Are you looking for a meaningful career that makes a difference in your community and beyond? Are you an outdoors person who enjoys the benefits of small-town living? Our client offers exciting careers that provide you the opportunity to have a small-town lifestyle. As part of our team, you will work in a safety-first environment, supporting challenging and impactful nuclear projects like the Life Extension program. Ongoing training and development are part of every job, ensuring constant growth and skill-building potential.
Working at our client's company, you can enjoy the benefits of small-town living, outdoor adventures, and a rewarding career. As part of our progressive, diverse, and inclusive workplace, you will work in a safety-first environment, supporting challenging and impactful nuclear projects like our Life Extension Program and medical isotope production. Ongoing training and development are part of every job, offering constant growth and skill-building potential.
To help achieve our business plans, our client currently has an opportunity for a Section Manager, Construction Support, within our Major Component Replacement (MCR) division.
This is a permanent, full-time position that offers competitive compensation, a world-class benefits program, and a pension package. The position is located on site in Tiverton, Ontario, along the sunny shores of Lake Huron.
The Section Manager, Construction Support, provides construction expertise and services for all phases of the construction project, including:
- Possessing a ‘Safety First’ mindset. As safety is always at the forefront of we do, having a strong understanding of the Occupational Health and Safety Act
- Ensuring that engineering requirements are met, scope is controlled, schedule is defined, controlled and me and budget is defined, controlled and met
- Strong leadership abilities for coaching behaviours (Human Performance programs) to drive excellence in teams, peers and vendors
- Knowledge of the EPSCA collective agreements with building trades
- Risk and opportunities are defined, controlled and mitigated
- Tasks and deliverables are completed
The Section Manager, Construction Support, will carry out the standard accountabilities of a manager in the following areas:
Planning and Coordinating the Construction of Projects
Manages the construction tasks, deliverables, and field execution of projects, which include:
- Safety (conventional, radiological, nuclear, and environmental) of employees and the general public
- Defining construction staff requirements
- Coordinating and managing construction contracts
- Communication with the project team and stakeholder interface
- Ability to communicate to different levels of stakeholders in organization
- Determining construction methods and performing value-added assessments of construction methods, tasks and deliverables
- Ensure compliance with regulatory standards, best industry practices, building and safety codes and other relevant regulations
- Plan the efficient use of resources and coordination of required construction equipment
- Understand, interpret, review and approve complex drawings and documents, including participation in constructability review
- Develops, validates and manages construction performance baseline and construction Basis of Estimate (BOE), including construction scope, quality, deliverables, risk, budget, schedule and staff requirements
- Plan for storage, control and coordination of materials
- Ensure compliance with all relevant statutory, regulatory, licensing, and legal requirements
- Control construction expenditures within limitations of the project budget
- Benchmarks construction best practices and contribute to improvements in Human Performance and Lessons Learned Programs
- Ensure all necessary construction permits and licenses are secured
Monitoring, Controlling and Integrating construction services
- Promotes and upholds the Company's mission of Safety First, Our Number One Value, by ensuring construction tasks and deliverables comply with Safety (conventional, radiological, nuclear, and environmental) requirements
- Leads the execution of construction tasks and deliverables in accordance with the engineering design
- Builds strong cross-functional work relationships and communication within the project team (e.g., Engineering, Quality Management, Supply Chain, Environment, Health & Safety, Project Controls, Finance, Human Resources, Training and others) and stakeholders
- Identify opportunities for improvement, innovation and mitigation of risk, including emergent challenges that may prevent the achievement of construction tasks or deliverables
- Participates in design review sessions and meets regularly with other constructors, trades, contractors, vendors, architects, engineers, and other stakeholders to monitor and coordinate construction tasks and deliverables
Leadership
- Managing vendors for safety and quality
- Identifies staffing requirements for the project and hires fully qualified resources (in-house or contracted) to support project delivery
- Ensures tasks and deliverables are assigned to qualified organizations or contractors so that construction tasks and deliverables are performed in accordance with industry best practices, regulatory requirements, and Company requirements
- Strong knowledge of Company's policies and procedures is considered an asset
- Knowledge and understanding of the Company's Excellence Model
- Provides regular and appropriate performance, behaviour and developmental feedback to direct reports and ensures high quality staff is available to support assigned construction tasks and deliverables
- Guides and coaches construction staff on how to proceed when problems are encountered to ensure that they are resolved promptly and decisions and initiatives are in line with project's and Company's goals and strategies
- Monitors and appraises construction performance to ensure that effective corrective action has been taken for all identified opportunities and challenges. In situations where performance improvement initiatives do not correct deficiencies related to personnel behaviour or performance and recommends appropriate disciplinary action for worker
- Promotes a work environment characterized by innovation, creativity, teamwork, transparency, integrity and respect and works with the Construction team in developing processes that produce consistent, high-quality outcomes
- Provides construction staff with the necessary professional/technical development, resources and tools to ensure the project can be appropriately executed
- Owns the discipline specific training program and helps supervisors find the right balance between administrative efforts and in field time
- Ensure that supplemental workers have an appropriate level of oversight and engagement by personnel to ensure that performance is commensurate with that of station standards and expectations
- Establishes effective internal and external relationships with contractors, craft labour union representatives, suppliers, and the building trade council representatives
Education and Experience
- Qualified trade or construction management or a 4-year university degree in engineering or construction leadership with equivalent experience is necessary. Trade qualification is considered an asset
- A minimum of 6 years of construction experience (at least 3 of those years in nuclear power with responsibility for construction of complex safety systems) is required
- Experience delivering Construction Management services for major capital construction programs and projects within the expected scope, quality, schedule, and budget is required
- Experience in supervision of trades or crews with experience in a unionized environment and work assignment per jurisdictional practises
- Knowledge of Canadian Standard Association’s “Management Systems Requirements for Nuclear Power Plants” (N286-05) and all relevant Environmental and Health and Safety legislation
- Certification by the Project Management Institute (PMI) as a Project or Program Management Professional (PMP, PgMP) and/or demonstrated familiarity with the PMI Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK®) considered an asset