Are you looking for a role that will challenge you? Can you see yourself as a Project Director – CRL Reactor Decommissioning Program Execution, leading high-risk, high-value, multi-year projects that shape the future of environmental remediation at Chalk River? Do you thrive in complex environments where you are responsible for delivering large-scale projects with significant impact on safety, regulatory compliance, and organizational success? If you answered yes, then this may be the job for you! Apply today!

What will you be doing!

Leading the delivery of large-scale, high-risk, multi-year decommissioning projects critical to CRL’s success.
Managing all aspects of project planning, budgeting, and resource allocation across complex project portfolios.
Building, leading, and sustaining large multidisciplinary teams to achieve project objectives.
Establishing project scope, priorities, and responsibilities while managing risks and regulatory commitments.
Reviewing and approving work breakdown structures, schedules, cost estimates, and project changes.
Authorizing project expenditures, procurement activities, and financial commitments.
Driving long-term strategic planning and facility sequencing aligned with operational needs.
Monitoring and reporting project performance to senior leadership, clients, and stakeholders.
Motivating, coaching, and mentoring team members to deliver quality results on time and on budget.
Defining roles, managing performance, and providing leadership, including feedback, development, and disciplinary actions where required.
Ensuring compliance with safety requirements, site licensing, quality programs, and regulatory obligations.
Collaborating with internal and external stakeholders, including regulators, government officials, and partners.
Other duties as assigned by your manager.

What we are looking for:

Education
- Degree in project management, engineering, applied/building sciences, business, commerce, or a related discipline (or equivalent experience).
- PMP certification is considered an asset.
Experience
- Minimum of five (5) years of progressively responsible project experience in a senior or lead project capacity.
- Demonstrated experience delivering large, high-risk, complex projects with significant financial scope.
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
- Extensive knowledge of all project management areas including scope, cost, schedule, quality, risk, procurement, and integration.
- Experience across all project lifecycle phases including planning, design, execution, and closeout.
- Strong leadership and people management skills with experience leading large teams (100+ resources).
- Excellent strategic thinking, planning, budgeting, and organizational capabilities.
- Strong communication, stakeholder management, and negotiation skills at senior levels.
- Demonstrated ability to manage competing priorities, complex stakeholder environments, and regulatory requirements.
- Knowledge of decommissioning processes, licensing requirements, and environmental remediation practices.
- High level of judgment, decision-making, and problem-solving in complex, high-pressure environments.
Security Clearance Eligibility Required
- Level 2 Secret requires a minimum of 7 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 the environment
Contributing to the health of Canadians

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

Location: Onsite

Located in the heart of the Ottawa Valley, our Chalk River site offers a beautiful natural setting with forests, lakes, and wildlife, right at your doorstep. Surrounded by welcoming communities such as Deep River, Petawawa, and Pembroke, you’ll have access to unparalleled outdoor adventures and a fantastic work-life balance.

Please note: This is a fully on-site position based at our Chalk River Laboratory in 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

These values drive our employment practices and ensure meaningful career development opportunities and accommodations for all employees.

CNL is an equal opportunity employer. If you require accommodation during any phase of the hiring process, please let us know via jobs@cnl.ca. All requests will be handled with confidentiality.

CNL operates on sites located on the traditional lands, waterways and ceded and unceded territories of Indigenous peoples. CNL recognizes and affirms all First Nations, Métis communities and Inuit in this land we now know as Canada. We acknowledge, respect and seek to better understand Indigenous history, rights and title on the lands where we work and develop projects. We honour and respect the importance of the relationship between Indigenous peoples and their lands, waters and territories.