Director, Waste Characterization

Kinectrics is a wholly owned subsidiary of BWX Technologies focused on providing life cycle management services in the energy and utility sector. We develop innovative solutions for the global electricity and medical industries, helping empower a sustainable future. Trusted by clients worldwide, our employees provide expertise in engineering, testing, and inspection across a wide range of services. With offices worldwide and independent laboratories and testing facilities, we collaborate closely with clients to ensure utility assets perform safely, reliably, and efficiently throughout their entire life cycle.

Kinectrics takes pride in being consistently ranked as one of the best places to work in the energy and utility industry, where purpose and people mean as much as innovation and growth. That’s why we choose only the best and brightest to join us. To keep pace with the expanding energy and utility sector, Kinectrics has grown from a company of 300 to over 1,000 in only the last few years - and we aren’t looking to slow down. Join our diverse, supportive workplace for a rewarding career in the electricity industry.

Visit our website to learn more: www.kinectrics.com

The Opportunity

Position: Director of Waste Characterization

Employment Type: Permanent

Employment Level: Senior

Location: Canadian Nuclear Laboratories, Chalk River, Ontario

Reports to: Vice President of CNL

Hours per week: 40

Number Required: 1

What We Offer

• Purpose: The work we do each day helps communities around the world. Find satisfaction in work that really matters, working alongside and as part of the best and brightest in the industry.
• Growth: To keep pace with Canada’s expanding energy and utility sector, we are growing more each day, which means more opportunities for you. We encourage our employees to grow alongside our company thanks to a number of significant training and personal development opportunities.
• Innovation: Our staff proudly develop innovations that push the industry forward.
• Diversity: The company is dedicated to promoting diversity in its workforce, up to and including the senior management level. Our diversity committee ensures we stay up to date on leading trends and best practices, creating a desirable workspace for each and every one of our employees.
• Total Compensation: Your talent deserves to be recognized. Kinectrics offers a competitive total compensation package unmatched by most industries throughout North America. Salary is just one component of the total rewards you will receive when working for Kinectrics. Other elements may also include pay for performance programs (merit pay and discretionary annual performance bonuses), comprehensive health benefits and wellness programs, membership discounts, employee referral bonus, eligibility for our pension plan, career development programs, and professional development/educational reimbursements.

Accountabilities: How You Will Make an Impact

• Leads and manages the waste characterization process, including procedures for sampling, packaging, shipment, and analyses of waste to determine the best pathway to disposal.
• Uses NDA and NDE methods when appropriate.
• Ensures that waste characterization does not inhibit disposal of waste and that cleanup occurs.
• Assists in developing and implementing strategies to accelerate achievement of end states, enabling long-term planning and reductions in liability and risk.
• Helps develop schedules for characterization activities to align with mission milestones established in the Annual Program of Work and Budget.
• Writes, revises and reviews characterization and operational documents such as Data Quality Objectives, Waste Characterization Plans, Characterization Work Plans, Operating Procedures, Project Documentation and Training Plans.
• Assists in development of an intermediate-level waste certification process and subsequent relevant training for waste characterization specialists.
• Leads analysis of data using specialized software to present accurate and concise information about the characteristics and management options for waste.
• Ensures sufficient resources and appropriate job roles are in place to fulfill the mission and work with senior management to develop a creative and proactive plan to recruit and retain qualified personnel.
• Helps the VP, DWM, and other waste program staff to break down and address problems and challenges, focusing on a proactive approach that anticipates potential risks and prepares mitigation in advance.
• Fosters a strong nuclear safety culture that emphasizes to employees the critical role they play in protecting each other’s health and safety as well as the public and the environment.
• Helps build a culture of transformation that f