General Overview:

The Performance Improvement Officer has a principal role to support safety culture improvement activities through the development, implementation, measurement and adjustment of the Human Performance program.  The Performance Improvement Officer will:

·         Facilitate/implement actions that will help support development and sustainability of a strong positive safety culture at AECL.

·         Have a highly developed set of inter-personal and written communication skills that provide the foundation for accomplishing a host of tasks focused on increasing safety awareness and improving safety-minded behaviours at AECL.

Duties:

The Performance Improvement Officer will support managers and these services will include but are not exclusive to:

·         Leading self-assessments of safety culture;

·         Formulating, coordinating and facilitating human performance improvement strategies to address departmental issues;

·         Overseeing and analyzing data from Observation and Coaching;

·         Providing guidance and mentoring managers and staff as required to improve performance;

·         Leading benchmarking activities;

·         Implementation, execution and evaluation of event free tools and improvement programs;

·         Monitor and analyze OPEX trends data on safety culture to identify precursors to problems and use information to persuade and influence managers to develop actions for improvements;

·         Preparing program documents as required, including standards, reports and procedures;

·         Developing training materials in collaboration with the project Training Department;

·         Delivering Human Performance training as required;

·         Writing and implementing effective communications and promotions;

·         Writing and producing Lessons Learned packages and other targeted information materials;

·         Providing support to management and established committees;

·         Conducting research and data gathering on safety culture and human performance issues using Internet and industry contacts;

·         Collaborating with other organizational groups to achieve common safety-culture related objectives;

·         Promoting organizational learning by developing and distributing OPEX;

·         Liaise with other retube and nuclear organizations to obtain and share OPEX.

Qualifications:

·         University degree / college diploma plus a minimum of five years comprehensive work experience in operations, engineering, maintenance, or research environment OR the equivalent experience resulting in sound knowledge of a related specialty in safety, training, leadership and communications.

·         A strong understanding of nuclear safety requirements and safety culture;

·         Excellent organization and execution skills;

·         Excellent and proven inter-personal skills with an ability to work well with all levels of the organization;

·         Ability to effectively communicate, written and verbally, in order to ensure accurate messaging with advanced speaking and presentation skills;

·         Familiarity with change management and safety issues and the ability to develop strategies that will address issues and concerns;

·         Strong priority management and project management skills with superior ability to manage multiple projects with diverse requirements and various suppliers to tight deadlines;

·         Familiarity and insight into overall operations in retube, related technology, functions of different organizational groups and inter-relationships;

·         Thorough knowledge of oral and written English, composition, technical terminology, and ability to prepare a variety of effective, well-written, high quality information materials and reports;

·         Ability to convert complex technical data and information into terms understandable by AECL’s many diverse stakeholders;

·         Knowledge and experience in the production of training and communications materials;

·         Demonstrated ability in problem analysis and action planning;

·         Strong research/verification skills using the internet and other information sources;

·         Advanced PC skills (spreadsheet, word processing, presentation software, etc.);

·         Demonstrated strong work ethics, sound judgment, tact and diplomacy;

·         Ability to work independently, with little supervision, and in cross-functional teams;

·         High degree of initiative, drive and innovation with the objective to develop informed and positive advocates for safety;

·         Flexibility to travel and work extended hours.

AECL has an Employment Equity Program and encourages applications from women, Aboriginal Peoples, visible minorities and persons with disabilities. 

We thank all applicants for their interest.  Only those candidates selected for an interview will be contacted. The position will remain posted until the position has been filled.