Manager, Nuclear Materials and Safeguards Management

Are you looking for a leadership role where you can help ensure the responsible management of nuclear materials and support international safeguards commitments? Can you provide strategic oversight for nuclear materials accounting, regulatory compliance, and safeguards programs while working with internal and external stakeholders to support critical operations? If you answered yes, this may be the job for you. Apply today! Our Chalk River location is hiring a Manager, Nuclear Materials and Safeguards Management to lead the safe procurement, accounting, storage, and handling of nuclear materials and serve as CNL's primary point of contact for nuclear materials accounting and International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) safeguards activities. What you will be doing! Developing, maintaining, and implementing an effective Nuclear Materials & Safeguard Management (NM&SM) functional support area (FSA) that meets both regulatory requirements and user needs. Monitoring and reporting on new/changing regulations, technical matters and technological developments in International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) safeguards (e.g. seals, data analysis) and providing recommendations for program implementation at CNL sites in Canada: Chalk River Laboratories, Whiteshell Laboratories, Gentility-1 Waste Facilities, Douglas Point Waste Facility and La Prade Heavy Water Storage Facility. Strengthening and maintaining interfaces and implementation with other CNL groups, including NM&SM FSA users, support services and other Functional Support Areas, to ensure compliance with regulations. Supporting the development and maintenance of FSA documentation in accordance with CNL's management system standards. Supporting the development of area-specific training for CNL groups to meet NM&SM FSA requirements. Managing and leading Nuclear Materials & Safeguards Management training courses for all CNL personnel involved with nuclear materials accounting, storage and on-site transfer. Maintaining the training course materials, revising as required to address learner feedback and changing nuclear materials accounting or IAEA safeguards regulations and issues, and supporting ongoing learning in terms of depth and breadth. Periodically review NM&SM Program effectiveness, ensuring that self-assessments are conducted as per approved plans/procedures. Conduct benchmarks to evaluate industry best practice for applicability within CNL and recommending/implementing changes as part of continual improvement. Acting as Single Point of Contact, representing CNL with national and international regulators, at external national and international meetings regarding NM&SM. Building and maintaining a network of external contacts including both national and international peers, government officials, and nuclear material suppliers, for benchmarking and addressing common issues. Leading nuclear material procurements and dispositions, which include defining specifications, contract negotiations, and overseeing delivery. Review commercial contracts and provide recommendations to ensure safeguards requirements, as defined in the IAEA/CNSC safeguards requirements documents, have been incorporated Developing and/or reviewing all the required IAEA documentation for new facilities that will contain nuclear material. Documentation includes Design Information Questionnaires, Safeguards Approaches, and any facility-specific operating procedures related to NM&SM. Managing systematic oversight of NM&SM activities (on-site transfers, nuclear materials accounting, nuclear materials reporting and IAEA inspections), reporting on deficiencies and suggesting corrective actions up to and including work stoppage (i.e., pose threats to workers' health and safety or non-proliferation agreements). Hiring, training, managing, and supervising a staff of 5-8 personnel comprised of specialists and accounting staff, to achieve overall branch objectives, within cost, quality, and schedule requirements. Establishing …

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