The Opportunity

Position: Project Manager

Employment Type: Permanent

Employment Level: Intermediate

Location: 800 Kipling Avenue, Toronto, ON

Department: Nuclear Equipment Solutions

Hours per week: 40

Number Required: 2

Salary Range: $101,268 - $122,000. 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.

Accountabilities: How You Will Make an Impact

• Monitor and report out on the cost and schedule adherence, including the preparation of various internal and external status reports, schedules, and plans.
• Coordinate the day-to-day tasks and manage the project team to ensure that the project is executed as per process and project plans.
• Develop and execute project cost and schedule recovery plans as required to meet customer delivery dates and cost adherence.
• Support as PM for projects within NET including design/build/test of custom equipment and tooling, delivery of nuclear parts (CGD, Reverse Engineering), and execution of field work such as inspection campaigns, installation/commissioning, etc.
• Drive execution through the project lifecycle from design to assembly and testing, ensuring the work is conducted within Kinectrics' Quality Program.
• Depending on the size of the project, provide project management oversight or self-perform procurement engineering activities and coordinate with external vendors to ensure that procured services and components meet the specified requirements, including coordinating inspections and source surveillance.
• Track and escalate on vendor delivery date adherence and cost adherence, including supporting procurement with expediting of materials where necessary.
• Assist in the non-conformance reporting process, including raising and dispositioning non-conformance reports and corrective action requests.
• Manage tests, investigations and troubleshooting efforts regarding fabrication and testing of nuclear parts and systems complying with nuclear quality program requirements.
• Investigate incidents of in-service failures or test failures or unsatisfactory performance; resolving the issue to the satisfaction of our customers.
• Assist in the negotiation and administration of contracts, including estimates of costs, schedule, and resources required. Carry out customers' work; prepare timely reports with recommendations based on results achieved.
• Lead teams, who participate in various projects and provide technical supervision as required with effective problem solving.
• Ensure customer satisfaction with timely communication and project controls.
• Manage small and large scale projects, understanding competing priorities and deadlines.
• Assist in actively marketing/selling the technology/services of the business to ensure products remains viable and competitive.
• Prepare short form quotations and large complex proposals.
• Perform other duties as required.

What You Need to Succeed

Essential Knowledge, Experience and Qualifications:

• Experience in parts design, build, and testing work programs, services, scheduling and associated costs.
• Experience in testing of equipment / components and materials found in nuclear power plants and the use of sophisticated electronic equipment for test work.
• Practical experience in the design and development of sophisticated equipment and instrumentation for testing would be an asset.
• Knowledge and interpretation of national and international standards as they apply to this field.
• Knowledge of nuclear quality program and testing requirements
• Knowledge of nuclear quality assurance standards
• Strong understanding and commitment to HU principles with preference to nuclear station experience in HU culture preferred.
• Must have excellent communications, technical report writing and oral presentation skills.
• A four-year university education engineering or equivalent is required
• A period of up to 4 years of related Nuclear experience is considered necessary to gain this experience.
• Ability to obtain Nuclear security clearance is essential.

Essential Competencies:

• Strong customer orientation and commitment to Kinectrics and Business Unit goals.
• Demonstrated skill in contract management and administration with positive track record of completing projects on budget and schedule in terms of client satisfaction.
• Demonstrated high level of initiative to propose and implement new ideas.
• Demonstrated ability to work in multi-disciplinary team situations with a variety of partners and diverse issues and roles.
• Demonstrated ability to effectively manage multiple projects of varying complexity and technical disciplines.
• Strong oral and written communications.
• Proven skills with a variety of software programs including MS Office, and MS Project.

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.

This posting is for an existing vacancy.