Nuclear Work Control Lead in Darlington

We are currently requesting resumes for the following position: Work Control Team Lead.

Number of Vacancies: 1

Job ID: 24-036

Level: MP4

Duration: 36 months

Hours of work: 35

Location: Darlington (100% onsite)

Job Overview:

• As the designated single point of contact, be fully accountable for the effective and efficient management and control of maintenance and system daily and outage activities generated as a result of the Work Management processes.
• Direct the development and implementation of assigned Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) including resolving schedule conflicts.
• Be responsible for controlling work scope, organizing, executing, reviewing, and deciding upon all planned activities and resource requirements.
• Plan, organize, coordinate, and maintain status on all preparatory and ongoing requirements of the work plan/schedule.
• Ensure all work groups involved are committed to the completion of scheduled work as practical.
• Be accountable for ensuring schedule preparation and execution activities are performed with attention to public and worker safety requirements.
• Keep abreast of current changes in operating requirements and determine relevant impacts on schedule execution.
• Anticipate emerging issues, and initiate and/or accommodate projects and emergent work into the schedule.
• Manage and direct the resolution of all inter-group or inter-department coordination issues.
• Monitor for work failing to meet schedule, and direct corrective action.
• Conduct meetings with work groups identified to execute required tasks, to influence them to accept the schedule and specified conditions of work.
• Provide effective leadership at daily status meetings in order to control, maintain, and update the work plan/schedule.
• Identify changes and approve new work being proposed for addition to the schedule.
• Ensure all permit preparations, pre-job walk downs, and other requirements are complete and situations have not changed prior to work execution.
• Expedite the final approving authority for the daily plan/schedule.
• Effectively communicate changes to schedule, priorities, and other relevant conditions to applicable work groups.
• Be accountable for monitoring the work being performed to completion, as scheduled.
• Maintain an awareness of the status of all jobs on the plan.
• Conduct a project/schedule post-mortem. Identify significant events, analysis of the schedule accomplishments, problems, and suggested corrective actions.
• Active use of the Corrective Action and Self-Assessment processes, including quality and timely resolution of assigned action items as well as support of the Corrective Action Plan development.
• Develop detailed logic-tied, resource-loaded schedules for respective WBS utilizing scheduling tools and software.
• Identify planned changes in system state which may be subjected to evolution approval process.
• Document control scope changes for respective WBS.
• Maximize overall equipment availability and reliability by balancing Online and Outage activities.
• Perform Online and Outage risk assessments and identify risk management activities, including nuclear safety risk, generation risk, reactivity risk, and radiological risk.

Qualifications:

• Requires practical experience associated with a multi-unit nuclear facility to become thoroughly familiar with systems, equipment, components, and processes related to the maintenance and production of energy.
• Requires a knowledge of all Operating Policies and Procedures, station reference plans, safety procedures, including radiation protection and conventional safety practices, and health and safety standards.
• Requires in-depth station experience to effectively manage, direct, and coordinate work processes.
• Requires experience to exercise sound project management and communication skills to meet targets.
• Requires experience in a team lead role to manage and control daily and outage maintenance and system activities.
• A period of over 8 years and up to and including 10 years is considered necessary to gain this experience.