Maintenance Scheduler

Are you looking for a role that will challenge you? Can you see yourself as a Maintenance Scheduler, coordinating maintenance activities that keep critical site infrastructure operating safely and efficiently? Do you enjoy working with multiple stakeholders, balancing priorities, resolving scheduling conflicts, and ensuring work is completed on time and within established plans? If you thrive in a fast-paced environment where organization, communication, and problem-solving are key to success, then this may be the job for you!

What you will be doing:

• Monitoring work requests and work orders to support the scheduling and execution of maintenance activities.
• Initiating work requests on behalf of customer groups to ensure timely implementation and follow-up.
• Assisting with the development and maintenance of rolling maintenance schedules.
• Coordinating maintenance work activities and identifying resource requirements to support efficient work execution.
• Interfacing with customers and maintenance work groups to resolve scheduling conflicts and achieve work program objectives.
• Facilitating urgent and priority work through the coordination of activities across multiple work groups.
• Scheduling, monitoring, reviewing, and closing maintenance jobs.
• Recommending preventative maintenance activities to support improved equipment reliability and maintenance effectiveness.
• Reviewing outstanding work orders and maintaining backlog levels within established targets.
• Resolving job conflicts resulting from changing priorities, customer requests, and resource constraints.
• Dispositioning and closing orphaned tasks in maintenance management systems.
• Attending planning, scheduling, safety, and operational meetings as required.
• Assisting with the training, coaching, and mentoring of new employees.
• Other duties as assigned by your manager.

What we are looking for:

Education

• Post-secondary education in a technical, trades, maintenance, or related discipline.

Experience

• Minimum of five (5) years of technical, maintenance, operations, or related experience.
• Experience coordinating, planning, scheduling, or supporting maintenance activities in an industrial environment is considered an asset.
• Experience working with Computerized Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS), Oracle, or similar software applications.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Demonstrated interpersonal skills with the ability to work effectively with customers, colleagues, management, and work groups.
• Extensive knowledge of site systems, equipment, maintenance processes, and operational requirements.
• Demonstrated experience understanding and applying regulatory, procedural, and company requirements.
• Proven ability to adhere to schedules, manage competing priorities, and meet established deadlines.
• Demonstrated initiative in resolving problems, expediting resources, and identifying effective solutions.
• Working knowledge of CMMS, Oracle, and other maintenance or business management systems.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to communicate effectively across multiple departments and stakeholder groups.
• Demonstrated ability to coordinate activities and build productive working relationships across diverse teams.
• Proven ability to self-manage workload and perform administrative responsibilities with minimal supervision.
• Strong organizational and problem-solving skills with the ability to resolve moderately complex operational issues.
• Demonstrated attention to detail and commitment to maintaining accurate records and scheduling information.

Security Clearance Eligibility Required

• Reliability Status with Site Access Security Clearance (SASC), which has a minimum requirement of 3-5 years of verifiable history in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the United States and/or the United Kingdom.

Working Conditions:

• Working schedule: Four (4) days per week, ten (10) hours per day for a forty (40) 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.
• 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.

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.