Nuclear Criticality Safety Program Officer

6 months ago

Chalk River, Canada Canadian Nuclear Laboratories Full time

Are you looking for a role that will challenge you? If you answered yes, our Chalk River location is looking for a Nuclear Criticality Safety Program Officer to provide the expert leadership, direction, and technical infrastructure necessary to ensure that operations involving fissionable material are performed safely, and in compliance with the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission regulations for Nuclear Criticality Safety. Can you see yourself being part of a team that possess an equal balance of the technical skills necessary to perform criticality safety analyses, and the interpersonal skills necessary to develop strong, positive relationships with operations staff, and to work collaboratively with the team to solve complex problems? If you answered yes, then this may be the job for you

**What you will be doing**
- Keeping up-to-date with changes in Nuclear Criticality Safety regulatory requirements and maintain expertise in the requirements for implementing Nuclear Criticality Safety regulations at Canadian Nuclear Laboratories.
- Interface with Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission staff.
- Reviewing both regulatory and technical documentation related to Nuclear Criticality Safety.
- Supporting the development and maintenance of Nuclear Criticality Safety Program documentation.
- Delivering Nuclear Criticality Safety training to operations staff.
- Interacting with customers to provide oversight and expert regulatory and technical guidance and support (including existing operations, decommissioning and waste management projects, input to the design of new facilities, and emergency preparedness).
- Developing concise and unambiguous material limits and operational rules based on the supporting criticality safety analysis.
- Developing clear, logical, and well-written documentation of the nuclear criticality safety case.
- Supporting the development and execution of reviews and assessments of the Nuclear Criticality Safety Program.
- Establishing plans to meet prescribed objectives and carry out activities in accordance with the established plans.
- Developing and author documentation demonstrating that operations involving fissionable material will remain subcritical under all normal and credible abnormal conditions.
- Interacting with the customer to ensure that the operations are well-understood.
- Interacting with other service providers required to develop the nuclear criticality safety case.
- Performing rigorous technical analysis demonstrating that all normal and credible abnormal conditions will be subcritical. This may include modelling operational activities and experiments using verified and validated computer codes (such as SCALE or MCNP) and performing post-processing and analysis of the results.

**What we are looking for**:

- Technical experience in Nuclear Criticality Safety would be considered an asset.
- Experience in the nuclear industry (particularly in a compliance-related environment) would be considered an asset.
- Ability to work effectively in a highly regulated environment.
- Strong oral communication and interpersonal skills.
- Exceptional written communication skills (technical writing is a significant component of this position).
- Ability to develop and maintain specialized scientific knowledge of nuclear criticality safety including nuclear data and related libraries, processes and procedures.
- Ability to plan and prioritize tasks to ensure deliverables are met on schedule and to work both independently and in a team environment.
- Proficient use of software such as MS Excel, MS Word, and MS PowerPoint.
- Proficient in the use of software such as MCNP and SCALE.
- Nuclear-related experience would be considered an asset.
- Minimum, a Bachelors (Honour) in Engineering, Physics or Science from a university of recognized standing.
- Security clearance eligibility required: Level 2 Secret which has a minimum requirement of 7 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”.

**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.

**We offer a complete total rewards package**:

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

**Location**:
**About CNL**:
**Our Priorities**:

- Clean energy for today and tomorrow.
- Restore and protect the Environment.
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