Nuclear Projects Manager: Refurbishment & Readiness Lead

Ontario Power Generation Inc.; Pickering; On-site; CAD 111,000 - 161,000; Full time

Job summary

Ontario Power Generation Inc. is seeking a dynamic Manager, Projects to lead refurbishment planning across Engineering, Operations, and Maintenance, ensuring safe, predictable project execution and regulatory compliance.

The role coordinates cross-functional stakeholders, manages scope, schedules, and readiness, and drives improvements in work planning, scheduling, and governance through data-driven processes. Ontario-based leadership development and a strong safety culture are emphasized.

Qualifications

• Post-secondary education in Engineering, Project Management, Business Administration or a related technical field. PMP certification is considered an asset.
• Minimum of 5 years’ progressive experience in project management, work management, maintenance planning, preferably in nuclear, utility, energy, or other highly regulated industry
• Minimum of 3 years’ experience in a leadership role, specifically leading multidisciplinary teams.
• Strong knowledge of project controls and work-management practices, including scope definition, work packaging, scheduling, resource planning, risk management, cost and progress reporting, and constraint management.
• Experience supporting large, complex refurbishment, outage, construction, or asset-management programs, with the ability to manage competing priorities and deliver against demanding schedule commitments.
• Proven commitment to safety, quality, regulatory compliance, and continuous improvement in a high-hazard or highly regulated operational environment.
• Strong communication, stakeholder-management, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to influence decisions, resolve cross-functional issues, and provide clear updates to senior leadership.

Responsibilities

• Lead Integrated Work Management Planning: Develop and execute integrated work-management strategies for refurbishment scope, ensuring work is properly defined, prioritized, sequenced, and aligned with station outage and project milestones.
• Manage Project Scope, Schedule, and Readiness: Oversee planning and readiness of assigned refurbishment work packages, including scope definition, work order quality, materials availability, engineering inputs, permits, access requirements, and execution constraints.
• Coordinate Cross-Functional Stakeholders: Partner with Engineering, Maintenance, Operations, Supply Chain, Radiation Protection, Nuclear Safety, Quality, Project Controls, and contractors to resolve interfaces and ensure work can proceed safely and efficiently.
• Drive Schedule Performance and Constraint Removal: Monitor critical-path activities, emerging schedule risks, backlog, and productivity performance; lead timely escalation and removal of constraints affecting planned work execution.
• Ensure Excellence in Nuclear Safety and Regulatory Compliance: Reinforce a strong nuclear safety culture and ensure all work-management activities comply with applicable regulatory requirements, station procedures, quality standards, ALARA principles, and environmental obligations.
• Provide Leadership to the Work Management Team: Lead, coach, and develop project and work-management personnel; establish clear accountabilities, performance expectations, and succession capability while fostering a collaborative, high-performing team environment.
• Optimize Work Processes and Digital Tools: Champion continuous improvement in work planning, scheduling, reporting, and governance processes. Use performance data and work-management systems to improve work package quality, predictability, and execution efficiency.
• Manage Performance Reporting, Risk, and Governance: Establish and maintain effective project controls, including status reporting, key performance indicators, risk registers, recovery plans, and management reviews. Provide clear, timely updates to senior leadership on progress, issues, decisions, and forecast outcomes.

Skills

Communication

Stakeholder management

Problem-solving

Leadership

Education

Post-secondary education in Engineering/PM/Business Administration

PMP certification

Job description

Ontario Power Generation Inc. is seeking a dynamic Manager, Projects to lead refurbishment planning across Engineering, Operations, and Maintenance, ensuring safe, predictable project execution and regulatory compliance.

The role coordinates cross-functional stakeholders, manages scope, schedules, and readiness, and drives improvements in work planning, scheduling, and governance through data-driven processes. Ontario-based leadership development and a strong safety culture are emphasized.