Facility Manager, Waste Treatment Centre

5 months ago


Chalk River, Canada Canadian Nuclear Laboratories Full time

The Facility Manager, Waste Treatment Centre (WTC), is accountable to the WTC Facility Authority to ensure that regulatory, safety, environmental, quality, emergency preparedness, and future planning requirements are met.

The responsibility includes all facilities stated in the WTC Facility Authorization Document and also a non-licensed facility, B217 (Rod Bay Water Storage).

**What you will be doing**:
The general responsibilities associated with the Facility Manager are defined in the Facility Authorization document as follows:

- Ensuring the Facility is operated in accordance with the most recent CNL approved revision of the Safety Analysis Report (SAR), WTC GDI, and the Facility Authorization document.
- Ensuring adequate technical support for the Facility operations.
- The appointment of all direct operating personnel.
- The appointment of the Nuclear Criticality Control Officer (NCCO).
- Approving Facility specific operating and work control procedures and any departure or deviation from approved procedures.
- Ensuring that unplanned events are investigated and internally reported.
- Authorizing return to normal operation after events where causes cannot be determined or corrective action cannot be completed immediately.
- Ensuring minimum staffing complement.
- Approving all modifications.
- Other responsibilities include:

- Ensuring the Facility is operated in accordance with the most recent CNL approved revision of the Safety Analysis Report (SAR), WTC GDI, and the Facility Authorization document.
- Obtaining criticality approvals and ensuring compliance.
- Approving integrated work control documents for the maintenance of safety-related systems.
- Approving non-routine operations, experiments and Facility modifications.
- Approving activities involving setting or serviceability of alarms or systems affecting Facility safety.
- Reviewing completed TAC permits to verify that systems and equipment important to safety have been adequately tested.
- Reviewing and approving all experimental/non-routine work proposals submitted to the Facility.
- Approving scope changes, within the limiting conditions for safe operations, to approved experimental/non-routine proposals.
- Managing and controlling of records in the WTC per Records Management.
- Defining formal interfaces and communication needs within the Facility.

**What we are looking for**:
**Education**:

- Honors Bachelor in Engineering or Science from a university of recognized standing or membership in an Engineering or Scientific professional organization authorized by statute to establish qualification for membership in that organization.

**Experience**:

- 10 years of experience in nuclear engineering, in diverse roles (e.g., operations, maintenance, safety assessment, design, quality assurance, radiation protection).
- Experience in nuclear liquid waste processing and management is an asset.

Abilities and Skills:

- Excellent verbal communication and technical writing skills.
- Ability to work effectively with personnel of varying disciplines.
- Experience leading others and achieving objectives through the efforts of those not necessarily in his/her sphere of control.
- Ability to adapt to rapidly changing demands or circumstances, and prioritizing accordingly in order to meet tight deadlines.
- Ability to direct the work of technical personnel.

Job/Industry Specific Knowledge:

- Sound knowledge of CNL’s Chalk River operations.
- Sound knowledge of industrial operations and safety codes.
- Sound knowledge of applicable regulatory requirements and documents.
- Knowledge of international codes and practices applicable to nuclear processing facilities is desirable.
- Sound knowledge of Facility design and construction, as well as applicable safety analyses and licensing-basis documents.
- Sound knowledge of CNL Radiation Protection requirements and practices.
- Sound knowledge of CNL Emergency Preparedness programs and the Facility’s Emergency response procedures.
- Sound knowledge of Nuclear Criticality Safety requirements and practices.
- Sound knowledge of CNL nuclear materials control.
- Sound knowledge of Operational Quality Assurance.

**Security clearance eligibility required: Reliability Status with Site Access Security Clearance (SASC), which has a minimum requirement of 3 years of verifiable history in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, United States and/or the United Kingdom. CNL implements security screening in accordance with the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat “Standard on Security Screening” and the “Policy on Government Security”.**

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