Team Lead, Property Remediation and Restoration

Canadian Nuclear Laboratories; Port Hope; On-site; CAD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid time off

Benefits effective Day One

Tuition support

Defined-benefit / defined-contribution

Job summary

Canadian Nuclear Laboratories in Port Hope, Ontario, invites applications for a Team Lead, Property Remediation & Restoration to guide multidisciplinary teams, manage budgets, schedules, and risk, and deliver a major environmental remediation program in a highly regulated setting.

You will mentor project professionals, drive safety, quality, and stakeholder engagement, and partner with contractors, regulators, and internal teams to execute remediation and restoration initiatives from planning

Qualifications

• Minimum of ten (10) years of progressively responsible project experience in a senior project or team leadership role.
• Experience supporting large-scale construction, remediation, restoration, or infrastructure projects.
• Experience managing teams, budgets, schedules, contracts, and project performance in complex, multi-stakeholder environments.
• Experience working with contractors, consultants, designers, regulators, and project stakeholders.
• Experience applying project management principles throughout the project lifecycle from planning through execution and closeout.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of remediation, restoration, and project coordinators to support successful project delivery.
• Plan, schedule, budget, and monitor risk to support remediation projects.
• Collaborate with contractors and stakeholders to identify challenges and implement solutions.
• Develop execution strategies, scopes of work, budgets, and risk mitigation plans.
• Report project status, risks, and issues to management and partners.
• Interface between engineering, design, remediation, and restoration activities.
• Review technical docs, work packages, and remediation plans.
• Assist with procurement activities and contractor site visits.
• Attend meetings and coordinate field execution activities.
• Monitor progress to ensure alignment with project objectives.

Skills

Leadership

Project management

Budgeting

Scheduling

Risk management

Stakeholder management

Contract administration

Mentoring

Communication

Regulatory compliance

Education

Diploma in Construction Project Management or Engineering

Job description

Are you looking for a role that will challenge you? Can you see yourself as a Team Lead, Property Remediation & Restoration, helping deliver one of Canada's largest environmental remediation projects while leading multidisciplinary teams, mentoring project professionals, and driving successful project outcomes? Do you enjoy balancing technical, operational, and leadership responsibilities while working in a complex, highly regulated environment where safety, quality, and stakeholder engagement are critical to success? If you answered yes, then this may be the job for you!

What you will be doing!

• Leading a team of remediation, restoration, and project coordinators to support successful project delivery.
• Supporting the execution of remediation and restoration projects through planning, scheduling, budgeting, risk management, and performance monitoring.
• Collaborating with contractors and project stakeholders to identify challenges and implement practical solutions.
• Participating in developing project execution strategies, scopes of work, budgets, schedules, and risk mitigation plans.
• Reporting project status, progress, risks, and emerging issues to management and project partners.
• Supporting the interface between engineering, design, remediation, and restoration activities.
• Reviewing constructability assessments, technical documentation, work packages, and remediation plans.
• Assisting with procurement activities, contractor site visits, tender evaluations, and project award processes.
• Attending construction and project meetings and supporting the coordination of field execution activities.
• Monitoring technical progress on engineering, design, and contractor work activities to ensure alignment with project objectives.
• Coordinating lessons learned activities and supporting continuous improvement initiatives.
• Assisting with developing, training, coaching, and mentoring Project Coordinators and project staff.
• Supporting the establishment and management of project controls, budgets, schedules, and reporting systems.
• Tracking project milestones, financial performance, schedules, and key deliverables.
• Supporting workforce planning, performance management, and the assignment of work to internal and external resources.
• Promoting a strong safety culture and ensuring compliance with all applicable safety, radiation protection, and organizational requirements.
• Acting on behalf of management, as required, to support project and operational activities.

• Other duties as assigned by your manager.

What we are looking for:

• Education
  • Diploma from an accredited college in Construction Project Management, Engineering, or a related discipline.
  • Equivalent combinations of education, training, and experience may be considered.
• Experience
  • Minimum of ten (10) years of progressively responsible project experience in a senior project or team leadership role.
  • Experience supporting large-scale construction, remediation, restoration, or infrastructure projects.
  • Experience managing teams, budgets, schedules, contracts, and project performance in complex, multi-stakeholder environments.
  • Experience working with contractors, consultants, designers, regulators, and project stakeholders.
  • Experience applying project management principles throughout the project lifecycle from planning through execution and closeout.
• Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
  • Demonstrated leadership experience in managing multidisciplinary teams within construction, remediation, or infrastructure project environments.
  • Demonstrated project management expertise across scope, cost, schedule, quality assurance, communications, human resources, risk, procurement, and integration management.
  • Strong planning, budgeting, resource management, organizational, and time management skills.
  • Proven ability to build collaborative relationships with contractors, consultants, regulators, stakeholders, and project teams.
  • Demonstrated experience managing project risks, challenges, and competing priorities in fast-paced environments.
  • Strong negotiation, contract administration, and stakeholder management skills.
  • Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively with executive leadership, project teams, contractors, and external stakeholders.
  • Proven ability to mentor, coach, motivate, and develop employees and project professionals.
  • Applied knowledge of construction practices, remediation projects, restoration activities, and project delivery methodologies.
  • Demonstrated ability to analyze technical information, make risk-informed decisions, and resolve complex project issues.
  • Strong verbal, written, presentation, and reporting skills.
  • Demonstrated commitment to safety leadership, environmental stewardship, regulatory compliance, and continuous improvement.
• 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. CNL implements security screening in accordance with the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat's “Standard on Security Screening” and the “Policy on Government Security.”

Working Conditions:

• Working schedule: Five (5) days per week, seven and a half (7.5) hours per day for a thirty-seven and a half (37.5) hour work week.

Why CNL?

Does the idea of working with a dynamic team across Canada to advance nuclear science and technology for a clean and secure world excite you? At CNL, we’re reinventing ourselves to be industry leaders—pioneering solutions to the problems that matter most.

From building the next generation of clean nuclear and hydrogen energy technologies, to developing targeted cancer treatments, to continuing our global leadership in environmental remediation—we are driven by impact, innovation, and purpose.

What We Offer: A Total Rewards Package

We believe in taking care of our people. Here’s what you can expect as part of our team:

• Paid time off: vacation, sick, personal, and floater days
• Benefits effective Day One – no waiting period
• Tuition support to help you keep learning and growing
• A defined-benefit pension plan or a defined-contribution pension plan, depending on your employee group, to support your long‑term financial security

Do Our Priorities Resonate with You?

• Delivering clean energy for today and tomorrow
• Restoring and protecting
• Contributing to the health of Canadians

If so, you’ll feel right at home at CNL.

Location: Onsite

Our Port Hope site is situated along the scenic shores of Lake Ontario, just east of Toronto. The community is rich in history, with vibrant downtown shops, restaurants, and nearby trails and parks. Living and working here offers the perfect blend of small-town charm and easy access to urban amenities.
Please note: This is a fully onsite position based at our Port Hope location, Ontario.

Our Commitment to Equity, Diversity & Inclusion

At CNL, we are committed to fostering an environment that promotes equity, diversity, and inclusion. We celebrate and welcome employees, stakeholders, and partners of all backgrounds and identities. Click here to read all about it!

We are proud to uphold a workplace culture grounded in our Core Values:

• Respect
• Teamwork
• Accountability
• Safety
• Integrity
• Excellence

CNL is an equal opportunity employer. If you require accommodation during any phase of the hiring process, please let us know via [e-mail]. All requests will be handled with confidentiality.

The CNL Historic Waste Program Management Office and the Port Hope Area Initiative projects are situated on the traditional lands of the Williams Treaties First Nations, specifically the Gunshot Treaty negotiated between the Crown and Mississauga Nation during the 1780s and represented today by the Williams Treaties First Nations. The Mississauga Nations are also signatories to various 18th and 19th century treaties that covered lands in different parts of south-central Ontario. In 1923, the Mississauga First Nations and the Chippewa First Nations consisting of Rama, Beausoleil and Georgina Island signed the Williams Treaties and together, over 90 years later in June 2018, joined to ensure that their rights and the relationship with these lands are respected through a renewed agreement with Canada and the province of Ontario. The area in which we are situated is also home to Indigenous Peoples from across the region and Canada. CNL is grateful to have the opportunity to work on these traditionally and culturally significant lands and waterways.