Engineering Director

2 months ago

Mississauga, Canada oilandgas.org.uk Full time
Job Description

Engineering Director

AtkinsRéalis is one of Canada's largest private sector nuclear engineering groups. We have been providing a wide range of services to the nuclear industry in Canada and around the world since for more than 60 years. We are proud to be the steward of Canadian CANDU nuclear technology.

The Engineering Director will play a pivotal role in the development of New Build opportunities, project engineering strategies, and Nuclear New Build roadmaps, for Small Modular Reactors (SMR), CANDU Reactors, and its supporting facilities.

This position involves overseeing engineering activities, ensuring compliance with regulatory standards, and driving innovation in plant design and construction. The ideal candidate will have extensive Front End Engineering Design (FEED) experience in industrial and major infrastructure projects related to nuclear facilities, oil & gas facilities, power generating facilities, or chemical processing facilities with strong knowledge in project management, and team leadership. Experience or understanding of the regulatory processes with the Impact Assessment Agency and the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission is valuable.

This role will be based in Mississauga, ON or Pickering, ON.

Your role within the team:

Leadership and Management:
  • Leading the engineering team, providing guidance, mentorship, and support.
  • Oversee the day-to-day engineering operations, ensuring projects are completed on time and within budget.
  • Foster a collaborative and innovative work environment.
  • Provide leadership and coaching to management roles and senior professional staff executing commercial and internal work packages and projects.
  • Be accountable for the performance and results of multiple related teams.

Project Oversight:
  • Manage the design, development, and implementation of projects.
  • Ensure all engineering activities comply with regulatory and industry standards and safety protocols.
  • Coordinate with cross-functional teams, including the internal organizations, client, sub-contractors, constructors, and operators, to ensure seamless project execution.

Technical Expertise:
  • Provide technical leadership to a multi-disciplinary team in the areas of design, engineering, and general consulting activities for New Build opportunities.
  • Stay updated with the latest advancements in New Build methodologies, nuclear technology and integrate new innovations into project designs.
  • Stay updated with latest applicable technical standards and regulatory requirements.
  • Conduct technical reviews and assessments to ensure the highest standards of quality and safety.

Regulatory Compliance:
  • Ensure all engineering activities adhere to local, national, and international regulatory requirements.
  • Liaise with regulatory bodies to obtain necessary approvals and certifications.
  • Develop and implement quality assurance and control processes.

Stakeholder Engagement:
  • Work closely with Project Managers and Project Directors to communicate engineering progress and technical details to stakeholders, including senior management, clients, and regulatory authorities.
  • Build and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders to support project goals.

Resourcing:
  • Work closely with Project Managers and Project Directors to forecast resource demands for the assigned work scope, including skills, capabilities, and durations.
  • Define the structure of the project engineering team for their scope of accountability, including reporting relationships.
  • Hire and release staff, secondees, and contractors from the team as required.
  • Negotiate with other Engineering Directors to optimize the use of available staff.
  • Provide oversight for onboarding of new staff and training.
  • Ensure qualified and appropriate staff are working on the project and are assigned work within their experience and skills.

Training and Mentorship:
  • Organize and direct the development of project-specific training courses as necessary.
  • Mentor and/or organize mentoring of staff to maintain and improve staff performance and capabilities.
  • Ensure all project training and qualification records are up-to-date, and required training and qualifications are completed/updated on time.

Project Objectives and KPI:
  • Help staff set SMART objectives aligned with project demands.
  • Work closely with Project Managers and Project Directors to track, analyze, and develop/execute plans to improve project targeted Key Performance Indicators and objectives.

Staff Performance and Performance Reviews:
  • Drive accountability by providing clear expectations and performance measures, meaningful feedback, recognizing and rewarding achievements, and taking disciplinary steps when warranted.
  • Develop and implement corrective measures to improve the performance of individuals.
  • Provide feedback and effective recommendations into functional hire/fire processes.
  • Work closely with Project Managers and Project Directors to manage project-related human resource issues and effectively resolve work performance problems as they relate to the project, working as appropriate with Functional Engineering.
  • Provide day-to-day interpretation and application of the negotiated agreements with bargaining agents as they affect the rights, obligations, and working conditions of employees.

Proposals:
  • Participate in the preparation of commercial and internal proposals and approve the technical content of proposals prepared under their direction.
  • Ensure compliance with technical standards, client and regulatory requirements.

Project Execution:
  • Provide overall technical direction for engineering work per the approved project scope and schedule.
  • Support the Project Director in execution of the day-to-day oversight activities.
  • Be responsible for meeting the QA program requirements and change control process.
  • Ensure that the deliverables from their team meet customer requirements specified in the contract and overall alignment with codes and standards.
  • Manage the overall project engineering change control process, ensuring the design is defined, controlled, verified, and that all design inputs and interfaces are complete, substantiated, and verified, and its configuration managed.
  • Be responsible for technical integration and interface control both within the projects across the various disciplines involved, and with the client.
  • Provide guidance, technical insights, supervision, and feedback to the Technical Managers that are part of their team.
  • Be responsible for technical deliverables budget, schedule, and quality.
  • Review and approve key technical documentation for the project, or phase of the project.
  • Monitor the technical quality of engineering deliverables for the project, or phase of the project.
  • Identify and propose improvements in the areas of the project - both proactively and in response to customer requirements.
  • Ensure security access requirements, including need-to-know, are implemented on a project.
  • Liaise with the Project Director and senior executives regarding the technical quality of subcontracted engineering services.
  • Liaise with external client engineering organization at the request of the Project Director regarding technical matters.
  • Communicate engineering issues and status to Senior Management.
  • Ensure technical integration between all project stakeholders.


Why choose AtkinsRéalis as an employer?

Because we offer:
  • The opportunity to work on various major projects for internal and external clients.
  • An exciting environment where work-life balance is important.
  • A wide array of learning and development opportunities.
  • Competitive pay, flexible benefits, an employee share plan, and a defined contribution pension plan.
  • A work environment focused on health and safety.


The ideal candidate:
  • Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Civil Engineering or a related field (master's or Ph.D. preferred).
  • Minimum of 15 years of experience in the nuclear, petrochemical, chemical processing, or power generation industries, with a focus on engineering and project management.
  • Extensive knowledge and experience in FEED is a must.
  • Experience or knowledge in hydrogen or heavy water production is considered a plus.
  • Experience or understanding of the regulatory processes with the Impact Assessment Agency and the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission is considered a plus.
  • P.Eng registration with PEO or equivalent required.
  • Highly motivated and results oriented self-starter with strong engineering and people management skills and experience.
  • Training experience to develop and execute increased process improvements through the development of programs to address the improvement of work control and efficiency practices.
  • Proven leadership experience in managing engineering teams and large-scale projects.
  • Broad understanding of SMRs and CANDU technologies and regulatory requirements is considered a plus.
  • Extensive exposure and experience with human performance tools for utilities to reduce the human error rate and subsequent lost generation and equipment damage.
  • Uses visionary qualities to look ahead and act on new opportunities and in full support of client goals.
  • Thinks with a global perspective in the internal and external environment seeking to provide enhanced value to clients.
  • People oriented with strong business acumen and an innate ability to establish a high degree of credibility with staff and clients.
  • Implements change, increases productivity, and enhances performance in response to budget parameters and client demands.
  • Uses strong business, technical, financial and logistical skills, combined with the ability to identify areas of opportunity to make bottom-line-oriented decisions that improve results and support long and short-term planning.
  • Establishes a strong presence and visibility as a senior leader.
  • Strong people leader who can motivate and engage a team.
  • Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
  • Excellent written and verbal communicator with superior interpersonal and relationship management skills.
  • Excellent problem-solving, communication, and interpersonal skills.
  • Strong negotiator, complex problem solver, influencer and decision maker.


Are you up for this challenge? Apply today and join our team to help engineer a Better Future for our Planet and its People.

At AtkinsRéalis, we seek to hire individuals with diverse characteristics, backgrounds, and perspectives. We strongly believe that world-class talent makes no distinctions based on gender, ethnic or national origin, sexual identity and orientation, age, religion, or disability, but enriches itself through these differences.

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