Are you looking for a role where your leadership can directly influence the secure and effective management of complex waste programs? Can you see yourself guiding multidisciplinary teams, driving continuous improvement, and ensuring critical waste characterization activities support environmental remediation, decommissioning, and long-term waste management objectives? If so, the Manager, Waste Program Oversight role at CNL is key to enabling regulatory compliance and supporting important waste disposition decisions across CNL's operations. If this sounds like the opportunity you've been looking for,

What you will be doing

- Leading the Waste Characterization and Sample Management functions by setting priorities, allocating resources, and ensuring work is completed safely, efficiently, and in alignment with organizational objectives.
- Developing and maintaining the people, processes, equipment, and technical capabilities required to deliver waste characterization, gamma assay, laboratory coordination, and sample management services.
- Coaching and supporting multidisciplinary teams by providing leadership, resolving resource challenges, removing barriers, and driving high performance.
- Overseeing the planning and execution of waste characterization activities that support waste processing, environmental remediation, decommissioning, transportation, storage, and disposal initiatives.
- Ensuring characterization, sampling, reporting, and technical review processes are implemented consistently and meet quality, regulatory, and operational requirements.
- Monitoring program performance, technical quality, workload demands, and emerging risks to deliver accurate, defensible characterization products.




- Managing Sample Management Office operations, including sample tracking, chain-of-custody processes, laboratory coordination, analytical reporting, and records management.
- Coordinating sampling requirements, laboratory services, analytical schedules, and data delivery to support project and operational needs.
- Evaluating service levels, laboratory performance, and operational effectiveness to ensure timely and reliable support to waste management activities.
- Maintaining compliance with regulatory, quality assurance, and technical standards while implementing effective oversight and performance monitoring practices.
- Leading corrective actions, audits, assessments, and continuous improvement initiatives to strengthen operational efficiency, data quality, customer service, and long-term program sustainability.
- Supporting organizational priorities, special projects, and emerging operational needs while promoting a strong culture of safety, quality, and continuous improvement.
- Other duties as assigned by your manager.

What We Are Looking For

- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Environmental Science, Chemistry, Physics, or a related discipline from a recognized university.

- Experience

- Minimum ten (10) years of progressively responsible experience in waste management, radioactive waste characterization, environmental characterization,



nuclear operations, decommissioning, remediation, laboratory services, or related technical fields.
- Experience leading multidisciplinary teams within a regulated industrial or nuclear environment.
- Demonstrated experience managing technical programs, projects, or operational services with multiple stakeholders.
- Experience supporting regulatory compliance, quality assurance programs, and technical governance.
- Experience overseeing characterization activities, laboratory services, analytical data interpretation, or waste disposition programs.

- Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

- Demonstrated leadership and people management skills, including the ability to set clear expectations, reinforce standards, coach leaders and employees, manage performance, and support the development of a high-performing technical organization.
- Strong organizational and resource management skills with the ability to prioritize competing demands, balance workloads, allocate resources effectively, and support successful delivery of multiple programs and projects simultaneously.
- Strong understanding of management systems, technical governance, quality assurance, records management, and performance monitoring within a regulated operating environment.
- Demonstrated ability to identify organizational risks, monitor functional health, remove execution barriers, and implement corrective actions to improve performance and compliance.
- Strong analytical, critical-thinking, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to evaluate technical, operational, and organizational information and make sound decisions.
- Excellent verbal, written, an

📌 Manager, Waste Program Oversight (Pinawa)
🏢 Canadian Nuclear Laboratories
📍 Pinawa