Series Lead - SGR

Opportunity

Nuclear’s portfolio of building, refurbishing, maintaining, and decommissioning nuclear power facilities reflects a record of project success that ranges from small but essential maintenance contracts to major construction endeavors. Aecon supports clients with expert project management to the most exacting standards. Working with our joint venture partner Atkins Realis, Aecon Nuclear has been awarded the definition phase contract with Ontario Power Generation (OPG) to assist in planning the Pickering Retube, Feeder and Boiler replacement (RFBR) project. This project involves the refurbishment of four reactors and replacement of the forty eight steam generators at the Pickering Nuclear Generating Station. The Series Lead directs, coordinates and exercises functional authority for planning, organization, control, integration and completion of engineering and construction requirements within the scope of a specified project. The Series Lead, reporting directly to the Project Manager, will play a key role in providing leadership in managing / supervising construction projects by assisting in the project management and coordination of schedules, manpower, customer relations, engineering, and procurement. Risk analysis, project forecasting, liaising with EPC and subcontractors are daily occurrences in these positions.

Responsibilities

• Lead by example to ensure a “ONE TEAM” Project-First, collaborative approach for internal, external, cross-JV and client-facing interactions. Create the context that promotes this and other values that are required to make the project successful.
• Demonstrates strong nuclear safety culture. Maintains such a culture using event free tools and technical conscience. Assists and monitors safety programs and statistics as required.
• Support the Project Manager in creating and sharing the vision of project success with the team.
• Ensure the team has a clear understanding of contractual requirements.
• Ensure the partner is properly resourced and aligned, and resolve issues related to that.
• In conjunction with the Project Manager, ensure adequate project systems are in place to monitor the performance indicators that will lead to project success (e.g. include leading and lagging indicators as appropriate). Identify targets where appropriate.
• Ensure the delivery of all its scope in accordance with safety standards, on time, on budget and compliant with the Contract.
• Provide regular and accurate progress updates to the Project Manager, CanAtom Project Controls and the client for reporting purposes.
• Interfaces and coordinates with project Design Team Lead (DTL), Field Engineering Manager, Construction Manager, QC lead and relevant Project stakeholders. Ensures a collaborative approach with engineering to ensure that the linkage between design, constructability, and execution is sustained
• Manages Project Coordinators, Identifies project manpower requirements and coordinates manpower with appropriate trades and subcontractors
• Arranges and Attends project meetings, and maintains meeting minutes as necessary
• Ensure adherence of CanAtom Quality program, Project scope and risk register, and actively participates in risk identification, register updates and implementation of mitigating plans, for its scope
• Works collaboratively with Engineering leads to understand Engineering design and to ensure adherence to OPGs Engineering Change Control (ECC) process.
• Reads and analyzes Boiler install drawings, tool and mock-up general assembly drawings, and code and technical specification documents related to the SGR project. Coordinates activities relating to technical developments, and scheduling.
• Manages and controls project changes and priorities in accordance with project procedures and client governance.
• Support development, evaluates, understands project P6 schedule, logic, priorities, status, key milestones, critical path activities, project budget and expenditures. Identifies project performance challenges, opportunities and provides improvement feedback and recovery plans on cost and schedule to customer, project team, and management.
• Reviews and incorporates relevant operating experience and lessons learned into planning and installation activities.
• Maintains active involvement in quality assurance with regards to understating and implementing policies and procedures
• Manages preparation and ensures completion of pre-installation activities such as Work Assessment, Comprehensive Work Packages (CWPs) etc. Maintains high standards related to final CWP product quality and to consistently require conformance from trades, quality staff, and subcontractors
• Performs work planning preparation and coordination of multi-discipline work groups. Identification and interfacing with all relevant stakeholders and process owners to meet prescribed objectives.
• Prepares for installation activities, plans and manages project execution. Maintains good field presence and works collaboratively with construction and Project Manager for material movement and coordination of execution activities.
• Provide on-site implementation support and ensure field changes are addressed and approved as per applicable procedures.
• Consistently works in collaboration with QA and Engineering to solve issues collaboratively via FCRs, NCRs, and ACERs
• Coordinate with project team to complete non-engineering documents such as Operation, Maintenance and Training Documents (Project EC).
• Prepares commissioning strategy and logic, Construction Completion Declaration, Availability For Service, Operation and other stakeholder’s acceptance and closeout.
• Reviews and ensures proper documentation of commissioning specifications, procedures / results, and their acceptance by appropriate stakeholders.
• Coordinates preparation and delivery of project deliverables, design documents, as built drawings, turnover documents, etc.
• Prepares / participates in preparation of Installation Completion Declaration.
• Coordinates / reviews the availability of Spare Parts required for commissioning and AFS.
• Work collaboratively with the SGR stakeholders to ensure the Project requirements are met and represents the most efficient methods to deliver its Scope.
• Driving compensatory actions related to adverse quality trends during the project.
• Stakeholder management with the Client on requests for contract changes in close collaboration with the support team.
• Tracking and expediting internal and external deliverables as part of the contract.
• Provide frequent, informal performance feedback to SGR team members, and formal feedback according to home office company policy. Endeavor the feedback to be in person wherever possible.

Qualifications

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