Director, Fire & Emergency Management

Position Number: 31029 | Full-Time | 1 opening

About the role

Our Chalk River location is looking for a Director, Fire & Emergency Management, to lead stewardship of a comprehensive fire protection and emergency management program that prevents and mitigates fire-related risks, ensuring our licensed activities never pose an unreasonable risk to people or the environment. This role involves developing strategy, leading a specialized team of subject matter experts, and setting the benchmark for industry best practices in a highly regulated nuclear environment.

Responsibilities

• Develop the mandate, overarching strategy, annual and long-term business plans and budgets to improve the delivery of Fire & Emergency Management at CNL.
• Lead a highly specialized team of Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to deliver the corporate mandate to various sites’ Fire and Emergency Management teams.
• Provide strategic direction, leadership and support to department staff within Fire and EM, enabling them to maximize their effectiveness in developing goals and objectives focused on providing services and/or products for customers/stakeholders.
• Demonstrate leadership in fire and emergency response and take responsibility for incorporating safety considerations and risk management into plans and programs.
• Ensure the development of new and/or refining existing policies in accordance with current and changing regulations, procedures and best practices relevant to fire and emergency response in the diversified CNL work environment.
• Establish performance measures with a view to improving fire and emergency response.
• Other duties as assigned by your manager.

Education

• A relevant university degree (e.g., Fire Engineering) or equivalent experience in a related discipline, and/or a diploma in fire protection systems, fire protection technology, emergency management and response, or a related field.

Experience

• Minimum 10 years of demonstrated leadership experience in a fire protection and/or emergency response role within a complex, multi-site, industrial environment.
• Experience managing cultural change: teamwork (employees, clients, unions), negotiation, marketing (of ideas/benefits), presentation and coaching.
• Experience providing strategic leadership for projects, ensuring alignment with business objectives while managing scope, schedule, budget, risk, and stakeholder expectations.
• Experience leading investigations, root cause analyses,