Job Description

Are you looking for a role that will challenge you?

Would you like to make a difference in the Environment?

If you answered yes, our Whiteshell Laboratories (WL) site located near Pinawa, Manitoba is looking for Radiation Protection (RP) Trainee Surveyors to assist the Radiation Protection (RP) Supervisor and the Manager of Compliance & Radiation Protection to implement the RP Programs for the Whiteshell Laboratories Restoration Project (WLRP). Can you see yourself conducting radiological safety assessments; participation in accident investigations and workplace inspections; advising staff on RP requirements in their respective work areas; and ensuring that the WL site in general is compliant with the requirements of the RP Programs.? Does the idea appeal to you? If you answered yes, then this may be the job for you!

What will you be doing?

• assisting the RP Supervisor and the Manager of Compliance & Radiation Protection to implement the RP Programs.
• Conducting radiological safety assessments, compliance surveys, and workplace inspections.
• Advising staff on RP requirements in their respective work areas and ensuring that the WL site is compliant with the requirements of the RP Programs.
• Providing radiation protection services including radiological clearance surveys, characterization surveys, decommissioning surveys with radiological work assessments.
• Assisting with decommissioning activities, providing radiation protection advice and guidance for radiological protective clothing and equipment, setting up zoning, monitoring radiation doses and contamination levels, packaging waste, and surveying waste.
• Assisting trades and operations and projects staff as a Radiation Protection Subject Matter Expert.
• Working collaboratively within a team with all levels of Radiation Protection staff to provide radiation protection services throughout the WL Site.
• Other duties as assigned by manager.

What we are looking for-

• The candidate must be tactful and diplomatic, able to work effectively with employees, contractors and line management alike and able to present recommendations in a clear and effective manner.
• Secondary School Graduation or its equivalent.
• Minimum of three years pertinent experience or its equivalent in a combination of experience, additional education and/or training.
• Basic knowledge of scientific, mathematical principles and laboratory techniques is needed.
• Must possess a high sense of individual responsibility.
• Must be willing to work in an operational and decommissioning environment (i.e. laboratories, workshops, confined spaces, construction and demolition areas).
• Must be willing to undertake and successfully complete formal and on-the-job training in order to satisfy the requirements for duty as a Radiation Safety Surveyor. (Training levels achieved will directly affect career progression).
• Must obtain a working knowledge of legislative, regulatory and CNL company principles associated with Radiation Protection Job/Industry Specific Knowledge.
• Effective written and oral communication skills to persuade.
• Should be a mature, well-organized self-starter who enjoys working with a team in an operational and decommissioning environment. Career progression will require the candidate to demonstrate supervisory ability.
• Background in the nuclear industry beneficial.
• Group one RP Surveyor designation an asset but will be provided.

Security Eligibility Requirement

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

Why CNL Whiteshell?

• Compressed work week! You get to work hard and enjoy more time with your family and friends. Work-life balance is an integral part of our overall health and well-being; at CNL, we value this.

• We offer a complete total rewards package:

• paid time off (vacation, sick, floater & personal days);
• benefits effective day one, that\xe2\x80\x99s right no waiting period;
• tuition support;
• and a pension!

Location:

CNL Whiteshell is located in the beautiful and historic municipality of Pinawa, Manitoba, roughly an hour by car from Winnipeg, MB. Pinawa is an excellent choice for people looking for peace and tranquillity and those who love the outdoors.

About CNL:

CNL is Canada\'s premier nuclear science and technology organization and a world leader in developing nuclear technology for peaceful and innovative applications. Using our unique expertise, we are restoring and protecting the Environment, we are advancing clean energy technology, and our medical breakthroughs continue to improve the health of people around the world.

Our Priorities:

• Clean energy for today and tomorrow.
• Restore and protect the Environment.
• Contribute to the health of Canadians.

CNL is committed to providing an atmosphere free from barriers that promotes equity, diversity and inclusion in achieving our mission.

CNL welcomes and celebrates employees, stakeholders and partners of all racial, cultural, and ethnic identities.

CNL also supports a workplace environment and a corporate culture that is built on our Core Values: Respect, Teamwork, Accountability, Safety, Integrity and Excellence which encourage equitable employment practices and career prospects inclusive of accommodations for all employees.

CNL is committed to being an equal-opportunity employer. If you require accommodation measures during any phase of the hiring process, please indicate via our ATS when applying. All information received in relation to accommodation requests will be kept confidential.

CNL respectfully recognizes and acknowledges that the Whiteshell Site is located within the traditional territory of many Indigenous Nations, including those within Treaty 1, 3, and 5, and the homeland of the Red River M\xc3\xa9tis. CNL is thankful to have the opportunity to work on these traditionally and culturally significant lands and waterways.

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