Project Lead in Port Hope

Are you looking for a role that will challenge you? Can you see yourself as a Project Lead, delivering a major remediation project with a lasting impact on the environment and surrounding communities? Do you enjoy leading large, complex projects, working with multidisciplinary teams, managing stakeholders, and driving successful outcomes in highly regulated environments where safety and quality are critical? If you answered yes, then this may be the job for you!

What you will be doing:

• Planning, organizing, leading, and coordinating all project disciplines and work activities to support successful project delivery.
• Implementing project management tools, methodologies, and best practices to achieve project objectives and stakeholder expectations.
• Ensuring safety, quality, environmental, and health requirements are incorporated into project plans and designs.
• Managing changes to project scope, schedule, budget, and stakeholder impacts while maintaining alignment with approved project baselines.
• Identifying project risks, challenges, and barriers and developing effective mitigation strategies.
• Reporting project progress, performance, and key updates to senior management, clients, and stakeholders.
• Establishing project priorities and coordinating responsibilities across multiple work packages and interfaces.
• Executing contract and procurement strategies while managing complex contractor and vendor relationships.
• Leading teams of CNL staff, consultants, contractors, and vendors to achieve project objectives.
• Building and sustaining a positive, inclusive, and high‑performing team environment.
• Motivating teams to deliver quality results safely, on schedule, and within budget.
• Defining team roles, responsibilities, objectives, and performance expectations.
• Mentoring, coaching, and developing team members in project management, leadership, and business delivery practices.
• Collaborating with clients, stakeholders, regulators, and community representatives to support project success.
• Supporting compliance with federal and provincial regulations, licensing requirements, and organizational policies.
• Other duties as assigned by your manager.

What we are looking for:

Education

• Degree or diploma from a recognized college or university in Construction Project Management, Civil Engineering, Geotechnical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related discipline.

Experience

• Eight (8) or more years of progressively responsible project management experience, preferably supporting large construction and/or remediation projects.
• Experience supervising contractors, consultant engineers, and vendors performing field work and construction activities.
• Experience leading large, multi‑year projects with significant budgets, multiple work packages, and numerous stakeholder interfaces.
• Experience using project management software, tools, and industry best practices to plan, execute, monitor, and control projects.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Demonstrated project management expertise in planning, budgeting, scheduling, resourcing, contract management, and executive‑level reporting.
• Applied knowledge of project management principles including scope, cost, schedule, quality, communications, human resources, risk, procurement, and integration management.
• Demonstrated ability to lead large, multidisciplinary teams and deliver results in complex project environments.
• Strong leadership, team‑building, coaching, and consensus‑building skills.
• Demonstrated ability to manage complex stakeholder relationships while maintaining professionalism, integrity, and accountability.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to present information to senior leaders, clients, regulatory agencies, and diverse stakeholder groups.
• Proven ability to assess risks, evaluate alternatives, and make sound decisions in a dynamic project environment.
• Demonstrated ability to manage contracts, procurement activities, and vendor relationships.

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: 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 Our Port Hope site is situated along the scenic shores of Lake Ontario, just east of Toronto. The community is rich in history, with vibrant downtown shops, restaurants, and nearby trails and parks. Living and working here offers the perfect blend of small‑town charm and easy access to urban amenities.

Please note: This is a fully onsite position based at our Port Hope location, 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.

The CNL Historic Waste Program Management Office and the Port Hope Area Initiative projects are situated on the traditional lands of the Williams Treaties First Nations. CNL is grateful to have the opportunity to work on these traditionally and culturally significant lands and waterways.