Section Head, Project Delivery

Are you looking for a role that will truly challenge you and elevate the delivery of project management capabilities at an enterprise level? Can you see yourself shaping standards, building frameworks, and influencing excellence across a diverse project portfolio? Does the idea of governing qualifications, developing talent pathways, and strengthening organizational readiness energize you? If you answered yes, this may be the job for you—apply today! Our Chalk River location is looking for a Section Head, Project Delivery, to lead the governance, evolution, and enterprise adoption of CNL’s Project Management Qualification Framework.

What will you be doing!

Project Management Qualification Governance

Leading the development, maintenance, and continuous improvement of CNL’s Project Management Qualification Framework.

Ensuring competency and qualification expectations align with lifecycle governance, project categorization, and maturity requirements.

Maintaining qualification standards and documentation consistent with Project Delivery Office (PDO) governance and Management System requirements.

Overseeing qualification assessments, certification decisions, and re certification cycles for Project Managers.

Ensuring qualification decisions are objective, evidence based, consistent, and traceable.

Evaluating equivalency, progression readiness, and assignment eligibility in collaboration with Mission leadership and HR.

Project Management Capability & Mentorship

Leading mentoring and coaching programs supporting project manager progression and capability development.

Working closely with the Training Department to design, review, update, and deliver project management training programs supporting qualification requirements.

Coordinating with HR Learning & Development and department training leads, ensuring training content remains current, effective, and aligned with PDO expectations.

Support Missions and departments in identifying gaps in Project Management capabilities and development needs.

Integration with Governance, Assurance & Enterprise Functions

Integrating qualification standards with lifecycle governance, assurance outputs, lessons learned, and performance trends.

Ensuring that the project manager's capability expectations align with the gating, sanctioning, and project maturity requirements.

Collaborating with Portfolio Governance, Project Assurance, EVMS Compliance, and HR to support workforce planning, competency mapping, and development strategies.

Transformation Management

Leading initiatives to modernize and improve CNL’s qualification and capability development framework.

Advancing the evolution of project manager competency requirements in alignment with enterprise delivery needs.

Supporting change management activities to ensure new qualification processes are understood, adopted, and consistently applied across Missions and departments.

Other duties as assigned by your manager.

What we are looking for:

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering, business, project management, or related discipline.

Advanced degrees or professional certifications (PMP, PgMP, IPMA, APM, etc.) are considered an asset.

Experience

8–12 years of experience in project management, capability development, or PMO/PDO operations.

Experience with competency frameworks, structured training programs, or qualification systems.

Experience working with training organizations, HR, and senior stakeholders.

Nuclear or regulated industry experience preferred.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

Strong ability to interpret, apply, and communicate qualification and competency requirements.

Excellent facilitation, collaboration, and communication skills.

Ability to influence stakeholders across Missions and departments without direct authority.

Strong analytical and assessment skills.

Understanding of project management best practices, maturity expectations, and lifecycle governance.

Knowledge of training and learning methodologies, mentoring approaches, and capability development frameworks.

Familiarity with CNL governance processes, PDO (formerly PMO) standards, and project delivery expectations.

Security Clearance Eligibility Required

Reliability Status with Site Access Security Clearance (SASC), which has a minimum requirement of 3-5 years of verifiable history in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the United States and/or the United Kingdom. CNL implements security screening in accordance with the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat's “Standard on Security Screening” and the “Policy on Government Security.”

Working Conditions:

Working schedule: Five (5) days per week, seven and a half (7.5) hours per day for a thirty-seven and a half (37.5) hour work week.

Number of days onsite: Four (4).

Why CNL?

Does the idea of working with a dynamic team across Canada to advance nuclear science and technology for a clean and secure world excite you? At CNL, we’re reinventing ourselves to be industry leaders—pioneering solutions to the problems that matter most.

From building the next generation of clean nuclear and hydrogen energy technologies, to developing targeted cancer treatments, to continuing our global leadership in environmental remediation—we are driven by impact, innovation, and purpose.

What We Offer: A Total Rewards Package

We believe in taking care of our people. Here’s what you can expect as part of our team:

Paid time off: vacation, sick, personal, and floater days

Benefits effective Day One – no waiting period

Tuition support to help you keep learning and growing

A defined-benefit pension plan or a defined-contribution pension plan, depending on your employee group, to support your long term financial security

Do Our Priorities Resonate with You?

Delivering clean energy for today and tomorrow

Restoring and protecting the environment

Contributing to the health of Canadians

If so, you’ll feel right at home at CNL!

Location: Hybrid

Located in the heart of the Ottawa Valley, our Chalk River site offers a beautiful natural setting with forests, lakes, and wildlife right at your doorstep. Surrounding communities such as Deep River, Petawawa, and Pembroke provide access to excellent recreation and a great quality of life.

Please note: This is a hybrid position, with a combination of remote work and onsite presence at our Chalk River Laboratory, Ontario.

Our Commitment to Equity, Diversity & Inclusion

At CNL, we are committed to fostering an environment that promotes equity, diversity, and inclusion. We celebrate and welcome employees, stakeholders, and partners of all backgrounds and identities. Click here to read all about it!

We are proud to uphold a workplace culture grounded in our Core Values:

Respect

Teamwork

Accountability

Safety

Integrity

Excellence

These values drive our employment practices and ensure meaningful career development opportunities and accommodations for all employees.

CNL is an equal opportunity employer. If you require accommodation during any phase of the hiring process, please let us know via . All requests will be handled with confidentiality.

CNL operates on sites located on the traditional lands, waterways and ceded and unceded territories of Indigenous peoples. CNL recognizes and affirms all First Nations, Métis communities and Inuit in this land we now know as Canada. We acknowledge, respect and seek to better understand Indigenous history, rights and title on the lands where we work and develop projects. We honour and respect the importance of the relationship between Indigenous peoples and their lands, waters and territories.