Compliance Advisor
Our Douglas Point location is looking for a Compliance Advisor to work with our Facilities Operations team. If you answered yes, then this may be the job for you! This position is to support the Facility Manager and Facility Authority in ensuring the facility's operation is compliant, as well as care and maintenance, and project delivery. The role is key to supporting the challenging decommissioning schedule in the facility while ensuring all compliance programs are integrated into the operation.
What will you be doing !
- Supporting the Facility Manager to build in-depth knowledge of the Facility and to provide an informed review of compliance or project delivery
review on behalf of the Facility Manager. - Monitoring compliance schedule and recording and tracking actions for correction.
- Reviewing of various documents for the Facility Operation and project delivery.
- Supporting delivery of compliance documents through contract or authoring as applicable.
- Preparing of reports required under the license and licensing documentation.
- Monitoring and reporting to the G1 Facility Authority on the effectiveness of implementing the CNL Compliance program through self-assessments, audits, and surveillance programs.
- Assisting with management of human resources at the Facility, including recruitment, training, assessment of performance, and ensuring employee safety.
- Ensuring that all activities (including those by internal CNL groups and external contractors) carried out in the Facility are planned, assessed in terms of possible hazards, and authorized.
- Having the authority to take appropriate action to rectify problem areas within the Facility and Stop Work, when it is deemed necessary.
- Maintaining the knowledge base of decommissioning expertise and ensuring that decommissioning expertise and experience gained are available to projects, operations, and contracts.
- Other duties as assigned by your manager.
- Supporting the Facility Authority by participating in Monthly CNSC Meetings.
- Reviewing high-level licensing documents (licensing basis, strategic licensing plan, Function Program Requirement Document, Program Description Document, and Management Control Procedure).
- Reviewing documents relative to license amendment and renewals.
- Completing the training and qualifications to act as Facility Manager.
- Performing the role of Facility Manager if required as a designate.
- Completing the training and qualifications to act as Facility Authority.
- Performing the role of Facility Authority if required as a designate
- Other duties as assigned by your manager.
What we are looking for :
- Education
- An engineering or science degree (or equivalent in education/training and experience).
- Experience
- Over fifteen (15) years of significant and varied experience in operating nuclear facilities or a combination of
experience in a regulatory environment - Experience leading others and achieving objectives through the efforts of those not necessarily in his/her
sphere of control - Experience with the licensing and approval of major projects through the Nuclear Safety & Control Act, CNSC Regulations, and a strong knowledge of the associated federal processes.
- Over fifteen (15) years of significant and varied experience in operating nuclear facilities or a combination of
- Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
- The ability to create and sustain a professional environment that fosters teamwork, continuous learning, stakeholder satisfaction, and a high level of personal accountability.
- Excellent written and verbal communication ability with a variety of organizations and levels.
- Ability to effectively communicate and interface with external groups, including the CNSC.
- Project management skills to ensure that critical activities are identified and planned for success.
- Strong leadership competency by demonstrating the following attributes:
- Strong interpersonal skills in working with management and staff of the organization and building a team approach.
- Ability to foster a team environment by understanding and managing group dynamics.
- Ability to solicit points of view, ideas and opinions from team members to help form decisions or plans in achieving organizational unit objectives.
- Demonstrate leadership/effective participation in significant change initiatives.
- Willingness to assume the responsibilities and accountabilities of the Facility Manager and the Facility
Authority (not concurrently). - Commitment to Canadian Nuclear Laboratories' vision and operating philosophies.
- High personal standards of performance and commitment to the safe operation of the facility.
- Ability to learn facility processes and operations to perform efficient reviews of deliverables.
- A broad understanding of the organization/business to ensure effective coordination with like organizations
and projects (CNL, AECL, external); able to effectively interface with senior management level
nationally/internationally. - Knowledge of the facility as demonstrated by the level of understanding of the following: Operating license for the facility; Safety and design basis of the facility; Facility safety-related systems and other systems required for the prevention and mitigation of damage or severe accidents; Industrial, environmental, radiation, waste management, and criticality safety requirements as established in CNL nuclear programs; Conservative approach toward nuclear and personnel safety.
- Familiar with the National Building Code, National Fire Code, Decommissioning Technology, OSH Program, and other relevant codes.
- Address safety issues, manage risk and liabilities, and protect the environment in a cost-effective manner.
- Must have a good understanding of the building and demolition process within a nuclear environment.
- Security Clearance Eligibility Required
- Reliability Status with Site Access Security Clearance (SASC), which has a minimum requirement of 3 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.”
- Reliability Status with Site Access Security Clearance (SASC), which has a minimum requirement of 3 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.”
Why CNL?
- Paid time off (vacation, sick, floater & personal);
- Benefits effective day one, that’s right, no waiting period;
- Tuition support
- and a pension!
- Clean energy for today and tomorrow.
- Restore and protect the Environment.
- Contribute to the health of Canadians.
CNL’s Douglas Point Prototype Reactor (which has now entered the dismantling phase of decommissioning ETA 2070) is located on the Bruce Power site in Bruce County on the east shore of Lake Huron in the Province of Ontario, near the municipality of Kincardine, 2.5 hours north and west of Toronto. The area has thriving lakeside downtown shops and dining options, renowned festivals and events, recreational programming, and an agricultural community, and you'll understand how enticing it is to be a part of this wonderful community.
CNL is committed to providing an atmosphere free from barriers that promotes equity, diversity, and inclusion in achieving our mission. CNL welcomes and celebrates employees, stakeholders, and partners of all racial, cultural, and ethnic identities. Read here for more on our DE&I Commitment.
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CNL recognizes and acknowledges that the Douglas Point site is located within the Traditional Territory of the Saugeen Ojibway Nation (SON), and the harvesting areas of the Métis Nation of Ontario (MNO) and the Historic Saugeen Métis (HSM).
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