Project Manager, Tooling

AtkinsRéalis; Pickering; Hybrid; CAD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working culture

Training and development programs

Flexible time-off

Job summary

CanAtom Power Group in Pickering, Ontario, is seeking a Project Manager, Tooling to lead engineered tooling scope across design, fabrication, testing and readiness, ensuring cost and schedule targets. Reporting to the Deputy Project Director, Tooling, you will manage tooling delivery with vendors and OPG stakeholders, uphold safety and quality, and foster a ONE TEAM culture across CanAtom and partners.

The role involves extensive travel between project offices and vendor shops, with a hybrid

Qualifications

• Minimum 10 years of nuclear industry experience.
• Strong background in retube tooling designs and CANDU fuel channel design.
• Experience leading a technical team in a project-centric environment.
• Ability to hold Nuclear Energy Worker (NEW) status.
• Excellent organizational and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Execute work safely, manage schedule, cost, and client communications.
• Deliver engineered tooling projects from design to readiness.
• Interface with vendors and OPG stakeholders for tooling delivery.
• Maintain ONE TEAM culture with CanAtom and partners.
• Drive continuous improvement and innovation.
• Manage tooling resources across matrix Engineering, Procurement, and Construction.
• Ensure fiscal performance and cost reduction while maintaining quality and schedule.
• Interact with customers, suppliers, and project personnel.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder management

Nuclear industry know-how

Safety culture

Leadership

Cost control

Education

Engineering degree preferred

Job description

Overview

CanAtom Power Group is the joint venture between AtkinsRéalis and Aecon which has been awarded contracts with Ontario Power Generation (OPG) for various Retube and Feeder Replacement (RFR) scopes at both Darlington and Pickering B. CanAtom is looking for a Project Manager, Tooling.

Reporting to the Pickering RFBR Deputy Project Director, Tooling, the PM shall be accountable for the assigned set of Engineered Tooling lifecycle to support delivery of tools, on schedule and on budget.

This position is accountable for the set of Engineered Tooling, generally along the following lines: Tooling requirements, concept and detailed design, fabrication, testing and readiness of new tooling. Also included is enforcement of accurate and workable cost and schedule estimates to support project requirements.

The Tooling design, fabrication, testing and readiness scopes will be performed at various locations including Montecorte, Pickering Project Offices and Tooling vendor shops.

Your role

• Responsibility for the execution of the work in terms of safety, project management strategies, schedule, cost, manpower and client communications.
• Responsible for an assigned set of engineered tooling, in terms of delivery of design, procurement, testing, refurbishment and readiness in alignment with cost and schedule. This includes interfacing with vendors and OPG stakeholders for documentation and other aspects of tooling delivery.
• Liaise and maintain collaborative relationships with key stakeholders, both internally within CanAtom, with the client and vendor partners. This means demonstrating the ONE TEAM culture both in words and actions.
• Drive a culture of continuous improvement and innovation.
• Ensure work is performed within quality program requirements.
• Ensure a strong nuclear safety culture is reinforced continuously.
• Ensures the tooling readiness process is implemented and adhered to.
• Interface with project controls to update cost and schedule reporting metrics.
• Support the Deputy Project Director, Tooling in executing the scope of RFBR Tooling, as required.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

• Manage all tooling resources required to successfully execute the assigned scope, using a matrix Engineering, Procurement, and Construction organization.

Fiscal Responsibility:

• Accountable for fiscal performance of assigned scopes/budgets. This includes developing creative solutions to reduce costs while maintaining quality and schedule.

Extent Of Public Contact:

• Customers, suppliers, CanAtom Partners.
• Project Managers, project personnel.
• Trades personnel, union business agents.

About you

• Engineering degree is preferred but not a requirement.
• Strong background in retube tooling designs, processes and CANDU fuel channel design.
• Minimum 10 years of nuclear industry experience.
• Demonstrated experience in organizing and leading a technical team to high performance in a project-centric environment.
• Strongly preferred candidate with at least 2+ yrs of Engineered Tooling understanding and experience.
• Strongly preferred candidate with familiarity with CANDU sites and work processes for performing work in CANDU containment structures.
• Extensive knowledge of nuclear project work, project management, estimating and employee relations required.
• Must have the ability to handle all matters in a confidential and professional manner.
• Excellent organizational, communication and customer relationship skills. A critical skill required for this position is the ability to clearly articulate an issue, the impact, and the steps to resolve.
• Negotiation and dispute resolution skills.
• Demonstrated oral and written communication skills.
• Must also have or be able to hold Nuclear Energy Worker (NEW) status.

Physical Demands:

• Various work locations in both field and office.
• Travel as necessary.

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