Environmental Specialist

Are you looking for a role that will challenge you?

Would you like to make a difference in the Environment?

If you answered yes, our Whiteshell Laboratories (WL) site located near **Pinawa, Manitoba** is looking for an **Environmental Specialist **- Onsite**. The Environmental Specialist will work within the Environmental Management Branch to deliver the Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL) Environmental Protection Program. The Branch works with several internal customers and external stakeholders. Does this peek your interest? If you answered yes, then this may be the job for you

**What will you be doing?**

The Environmental Specialist assists the Environmental Protection Program Manager (WL) with full implementation of the AECL Environmental Management System (EMS) at WL, based on ISO 14001 principles
- Gathering and evaluating site radiological effluent monitoring results.
- Helping to diagnose the cause of excursions, promoting improvement, issuing letters or memos, reporting EMS performance, and writing summary reports as requested.
- Watching for situations that could cause unwanted releases, encouraging prevention, and investigating releases if they occur.
- Providing specialist support to facility managers, to help ensure that management’s responsibilities related to environmental protection are fulfilled.
- Contributing to the Annual Safety Report Occupational Rad Doses, Rad & Non-Rad Effluent Monitoring to help ensure it is issued to the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) by April 30 each year.
- Preparing and issuing the Annual Environmental Monitoring Report to CNSC by June 30 each year.
- Other duties as assigned by manager.

**What we are looking for**:
**Someone who has the ability to**:

- Good written, computer and oral communication skills.
- Keep Facility Manager and the Environmental Protection Program Manager informed of the finding and implications.
- Well versed in applicable federal, provincial and municipal regulations to help maintain continuous compliance.
- Become familiar with the requirements of AECL’s Environmental Management System; this knowledge would be considered an asset for a potential new employee.
- Working knowledge of radiation protection principles.
- Mature, well-organized individual, who enjoys working with a team in an operational and decommissioning setting.
- A keen sense of individual responsibility, and strong motivation to achieve group goals.
- Ability to work effectively with employees, tenants and facility management alike and able to present recommendations in a lucid and effective manner.
- Ability to manage competing deadlines.

**Experience**:

- A very good understanding of environmental management principles is essential.
- Familiarity with various environmental monitoring techniques would also be very useful.

**Education**:

- University degree (four years) in Environmental Studies or related scientific disciplines (including Physics and Chemistry) is required, in order to understand, interpret and convey the causes and environmental consequences of human activities.
- Less education, together with at least 10 years of equivalent post
- educational experience in environmental management, may be considered.

**Security Eligibility Requirement**
- Reliability Status with Site Access Security Clearance (SASC), which has a minimum requirement of 3 (three) years of verifiable history in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, United States and/or the United Kingdom.

**Working Conditions**:

- Must be willing to inspect and work anywhere on the WL site, and at any time. This is an operational and decommissioning environment (i.e.; laboratories, workshops, mining operations, and construction and demolition areas).
- Travel to other sites to attend meetings may be required.
- A heavy workload that requires good knowledge of environmental hazards and responsibilities.

**Why CNL?**

Does working with a team across Canada to advance nuclear science and technology for a clean and secure world speak to you? We're reinventing ourselves to be the pace setters, so we can lead the charge in solving the problems that matter, like building the next generation of clean nuclear and hydrogen energy solutions, developing new and better-targeted cancer treatments, and continuing to lead the world in environmental remediation.
- Compressed work week You get to work hard and enjoy more time with your family and friends. Work-life balance is an integral part of our overall health and well-being; at CNL, we value this.
- We offer a complete total rewards package:

- paid time off (vacation, sick, floater & personal days);
- benefits effective day one, that’s right no waiting period;
- tuition support;
- and a pension

**Do Our Priorities Resonate with You?**
- Clean energy for today and tomorrow.
- Restore and protect the Environment.
- Contribute to the health of Canadians.

CNL’s Whiteshell is located in the beautiful and historic municipality of Pinawa,