Section Manager, Structural Integrity

Description

• Supporting fitness for service assessments per API579 guidelines.
• Interfacing effectively with design team, equipment group and testing group to provide practical and effective solutions as per project requirements.
• Identify growth and development opportunities for team members.
• Performs managerial functions such as hiring, promotion, performance reviews, pay increases, staff development. and disciplinary actions in accordance with established policies and procedures.
• Drives a culture of safety first/right first time and that all engineering work is conducted in compliance with municipal, provincial, and federal safety, workplace, or environmental regulations that apply to the facility.
• Manage and motivate assigned staff and team members, achieving effective utilization of resources and prioritization. Ensure effective facility management, work allocation and safe operations.
• Create and deliver to a rigorous production schedule ensuring every product is delivered on-time.
• Creates and maintains a positive culture focused on worker morale and corporate social responsibility.
• Provide mentoring and development to employees and contribute to the recruitment of new staff.
• Accountable for supporting error free culture & staff behaviors by implementing human performance tools.
• Ensure that the business strategy is well developed and based on good market and competitor knowledge. The agreed strategy is to be clearly articulated and communicated.
• Provides training and skill development for both day-to-day operations as well as for growth and improved performance.
• Acting as the relevant software QA primary holder or delegate as required within the section following Nuclear QA Standards such as CSA N286.7.
• Drives a culture of high performance and safety where everyone is committed to and accountable for delivery of performance goals and operational KPIs, ensuring a client first culture.
• Ensure business systems are updated and accurate, including revenue forecasts.
• Develop a business model which drives efficiency into the business.
• Build relationships with current and future customers while maintaining high customer satisfaction.
• Conducting technical assessments and emergent troubleshooting/engineering to support station engineering requests, refurbishment projects and operating unit (capital) projects.
• Understanding and assessing client problems to determine appropriate means of solution.
• Identify opportunities for synergy & integration with other Kinectrics service line offerings.
• Supports Director with maintaining service line profit and loss, material cost, labour, and bottom-line results.
• Ensure effective project management within service line.
• Drive timely input to invoicing and collections processes.
• Assessing fluid dynamic problems such as flow induced vibrations or water hammer using software such as ANSYS CFX and AFT Impulse.
• Responsible for staffing and resourcing decisions, including scheduling and assigning work.
• Carrying out nuclear (Class 1/2/3) and conventional (Class 6) piping analysis using commercial software packages such as PIPESTRESS or AutoPIPE.
• Ensure projects deliver to quality standards.
• Manage quality processes and ensure best practices are followed through HU tools.
• Facilitate internal relationships and effective use of resources, including integration with other Kinectrics pillars and for multidiscipline project teams.
• Seeks to grow the scope of the product and service enhancements, and ensure that the physical resources (CAPEX, facilities etc.) are appropriately up to date.
• Lead the Kinectrics internal ASME Appendix XXIII NCA-4000 qualification program.
• Ensures quality of investigations to identify corrective action and non-recurrence.
• Accomplish financial objectives by forecasting requirements; preparing an annual operations budget; scheduling expenditures; analyzing variances; initiating corrective actions.
• Meet personal and team billability targets.
• Working with PMs within the department to deliver quality deliverables to our clients on time and within budget. Commit to providing timely and effective support to nuclear power stations as operational needs arise, ensuring responsiveness to urgent and evolving project requirements.
• Oversight of stress analysis activities including:
• Develop a culture of continuous improvement in processes and initiate/monitor corrective actions required to improve performance.

Requirements

• Familiarity with nuclear industry requirements for stress analysis and design engineering.
• Finite element analysis using ANSYS Mechanical
• Working knowledge of relevant Codes and Standards including but not limited to CSA N285, N289, ASME Section III, Section VIII and B31.1, staying current with developments within their field of expertise including latest codes.
• Demonstrated knowledge of CANDU technology, strong understanding of nuclear power plant design and operation. Experience with CANDU and C6 refurbishment specifically Feeder and Fuel Channel replacement and assembly design employing GD&T is considered an asset.
• Demonstrated experience in preparation of reports, proposals, recommendations and presentations for internal and external clients.
• Strong team building, decision-making, mentorship, and people management skills.
• Excellent understanding of Kinectrics Quality Assurance requirements and applicable industry codes and standards.
• Ability to build and maintain working relationships with our customers and suppliers at the operating level.
• 8+ years’ relevant work experience, with preference given relevant prior mechanical design assist analyses as well as site & management experience in the nuclear industry.
• Solid working knowledge in the following areas:
• Excellent interpersonal, communication, and presentation skills.
• Demonstrated leadership ability among a team of individuals with diverse skill sets aligning them to exceed organizational goals.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and demonstrated a high commitment to quality and delivering on client commitments, including experience in leading technical projects to successful conclusions.
• Strong understanding of nuclear power plant design and operation.
• A bachelor’s degree (or higher) in Engineering. Professional Engineer of Ontario (PEO), or eligible for PEO status, with a passion for engineering.
• Proven ability to successfully manage large, complex, and multi-disciplinary projects and deliver on time and on budget.

Benefits

• Growth: To keep pace with Canada’s expanding energy and utility sector, we are growing more each day, which means more opportunities for you. We encourage our employees to grow alongside our company thanks to a number of significant training and personal development opportunities.
• Competitive Compensation: We offer a competitive total compensation package unmatched by most industries throughout North America.

Training + Development

Interview process

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