Section Manager, Structural Integrity

Kinectrics; Toronto; On-site; CAD 125,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Kinectrics is seeking a Section Manager, Structural Integrity in Toronto to lead a specialized team of engineers and designers focused on stress analysis for nuclear and conventional piping systems. The role reports to the Director, Site Engineering and Analysis and requires 8+ years of nuclear experience and strong project leadership.

Based in our Toronto office, you will drive technical oversight, ensure timely, within-budget delivery, and mentor staff while collaborating with multiple groups

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering; PEO status or eligible.
• 8+ years of relevant nuclear stress analysis and design experience.
• Experience leading multi-disciplinary teams across projects.
• Familiarity with CSA N285, CSA N289 and ASME/NB standards.

Responsibilities

• Oversee stress analysis activities for client projects.
• Lead and mentor a team of engineers and designers.
• Manage portfolio of stress analysis work within schedule and budget.
• Collaborate with design, testing and project management groups.
• Ensure QA through Nuclear QA Standards and HU tools.

Skills

Stress analysis

Leadership

Project management

Communication

Nuclear experience

ANALYSIS/FEA

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Professional Engineer Ontario (PEO) eligible

Tools

ANSYS Mechanical

PIPESTRESS

AutoPIPE

ANSYS CFX

AFT Impulse

Job description

Kinectrics is a wholly owned subsidiary of BWX Technologies focused on providing life cycle management services in the energy and utility sector. We develop innovative solutions for the global electricity and medical industries, helping empower a sustainable future. Trusted by clients worldwide, our employees provide expertise in engineering, testing, and inspection across a wide range of services. With offices worldwide and independent laboratories and testing facilities, we collaborate closely with clients to ensure utility assets perform safely, reliably, and efficiently throughout their entire life cycle.

Kinectrics takes pride in being consistently ranked as one of the best places to work in the energy and utility industry, where purpose and people mean as much as innovation and growth. That’s why we choose only the best and brightest to join us. To keep pace with the expanding energy and utility sector, Kinectrics has grown from a company of 300 to over 1,000 in only the last few years - and we aren’t looking to slow down. Join our diverse, supportive workplace for a rewarding career in the electricity industry.

Visit our website to learn more: www.kinectrics.com

The Opportunity

Position: Section Manager, Structural Integrity

Employment Type: Permanent

Employment Level: Senior

Location: 393 University Ave., Toronto, ON

Department: Design and Engineering Services

Reports to: Director, Site Engineering and Analysis

Hours per week: 40

Number Required: 1

Salary Range: $125,000 - $160,000 Exact compensation may vary depending on the individual experience and qualifications of each candidate. Applicants with greater or less than the minimum qualifications for this posted opportunity may be considered for alternate opportunities.

What We Offer

At Kinectrics, employees are recognized for their knowledge, experience, and contributions while working in a highly technical and challenging environment. Kinectrics puts you in the driver’s seat of your own career, setting you up alongside industry experts who will help you develop the skills essential to your professional growth in a dynamic, entrepreneurial, and rewarding work culture.

• Purpose: The work we do each day helps communities around the world. Find satisfaction in work that really matters, working alongside and as part of the best and brightest in the industry.
• Growth: To keep pace with Canada’s expanding energy and utility sector, we are growing more each day, which means more opportunities for you. We encourage our employees to grow alongside our company thanks to a number of significant training and personal development opportunities.
• Innovation: Our staff proudly develop innovations that push the industry forward.
• Diversity: The company is dedicated to promoting diversity in its workforce, up to and including the senior management level. Our diversity committee ensures we stay up to date on leading trends and best practices, creating a desirable workspace for each and every one of our employees.
• Total Compensation: Your talent deserves to be recognized. Kinectrics offers a competitive total compensation package unmatched by most industries throughout North America. Salary is just one component of the total rewards you will receive when working for Kinectrics. Other elements may also include pay for performance programs (merit pay and discretionary annual performance bonuses), comprehensive health benefits and wellness programs, membership discounts, employee referral bonus, eligibility for our pension plan, career development programs, and professional development/educational reimbursements.

The Site Engineering and Analysis Department is currently growing to respond to the needs of our nuclear portfolio including Bruce Power, OPG, New Brunswick Power and Cernavoda, among others. We are looking for a highly motivated and dynamic leader for our Section Manager, Structural Integrity role. The position provides an opportunity to lead a specialized team of engineers and designers and to manage a diverse portfolio of stress analysis activities through technical oversight of these professionals on various client projects.

Accountabilities: How You Will Make an Impact

• Oversight of stress analysis activities including:
• Understanding and assessing client problems to determine appropriate means of solution.
• Interfacing effectively with design team, equipment group and testing group to provide practical and effective solutions as per project requirements.
• Conducting technical assessments and emergent troubleshooting/engineering to support station engineering requests, refurbishment projects and operating unit (capital) projects.
• Solid working knowledge in the following areas:
• Finite element analysis using ANSYS Mechanical
• Carrying out nuclear (Class 1/2/3) and conventional (Class 6) piping analysis using commercial software packages such as PIPESTRESS or AutoPIPE.
• Assessing fluid dynamic problems such as flow induced vibrations or water hammer using software such as ANSYS CFX and AFT Impulse.
• Supporting fitness for service assessments per API579 guidelines.
• Acting as the relevant software QA primary holder or delegate as required within the section following Nuclear QA Standards such as CSA N286.7.
• Working with PMs within the department to deliver quality deliverables to our clients on time and within budget. Commit to providing timely and effective support to nuclear power stations as operational needs arise, ensuring responsiveness to urgent and evolving project requirements.
• Working knowledge of relevant Codes and Standards including but not limited to CSA N285, N289, ASME Section III, Section VIII and B31.1, staying current with developments within their field of expertise including latest codes.
• Lead the Kinectrics internal ASME Appendix XXIII NCA-4000 qualification program.
• Demonstrated knowledge of CANDU technology, strong understanding of nuclear power plant design and operation. Experience with CANDU and C6 refurbishment specifically Feeder and Fuel Channel replacement and assembly design employing GD&T is considered an asset.
• Identify opportunities for synergy & integration with other Kinectrics service line offerings.
• Manage quality processes and ensure best practices are followed through HU tools.

Performance and Leadership

• Leads by example and achieves results by effectively communicating technical job performance expectations.
• Demonstrated experience in preparation of reports, proposals, recommendations and presentations for internal and external clients.
• Facilitate internal relationships and effective use of resources, including integration with other Kinectrics pillars and for multidiscipline project teams.
• Proactively seek to enhance the resource base.
• Responsible for staffing and resourcing decisions, including scheduling and assigning work.
• Performs managerial functions such as hiring, promotion, performance reviews, pay increases, staff development. and disciplinary actions in accordance with established policies and procedures.
• Provide mentoring and development to employees and contribute to the recruitment of new staff.
• Identify growth and development opportunities for team members.

Financial

• Ensure business systems are updated and accurate, including revenue forecasts.
• Manage and motivate assigned staff and team members, achieving effective utilization of resources and prioritization. Ensure effective facility management, work allocation and safe operations.
• Accomplish financial objectives by forecasting requirements; preparing an annual operations budget; scheduling expenditures; analyzing variances; initiating corrective actions.
• Supports Director with maintaining service line profit and loss, material cost, labour, and bottom-line results.

Culture Development

• Drives a culture of high performance and safety where everyone is committed to and accountable for delivery of performance goals and operational KPIs, ensuring a client first culture.
• Provides training and skill development for both day-to-day operations as well as for growth and improved performance.
• Develop a culture of continuous improvement in processes and initiate/monitor corrective actions required to improve performance.
• Creates and maintains a positive culture focused on worker morale and corporate social responsibility.

Health, Safety and Compliance

• Drives a culture of safety first/right first time and that all engineering work is conducted in compliance with municipal, provincial, and federal safety, workplace, or environmental regulations that apply to the facility.
• Ensures quality of investigations to identify corrective action and non-recurrence.
• Accountable for supporting error free culture & staff behaviors by implementing human performance tools.

Management and Continuous Improvement

• Ensure that the business strategy is well developed and based on good market and competitor knowledge. The agreed strategy is to be clearly articulated and communicated.
• Develop a business model which drives efficiency into the business.
• Seeks to grow the scope of the product and service enhancements, and ensure that the physical resources (CAPEX, facilities etc.) are appropriately up to date.
• Create and deliver to a rigorous production schedule ensuring every product is delivered on-time.
• Build relationships with current and future customers while maintaining high customer satisfaction.
• Ensure effective project management within service line.
• Drive timely input to invoicing and collections processes.
• Meet personal and team billability targets.
• Ensure projects deliver to quality standards.

What You Need To Succeed

Education & Technical Competencies

• A bachelor’s degree (or higher) in Engineering. Professional Engineer of Ontario (PEO), or eligible for PEO status, with a passion for engineering.
• 8+ years’ relevant work experience, with preference given relevant prior mechanical design assist analyses as well as site & management experience in the nuclear industry.
• Familiarity with nuclear industry requirements for stress analysis and design engineering.
• Involvement in ASME and CSA N285 or ASME Section III technical code committees will be considered an asset.
• Strong understanding of nuclear power plant design and operation.
• Excellent understanding of Kinectrics Quality Assurance requirements and applicable industry codes and standards.

Selection Criteria

• Demonstrated leadership ability among a team of individuals with diverse skill sets aligning them to exceed organizational goals.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and demonstrated a high commitment to quality and delivering on client commitments, including experience in leading technical projects to successful conclusions.
• Proven ability to successfully manage large, complex, and multi-disciplinary projects and deliver on time and on budget.
• Ability to build and maintain working relationships with our customers and suppliers at the operating level.
• Excellent interpersonal, communication, and presentation skills.
• Strong team building, decision-making, mentorship, and people management skills.
• Innovative, enthusiastic, and ready to be part of our dynamic leadership team.

This role requires the successful candidate to complete the security clearance process. The security clearance process is conducted in accordance with applicable regulatory requirements of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) and the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) and may take up to 12 months to complete.

Kinectrics Inc is strongly committed to diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) and welcomes applications from all individuals. To learn more about our commitments please visit our diversity, equity and inclusion and indigenous relations pages.

Kinectrics welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.

This posting is for an existing vacancy.