Radiation Protection Specialist

We are seeking a highly skilled Radiation Protection Specialist to join our team at Canadian Nuclear Laboratories. As a key member of our organization, you will play a critical role in ensuring the safe and efficient operation of our facilities.

• Provide Radiological Protection Advice: Offer expert guidance to supervisors and staff on radiological protection controls for in-field work activities.
• Direct Contamination Monitoring: Supervise the work of contamination monitors in radiation survey and contamination control work.
• Conduct Routine Radiation Surveys: Perform daily routine radiation surveys, posting and marking radiation caution signs at points of high radiation.
• Ensure Radiation Safety: Take swipe checks at intervals during the day on floors, walls, benches, fume hoods, etc., and in the case of contaminated areas ensure that footwear and clothing of personnel in the area are free from activity and the area is isolated until cleaned.
• Identify and Mitigate Radiation Hazards: Maintain sufficient understanding of all operations being carried out in a working area, to foresee radioactivity hazards that may lead to the spread of contamination or affect the life and health of employees in the working area and initiate any desirable control measures in addition to those normally established.
• Exercise Judgment and Provide Guidance: Exercise judgment in offering advice requiring clear differentiation between situations where considerable modification of suggestion and compromise is acceptable and situations where the radiation control requirements must be considered in the nature of Company policy directives.
• Assume Responsibility for Radiation Hazard Control: Assume responsibility for radiation hazard control throughout the site and when on shift.
• Communicate Effectively: Inform immediate supervision of any unusual condition and of the action taken to combat this condition.
• Discuss Radiation Problems: Discuss radiation problems with employees in the working area and present recommendations in a convincing and persuasive manner to all personnel with whom they come in contact in the course of their duties.
• Maintain Records: Maintain records.
• Investigate Radiation Control Problems: Carry out investigations of radiation control problems, to construct special equipment required for investigations and to carry out technical work associated with personnel, air, soil and plant effluent monitoring programs.
• Perform Other Duties: Perform other duties as assigned by your manager.

• Education: Graduation from a recognized institute of advanced technology in a field relevant to the position, or equivalent formal education. OR Secondary School Graduation Diploma or equivalent and normally has more than 3 years pertinent experience or the equivalent in experience, additional education and/or training.
• Experience: Experience in the nuclear industry is preferred.
• Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:
  • Work effectively with all groups of personnel.
  • Recognize and respond appropriately to customers' and stakeholders needs.
  • Be a self-starter and have the ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
  • Possess a high sense of individual responsibility.
  • Possess the ability to improvise and to deal adequately with rapidly changing conditions.
  • Be tactful and diplomatic, able to work effectively with employees of other branches, and be able to present recommendations in a clear and effective manner.
  • Bilingual (English/French) essential.
• Security Clearance Eligibility Required: Reliability Status with Site Access Security Clearance (SASC), which has a minimum requirement of 3-5 years of verifiable history in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the United States and/or the United Kingdom.

• Physical Demands: Have the ability to cope with heights and confined spaces and hot/cold temperatures.
• Industrial Setting: Be able to meet physical demands of this position.
• Work Environment: Industrial setting, indoors and/or outdoors in all weather conditions.