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Senior Director, Plant Control SystemsAtkinsRéalis • Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
Senior Director, Plant Control Systems

Senior Director, Plant Control Systems

AtkinsRéalis • Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
30+ days ago
Job type
  • Full-time
Job description
Job Description

Overview

The Senior Director, Plant Controls Systems is a senior leadership position responsible for the strategic direction, governance, and operational excellence of Plant Control Systems engineering within the organization. This role ensures the discipline's standards, processes, and talent are world-class, supporting both project delivery and long-term business objectives in the nuclear sector.

Your role

  • Define, implement, and continuously improve discipline-specific standards, procedures, design guides, and best practices.
  • Oversee the governance and oversight function, ensuring independence from daily operations and fostering a culture of constructive challenge and evidence-based decision-making.
  • Define and maintain the capabilities to be a CANDU OEM.
  • Fleet-wide strategy for the plant control system architecture across refurbishment/new build/digital upgrades, and lifecycle/obsolescence roadmaps (DCS/PLC refresh) for the digital control architecture; integrates CSA N-series, CNSC expectations and knowledge management.
  • Lead the discipline's interface to the organization's cyber program and ensure designs implement CSA N290.7:21 Defensive Cyber Security Architecture (zones/CEAs), supply-chain cyber controls, and incident response readiness
  • Drive process and regulatory compliance, ensuring quality and continuous improvement across all projects.
  • Lead and sponsor engineering improvement activities to meet customer requirements and achieve business and financial goals.
  • Act as the escalation point for technical issues and disputes, resolving them collaboratively with project leadership.
  • Capture, share, and utilize engineering knowledge across the organization, incorporating lessons learned and best practices.
  • Lead a team of Discipline Managers
  • Manage project-related human resource issues and resolve work performance problems.
  • Interpret and apply negotiated agreements with bargaining agents as they affect the rights, obligations, and working conditions of employees.
  • Lead the development and execution of strategic plans for the discipline, including capability building, succession planning, and resource management.
  • Define and maintain technical training qualifications and certification requirements for each skill category/job family.
  • Mentor, coach, and develop engineering staff, fostering knowledge transfer and a collaborative technical community. Including overseeing the development of future knowledge & skill sets with the support of Project Directors
  • Interface with senior executives, project partners, and external stakeholders to ensure effective engineering support.


About You

  • Engineering or technical degree from a recognized university; advanced degree preferred.
  • Minimum 15 years of instrumentation & control engineering experience.
  • Professional Engineer (P.Eng) registration with PEO or equivalent required.
  • Demonstrated experience in leading significant engineering departments and multi-disciplinary teams.
  • Experience with a variety of SCADA / PLC / DCS platforms
  • Extensive knowledge of INPO/WANO fundamentals, nuclear safety practices, and regulatory requirements.
  • Experience with system & software qualification processes, experience with N290.14 considered an asset.
  • Experience working throughout various stages of complex engineering projects from conception to commissioning.
  • Experience collaborating with supply chain professionals and building supply chain strategies.
  • Meaningful experience working at project site, experience at a commercial nuclear power plant considered an asset
  • Advanced capabilities in process improvement, equipment reliability, and operational excellence.
  • Visionary, results-oriented, and highly motivated leader.
  • Strong business acumen, technical expertise, and people management skills.
  • Excellent communicator, negotiator, and influencer.
  • Ability to drive change, enhance productivity, and deliver results in a complex, regulated environment.
  • Commitment to safety, integrity, and continuous improvement.


Reward & benefits

Explore the rewards and benefits that help you thrive - at every stage of your life and your career at AtkinsRéalis in Canada.

Enjoy competitive compensation, employee recognition, and a brilliant range of flexible benefits you can tailor to your health, wellbeing, financial and lifestyle needs.

Make the most of diverse opportunities for training and professional development to grow your skills and expertise.

And take advantage of our hybrid working culture and generous time-off policies to balance a fulfilling career with your personal life.

Be rewarded. Find out more.

About AtkinsRéalis

We're AtkinsRéalis, a world-class engineering services and nuclear organization. We connect people, data and technology to transform the world's infrastructure and energy systems. Together, with our industry partners and clients, and our global team of consultants, designers, engineers and project managers, we can change the world. We're committed to leading our clients across our various end markets to engineer a better future for our planet and its people.

Find out more.

Additional information

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Appropriate accommodation will be provided upon request throughout the recruitment and hiring process as required by Company policy and the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA).

Successful applicants will be notified about AtkinsRéalis' accommodation policies at the time the employment offer is extended, and the information will be shared with new personnel during the onboarding process.

Worker Type

Employee

Job Type

Regular

At AtkinsRéalis, we seek to hire individuals with diverse characteristics, backgrounds and perspectives. We strongly believe that world-class talent makes no distinctions based on gender, ethnic or national origin, sexual identity and orientation, age, religion or disability, but enriches itself through these differences.
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