Technical Manager, Energy Systems and Emerging

3 weeks ago

Chalk River, Canada Canadian Nuclear Laboratories Full time

The vision of the Advanced Reactors Directorate (ARD) is to be Canada’s hub for innovative advanced reactor science and technology, developing solutions that enable affordable, flexible and clean nuclear energy supporting net-zero goals and bringing energy security to all Canadians.

We engage with our customers and partners to implement science and technology solutions that enable advanced reactor development, deployment, and operations.

The Technical Manager for Energy Systems and Emerging Technologies, will provide technical leadership and guidance on the technical program and will work with a diverse team of engineers, scientists, and other technical experts. Expertise in energy systems will allow the Technical Manager to set scientific priorities and develop strategies for research and development projects related to a range of integrated energy system research, emerging technologies and CNL’s Clean Energy Demonstration, Innovation, and Research (CEDIR) Initiative. This role must maintain internal and external relationships, seek external knowledge, and stay situationally aware of advances in the field to ensure that our organization remains at the forefront of this critical work. The role includes responsibility for developing commercialization opportunities with respect to energy systems and emerging technologies research and analyses as well as broader academic and industrial collaborations.
- Key focus areas for this role will be aligned with ARD capabilities including:
1) Energy Systems
- Oversight of the Clean Energy Demonstration, Innovation, and Research (CEDIR) Initiative
- Feasibility studies, systems & scenario analysis
- CNL’s hybrid energy system optimization (HESO) tool
- Nuclear economics
- Fuel cycle analysis
- High performance computing

2) Emerging technologies
- use of nuclear technologies in space, fusion and research reactors

The Technical Manager supports the Directorate Mission by providing high-level technical input to the scientific research programs in the Directorate. The purpose of this role is to establish scientific priorities, develop strategies and maintain internal/external relationships in the respective areas directly related to the Directorate’s strategic focus and to be situationally aware of advances in the relevant fields that could further enhance and drive innovation.

**DUTIES**
Functions and responsibilities include but are not limited to the following:

- Support the Directorate in the development and execution of the Mission strategy
- Contribute to the S&T Vision and Mission for CNL
- Challenge and provide advice to senior management on strategy based on knowledge of the technical area, environment, policy, customers, and marketplace
- Advise senior management on pursuit of strategic research growth by anticipating client and market needs - create a vision of the future
- Define, develop and lead technical collaborations that deliver growth in programs and capabilities
- Develop commercialization opportunities to drive program growth and CNL’s impact
- Contribute to the development and oversight of the Directorates intellectual property strategy
- Working as part of the management team, provide technical leadership for the Directorate
- Seek and promote external interactions and knowledge for promoting relationships and leverage for the Directorate
- Model integrity, leading by example. Demonstrate and communicate the expectation that everyone shall behave in a manner consistent with a healthy, safety and security culture
- Build and maintain a climate of trust. Act with transparency, respect, and fairness with all team members and stakeholders
- Promote/initiate an environment that values willingness to implement new approaches to problem solving
- Support CNL in the safe, secure, and compliant operations
- Encourage and participate in facility/laboratory walk-downs
- Promote a respectful work environment such that reporting safety issues and concerns is encouraged and issues are resolved
- Support in nurturing, guiding, and advancing scientific capabilities - staff, facilities/labs, and equipment
- Support the successful execution of projects and programs to meet Mission requirements
- Provide input and recommendations for the establishment of a product and services strategy
- Negotiating Scope of Work and deliverables with internal/external stakeholders
- Propose the prioritization of scopes of work (i.e., what would achieve the overall strategy)
- Optimize alignment of activities with stakeholder expectations
- Collaborate with internal/external stakeholders to foster innovation, perform work, and help develop capture strategy, promotion of S&T, outreach, proposal development, and stakeholder/customer engagement strategy

**QUALIFICATIONS**
- Masters and 10 years or more experience or Bachelors and 15 years or more experience acceptable or equivalent
- PhD preferred
- Experience and/or expertise with many of the Directorate’s technical are

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