Junior Supervisor

October 4 2025
Industries Energy
Categories Management, Administration,
Chalk River, ON • Full time

Are you ready to lead a team and make a real impact? As a Junior Supervisor, you'll guide your team to ensure safety, compliance, and efficient operations. You'll help maintain equipment, enforce safety practices, and ensure adherence to regulations. If you're ready to take on responsibility in a dynamic environment, this role is for you. Apply today and be part of a team that makes a difference!

What will you be doing!

  • Assisting with Supervisor Log and daily field work notes.
  • Participating in the IWC process to develop work plans and strategies.
  • Supporting emergency response and resolving non-business hour calls.
  • Collaborating with Trades, Projects, and support groups to address issues.
  • Acting as Job Lead for various field activities.
  • Ensuring job site compliance, safety practices, and maintaining facility standards.
  • Leading Plan of Day (POD) meetings and ensuring safety and permit adherence.
  • People Development & Employee Engagement:
  • Providing oversight, training, and feedback to staff.
  • Documenting observations and escalating issues when necessary.
  • Supporting the Supervisor in managing timesheets, leave, and performance.
  • Promoting Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, fostering a collaborative work environment.
  • Enforcing the organization's Code of Conduct and core values.
  • Ensuring adherence to safety equipment, policies, and radiation protection.
  • Establishing a safe work environment and ensuring all safety programs are followed.
  • Other duties as assigned by your manager.

What we are looking for:

  • Education
    • Completion of Secondary School diploma or equivalent. Post-secondary education in a related field is preferred.
  • Experience
    • A minimum of 2 years' of related technical or maintenance experience and demonstration of strong leadership skills is required.
  • Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
    • Well-developed leadership and communication skills, with the ability to foster a collaborative, team-oriented work environment in a unionized setting.
    • Demonstrated interpersonal skills, with the ability to work effectively with customers, colleagues, and management.
    • Self-motivated with excellent oral and written communication skills, able to interact with peers, departments, and external vendors.
    • Skilled in initiating and facilitating discussions, effectively communicating challenging information.
    • Confident in addressing unacceptable behaviors or actions in the workplace.
    • Knowledge and application of radiation protection principles, measurements, and contamination control.
    • Ability to read and interpret drawings, specification sheets, and detailed instructions.
    • Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite.
    • Understanding of waste management principles and volume reduction methodologies.
    • Capable of producing plans and schedules.
    • Knowledge of Canada Labour Code Part II and Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System (WHMIS).
    • Knowledge of CNSC regulations related to decommissioning activities is an asset.
    • Understanding of applicable codes for operation, maintenance, and decommissioning of nuclear sites is an asset.
    • Experience in soil excavations and remediation is an asset.
  • 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:

  • Capable of performing physically demanding work, including wearing the required industrial and radiological PPE&C for entering all radiological zones
  • Standing and walking frequently at various job sites overseeing field work
  • Capable of working indoors and outdoors, year-round, in all weather conditions.
  • Vigilance to building and radiation alarms
  • Constant video monitoring of high hazard work activities
  • May be required to work a night shift on specific occasions
  • 4 x 10 Schedule

Why CNL?

Does working with a team across Canada to advance nuclear science and technology for a clean and secure world speak to you? We're reinventing ourselves to be the pacesetters so we can lead the charge in solving the problems that matter, like building the next generation of clean nuclear and hydrogen energy solutions, developing new and better-targeted cancer treatments, and continuing to lead the world in environmental remediation.

We offer a complete total rewards package :

  • Paid time off (vacation, sick, floater & personal);
  • Benefits effective day one, that's right, no waiting period;
  • Tuition support
  • and a pension!


Do Our Priorities Resonate with You?

  • Clean energy for today and tomorrow.
  • Restore and protect the Environment.
  • Contribute to the health of Canadians.

Location:

CNL's Chalk River laboratory is nestled in the Ottawa Valley and affords our employees an environmentally pristine area with extensive forests, hills, and numerous small lakes. These support a variety of wildlife typical to the southern edge of the Canadian Shield. Many surrounding towns, such as Pembroke, Petawawa, and Deep River, provide unparalleled outdoor adventures at your doorstep!

CNL is committed to providing an atmosphere free from barriers that promotes equity, diversity, and inclusion in achieving our mission. CNL welcomes and celebrates employees, stakeholders, and partners of all racial, cultural, and ethnic identities. Please read here for more on our DE&I Commitment.

CNL also supports a workplace environment and corporate culture built on our Core Values: Respect, Teamwork, Accountability, Safety, Integrity, and Excellence. These values encourage equitable employment practices and career prospects, including accommodations for all employees.

CNL is committed to being an equal-opportunity employer. If you require accommodation measures during any phase of the hiring process, please indicate via our ATS when applying. All information received regarding accommodation requests will be kept confidential.

The Chalk River Laboratories site is located on the unceded and unsurrendered territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabe people. As an organization, CNL recognizes and appreciates their historic connection to this place. CNL also recognizes the contributions that First Nations, Métis, Inuit and other Indigenous Peoples have made, both in shaping and strengthening this community in particular, and this province and country as a whole.

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