Kinectrics is a wholly owned subsidiary of BWX Technologies focused on providing life cycle management services in the energy and utility sector. We develop innovative solutions for the global electricity and medical industries, helping empower a sustainable future. Trusted by clients worldwide, our employees provide expertise in engineering, testing, and inspection across a wide range of services. With offices worldwide and independent laboratories and testing facilities, we collaborate closely with clients to ensure utility assets perform safely, reliably, and efficiently throughout their entire life cycle.
Kinectrics takes pride in being consistently ranked as one of the best places to work in the energy and utility industry, where purpose and people mean as much as innovation and growth. That’s why we choose only the best and brightest to join us. To keep pace with the expanding energy and utility sector, Kinectrics has grown from a company of 300 to over 1,000 in only the last few years - and we aren’t looking to slow down. Join our diverse, supportive workplace for a rewarding career in the electricity industry.
Visit our website to learn more: www.kinectrics.com
The Opportunity
Employment Type: Permanent
Employment Level: Senior
Location: 800 Kipling Avenue, Toronto, ON
Department: Nuclear Equipment Solutions
Reports to: Manager, Mechanical Design
Hours per week: 37.5
Salary Range: $120k - $145k. Exact compensation may vary depending on the individual experience and qualifications of each candidate. Applicants with greater or less than the minimum qualifications for this posted opportunity may be considered for alternate opportunities.
What We Offer
At Kinectrics, employees are recognized for their knowledge, experience, and contributions while working in a highly technical and challenging environment. Kinectrics puts you in the driver’s seat of your own career, setting you up alongside industry experts who will help you develop the skills essential to your professional growth in a dynamic, entrepreneurial, and rewarding work culture.
- Purpose: The work we do each day helps communities around the world. Find satisfaction in work that really matters, working alongside and as part of the best and brightest in the industry.
- Growth: To keep pace with Canada’s expanding energy and utility sector, we are growing more each day, which means more opportunities for you. We encourage our employees to grow alongside our company thanks to a number of significant training and personal development opportunities.
- Innovation: Our staff proudly develop innovations that push the industry forward.
- Diversity: The company is dedicated to promoting diversity in its workforce, up to and including the senior management level. Our diversity committee ensures we stay up to date on leading trends and best practices, creating a desirable workspace for each and every one of our employees.
- Total Compensation: Your talent deserves to be recognized. Kinectrics offers a competitive total compensation package unmatched by most industries throughout North America. Salary is just one component of the total rewards you will receive when working for Kinectrics. Other elements may also include pay for performance programs (merit pay and discretionary annual performance bonuses), comprehensive health benefits and wellness programs, membership discounts, employee referral bonus, eligibility for our pension plan, career development programs, and professional development/educational reimbursements.
Accountabilities: How You Will Make an Impact
- Provide senior mechanical engineering leadership for the design, fabrication, procurement, integration, testing, commissioning, and troubleshooting of nuclear equipment, skid-based process systems, fusion fuel-cycle equipment.
- Act as technical lead and accountable engineer for assigned mechanical scopes, including design basis development, technical decision-making, design verification, supplier technical oversight, and resolution of engineering issues.
- Prepare, review, and approve design packages which may include fabrication drawings, piping and instrumentation diagrams, design calculations, general arrangement drawings, detailed fabrication drawings, technical specifications, bills of material, failure mode and effects analyses, test plans, and procurement documentation.
- Perform and oversee mechanical design tasks, including equipment sizing and selection for pumps, tanks, vessels, heat exchangers, recombiners, distillation columns, dryers, humidifiers, valves, piping, supports, and related process equipment.
- Generate, review, and direct CAD models and drawings using accepted engineering and drafting practices. Working knowledge of drafting software such as SolidWorks, or equivalent tools is required.
- Lead functional testing, factory acceptance testing, commissioning support, field issue resolution, and engineering investigations in accordance with Kinectrics quality program requirements.
- Provide technical direction to engineers, designers, analysts, suppliers, and fabrication partners while retaining individual contributor responsibility for complex design, analysis, review, and problem-solving tasks.
- Interface with clients, utilities, constructors, procurement partners, suppliers, and internal stakeholders throughout the project lifecycle, from concept development through detailed design, fabrication, installation, testing, and close-out.
- Integrate mechanical designs with process, instrumentation and controls, electrical, software, safety, licensing, and quality requirements to provide complete engineered solutions.
- Support fusion energy and tritium fuel-cycle projects involving containment, transfer, separation, detritiation, purification, storage, handling, and monitoring systems where mechanical design interfaces with process and nuclear safety requirements.
- Lead technical reviews, design risk assessments, constructability reviews, supplier document reviews, and acceptance of fabrication, assembly, inspection, leak testing, and test procedures.
- Ensure customer satisfaction through clear technical communication, timely issue resolution, disciplined project controls, and practical engineering judgement.
- Support proposal development, estimates, technical approaches, basis of estimate preparation, and customer-facing technical content for internal and external opportunities.
- Perform other duties as required.
What You Need to Succeed
- Strong customer orientation and commitment to Kinectrics and Business Unit goals.
- Demonstrated ability to lead complex technical work, make sound engineering decisions, and take accountability for mechanical design scope, technical quality, cost, and schedule.
- Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers and designers, coordinate multidisciplinary work, and provide effective technical supervision without losing direct technical contribution.
- Demonstrated ability to work in multidisciplinary team situations with clients, suppliers, fabrication partners, construction partners, and internal stakeholders.
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects or work packages of varying complexity while maintaining technical accuracy and clear priorities.
- High initiative in identifying technical risks, proposing practical solutions, resolving design issues, and improving engineering methods.
- Strong oral and written communication skills, including technical report writing, design review presentation, supplier correspondence, and customer-facing technical discussion.
- Proven skills with engineering and project tools including Microsoft Office, Microsoft Project, CAD software, and calculation or analysis tools relevant to mechanical equipment design.
- Minimum 8+ years of relevant engineering experience in mechanical design, fabrication, procurement, testing, commissioning, troubleshooting, or project execution for complex equipment or process systems.
- Practical experience with nuclear equipment, skid-based process systems, custom mechanical equipment, pressure-boundary components, process piping, containment systems, or equipment used in radioactive or hazardous service.
- Experience with fusion energy systems, tritium fuel-cycle systems, detritiation, isotope separation, gas handling, purification, storage, or related process equipment is considered a strong asset.
- Knowledge and interpretation of Canadian Nuclear Standards and other national or international standards applicable to mechanical equipment, pressure equipment, process systems, testing, and nuclear quality programs.
- Knowledge of nuclear quality program requirements, quality assurance practices, design verification, supplier quality surveillance, inspection, and acceptance testing.
- Strong understanding and commitment to human performance principles, with nuclear station, nuclear laboratory, or nuclear supplier experience preferred.
- Experience acting as a lead, responsible engineer, design authority delegate, reviewer, approver, or accountable engineer for mechanical engineering work packages is required.
- Must have excellent communications, technical report writing, design documentation, and oral presentation skills.
- A four-year university degree in mechanical engineering or equivalent is required; chemical, nuclear, or related engineering background may be considered where supported by relevant mechanical systems experience.
- Professional Engineer of Ontario designation, or eligibility for Professional Engineers Ontario registration, is required.
- Ability to successfully obtain and maintain nuclear site security clearance.
- Travel to site(s) may be required
This role requires the successful candidate to complete the security clearance process. The security clearance process is conducted in accordance with applicable regulatory requirements of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) and the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) and may take up to 12 months to complete.
Kinectrics Inc is strongly committed to diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) and welcomes applications from all individuals. To learn more about our commitments please visit our diversity, equity and inclusion and indigenous relations pages.
As part of your application, you will be asked to complete a voluntary diversity survey. The collection of self-identification data is driven by our commitment to DE&I and ensures Kinectrics' continuous review and improvement of its programs. The information that you provide is strictly confidential and your responses will only be used for statistical purposes. Your responses do not affect your candidacy in any way.
Kinectrics welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.
This posting is for an existing vacancy.
