Manager Projects in Pickering

Ontario Power Generation (OPG) is looking for a dynamic, strategic and results-driven professional to join our team in the role of Manager, Projects. The Manager, Projects leads the planning, coordination, and readiness of refurbishment work to support safe, predictable, and efficient project execution. Working across Engineering, Operations, Maintenance, Supply Chain, and project delivery teams, this role drives integrated work management, resolves execution constraints, and ensures work is aligned with project milestones, nuclear safety requirements, and regulatory obligations.

Key Accountabilities

• Lead Integrated Work Management Planning: Lead the development and execution of integrated work-management strategies for refurbishment scope, ensuring work is properly defined, prioritized, sequenced, and aligned with station outage and project milestones.
• Manage Project Scope, Schedule, and Readiness: Oversee planning and readiness of assigned refurbishment work packages, including scope definition, work order quality, materials availability, engineering inputs, permits, access requirements, and execution constraints.
• Coordinate Cross-Functional Stakeholders: Partner with Engineering, Maintenance, Operations, Supply Chain, Radiation Protection, Nuclear Safety, Quality, Project Controls, and contractors to resolve interfaces and ensure work can proceed safely and efficiently.
• Drive Schedule Performance and Constraint Removal: Monitor critical-path activities, emerging schedule risks, backlog, and productivity performance; lead timely escalation and removal of constraints affecting planned work execution.
• Ensure Excellence in Nuclear Safety and Regulatory Compliance: Reinforce a strong nuclear safety culture and ensure all work-management activities comply with applicable regulatory requirements, station procedures, quality standards, ALARA principles, and environmental obligations.
• Provide Leadership to the Work Management Team: Lead, coach, and develop project and work-management personnel; establish clear accountabilities, performance expectations, and succession capability while fostering a collaborative, high-performing team environment.
• Optimize Work Processes and Digital Tools: Champion continuous improvement in work planning, scheduling, reporting, and governance processes. Use performance data and work-management systems to improve work package quality, predictability, and execution efficiency.
• Manage Performance Reporting, Risk, and Governance: Establish and maintain effective project controls, including status reporting, key performance indicators, risk registers, recovery plans, and management reviews. Provide clear, timely updates to senior leadership on progress, issues, decisions, and forecast outcomes.

Qualifications

• Post-secondary education in Engineering, Project Management, Business Administration or a related technical field. PMP certification is considered an asset.
• Minimum of 5 years’ progressive experience in project management, work management, maintenance planning, preferably in nuclear, utility, energy, or other highly regulated industry.
• Minimum of 3 years’ experience in a leadership role, specifically leading multidisciplinary teams.
• Strong knowledge of project controls and work-management practices, including scope definition, work packaging, scheduling, resource planning, risk management, cost and progress reporting, and constraint management.
• Experience supporting large, complex refurbishment, outage, construction, or asset-management programs, with the ability to manage competing priorities and deliver against demanding schedule commitments.
• Proven commitment to safety, quality, regulatory compliance, and continuous improvement in a high-hazard or highly regulated operational environment.
• Strong communication, stakeholder-management, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to influence decisions, resolve cross-functional issues, and provide clear updates to senior leadership.

The successful candidate will exhibit uncompromising integrity and commitment to upholding corporate values, and the OPG Code of Business Conduct.

OPG is committed to fostering an inclusive, equitable, and accessible environment. If you require accommodation during the selection process, please contact AODA@opg.com.

OPG is committed to employment equity. As such, we encourage applicants from equity-seeking communities (Indigenous Peoples, racialized persons, persons with disabilities, and women). We strongly believe that alleviating the under-representation of equity-seeking individuals will create a stronger OPG team and allow us to better serve the needs of our diverse communities.