Technical Director, Nuclear Site Infrastructure Program (ESP Tech Lead)

Description

• Oversee technical alignment with IAAC permitting and CNSC licensing (License to Prepare Site).
• Ensure all deliverables comply with project standards, quality systems, and project controls.
• Foster a strong nuclear safety culture, ensuring strict configuration management between design and licensing bases.
• Establish the execution framework, and contribute for schedule, cost estimation, and resource planning, to support Phase 2 implementation.
• Direct execution of conceptual engineering activities across all grouped aspects of site preparation.
• Provide technical assurance that all preparatory studies and plans position the project for a risk-mitigated transition into execution.
• Define and lead the technical execution strategy for all site preparation aspects (permits, earthworks, facilities, utilities, safety, infrastructure, and special functions).
• Coordinate technical work across EGIS France and EGIS Canada, ensuring knowledge transfer and regulatory alignment.
• Provide leadership and mentoring to multidisciplinary technical teams.
• Lead the structuring of site preparation work into logical packages, ensuring interdependencies and risks are fully defined.
• Provide oversight and assurance of integration across all engineering disciplines.
• Provide technical leadership to ensure outputs are robust, regulator-compliant, and aligned with downstream activities.
• Represent technical positions in governance reviews, regulatory workshops, and stakeholder meetings (including Indigenous Groups and local authorities).
• Lead lessons learned activities, embedding best practices into the project’s technical baseline.
• Ensure that work packages are technically sound, integrated, and support long-term constructability, operability, and maintainability.
• Validate baseline assumptions through site assessments, walkdowns, and stakeholder engagement.
• Oversee progressive reporting and deliverable reviews (drafts to final).
• Provide technical justification for licensing and permitting decisions.
• Manage close coordination between France- and Canada-based teams, ensuring international expertise is adapted to Canadian standards.
• Ensure that technical inputs are regulator-ready, traceable, and delivered on schedule.
• Promote continuous improvement and capability development across teams.
• Act as the senior technical point of contact with the client's engineering, permitting, and project controls teams.
• Develop, lead, and maintain an Integrated Project Team (IPT) with relevant stakeholders, ensuring join decision-making, technical alignment, and effective progress tracking.

Requirements

• Mastery of regulatory and permitting frameworks.
• Strong leadership in project controls, assurance, and integration.
• 15+ years’ experience in nuclear/large-scale infrastructure, with demonstrated leadership in Nuclear Power Plant Construction Readiness Program.
• Proven experience with nuclear licensing and permitting. Canadian Regulatory experiences is an asset.
• Effective stakeholder and client engagement.
• Advanced degree in Civil, Nuclear, Mechanical, or related Engineering discipline.
• Senior technical authority in nuclear/energy site preparation.
• Team development and mentoring capability.
• Strong track record in project controls integration, QA/QC (ISO 9001, ISO 19443,), and regulatory-driven project delivery.

Benefits

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance