Canadian Licensing Technical Leader

**Job Description Summary**: The Canadian Licensing Technical Leader, Regulatory Affairs, will manage the work and provide technical leadership for a team of Licensing Engineers for the completion of various technical licensing work scopes assigned to support various projects, including new reactor licensing for the BWRX-300 Advanced Nuclear Projects, operating fleet licensing support, customer plant support on GE Hitachi (GEH) / Global Nuclear Fuels (GNF) nuclear methods, and working with GEH / GNF Engineering and Regulatory Affairs teams on major projects.

**Essential Responsibilities**

The Canadian Licensing Technical Leader, Regulatory Affairs, will report to the Canadian Licensing Manager, and manage the work and provide technical leadership for a team of Licensing Engineers for the following activities:

- Development of work plans and ensuring schedule adherence for all licensing deliverables while maintaining a high standard of quality.
- Reviewing and approving customer and regulatory deliverables to ensure high quality standards.
- Mitigating risks to deliverables and managing competing priorities on multiple projects.
- Adherence to all applicable procedures and to project-specific work plans and instructions.
- Identify and originate Condition Reports to drive continuous improvements as necessary.
- Ensure training of team members is up to date.
- Process documents in the Product Lifecycle Management tool including uploading quality records and supporting documentation and creating change actions with assigned reviewers and approvals.
- Support customer requests for preparation or review of unreviewed safety question determinations, including preparation of Technical Safety Evaluation Reports and working with internal teams coordinating licensing status of various fuel design changes and fuel and reactor methods changes.
- Interface with customers and regulatory personnel on regulatory issues, and to secure applicable permissions and approvals related to work scopes.
- Support engineering in assessing licensing impact and developing licensing strategies to mitigate licensing risks.
- Support the commercial team in the development of Licensing Proposals and responses to Requests for Information by prospective customers.

**Required Qualifications**
- Bachelor's Degree in a science or engineering discipline from an accredited university or college, with a minimum of 7 years of related professional work experience including:

- six (6) years of commercial operating or new proposed nuclear power plant experience
- two (2) years of experience leading or independently completing complex projects, and providing regulatory guidance / direction to contributing functions (i.e., Operations, Maintenance, Engineering, Analysis)

OR
- Master's Degree in a science or engineering discipline from an accredited university or college, with a minimum of 6 years of related professional work experience including:

- 3 years of commercial operating or new proposed nuclear power plant experience
- 2 years of experience leading or independently completing complex projects, and providing regulatory guidance / direction to contributing functions (i.e., Operations, Maintenance, Engineering, Analysis)

Additional Eligibility Qualifications:

- GE will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in Canada for this opening.
- Ability and willingness to obtain and maintain a site security clearance, including any required regulatory background check.

**Desired Characteristics**
- Technical knowledge in new nuclear plant design and/or licensing including knowledge of CNSC requirements
- Experience managing teams involved in licensing activities for operating and new nuclear power plant design, construction, commissioning, and operations
- Technical knowledge of one or more areas, such as nuclear fuel, operating plants, deterministic safety analyses, probabilistic safety assessments, etc.
- Working knowledge of advanced Small Modular Reactor light water reactor systems, fuel, or operations
- Experience and demonstrated effectiveness in working / communicating with regulatory and customer personnel
- Experience working with industry groups (i.e., NEI and Owners Groups) on nuclear licensing matters
- International licensing and/or technical nuclear power plant experience
- Excellent technical writing skills with the ability to create technical reports suitable for a wide range of audiences
- Effective interpersonal, communication, and facilitation skills
- Process skills related to coordinating and documenting complex technical documents
- Externally focused: takes action to enhance the reputation of the company / represents the company well at all opportunities
- Clear thinker: communicates messages clearly and concisely with the ability to make decisions with speed and accuracy based on the best available information / ability to sift through complex information and focus on critical few priorities
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