Job Category: Trades
Location: Port Hope
Work Contract: Reg Full-Time (K1)
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Position and Responsibilities
Reporting to the superintendent, maintenance, you are responsible for supervising maintenance activities at the Port Hope conversion facility UF6 plant. This is an excellent opportunity for an individual with superior people and problem solving skills who is committed to continuous improvement.
Responsibilities will include:
- Directly supervise a team of unionized tradespeople
- Lead and support site’s objective to improve safety performance by working collaboratively with all employees. Focus includes conventional safety management activities such as accident / incident investigation & corrective actions, advancing a safety culture and behaviours as well as ensuring work is performed safely following regulatory codes and site procedures
- Continuously improve maintenance activities for employee skills as well as equipment efficiency and availability to support site targets and goals
- Encourage and facilitate employee participation in improvement efforts
- Potentially, the position may be utilized in a combination role with shutdown planning and project management
Education and Qualifications
Requirements for the position:
- Trade certificate, technical diploma or degree in mechanical field
- 3-5 years’ experience in supervision or leading teams in a unionized, heavy industrial or manufacturing environment
- Excellent leadership, communication (written and verbal) and relationship building skills
- Strong problem solving skills using established methodologies (5 Why, Fishbone, Cause Map etc.)
- Strong computer skills; SAP CMMS, Microsoft Office software etc.
- Flexible work hours, able to work a continental shift
- Clear criminal background check
Assets:
- Experience working in a continuous processing environment and / or Lean manufacturing certificate
- MMP knowledge or designation
- Understanding of Process Failure Mode Effects Analysis
- Experience with implementation and use of predictive maintenance strategies
Safety sensitive position
Job ID: 42275
Posted: June 11, 2026
Posting end date: July 3, 2026
This position is eligible for the employee referral program.
The physical and psychological safety of our employees is a top priority at Cameco. We invite candidates to voluntarily disclose accommodation requirements, if contacted in relation to a job opportunity. Information received will be addressed confidentially and Cameco’s Workplace Inclusion and Accommodation Program document is available upon request. Successful candidates for all positions that will work at Safety Sensitive Sites or Safety Sensitive Positions must take and pass a Substance Test, which includes marijuana, as a condition of employment. Marijuana remains in a user’s system for about 30 days, so applicants who recently used marijuana recreationally should not expect to pass a substance test.
