Job Category: Engineering
Location: Saskatoon
Work Contract: Reg Full-Time (K1)
At Cameco we understand the value of a diverse workforce and we embrace, encourage and support workplace inclusion and diversity. New ideas, perspectives, experiences, and expertise make Cameco stronger. We are committed to building a diverse workforce reflective of the communities we operate in. Our vision is to create a culture where inclusion is the goal, and a diverse and representative workforce is our measure of success. Cameco is committed to providing an inclusive selection process, free from systemic barriers. support employment equity and encourage all members of underrepresented groups (i.e., women, Indigenous peoples, persons with disabilities and members of racialized groups/visible minorities) to voluntarily disclose. Cameco welcomes applicants from all backgrounds, abilities, and experiences to apply.
About Us
Cameco is one of the largest global providers of the uranium fuel needed to energize a clean-air world. Utilities around the world rely on our nuclear fuel products to generate safe, reliable, emissions-free nuclear power. Cameco’s corporate office is based in Saskatoon. We have mining operations and projects in northern Saskatchewan, Kazakhstan, the United States and Australia. We are also a leading supplier of uranium refining, conversion, and fuel manufacturing services from our operations in Ontario.
Key Lake, located in northern Saskatchewan, is the world’s largest high-grade uranium mill. The uranium milled at Key Lake is used for nuclear fuel products, which utilities around the world rely on to generate safe, reliable, emissions-free nuclear power. Cameco is one of the largest global providers of the uranium fuel needed to energize a clean-air world.
The Role
Reporting to the manager, reliability engineering, as a key member of the reliability team, you will support Cameco’s transition into a high reliability organization by performing asset maintenance strategy selection, root cause analysis, developing risk mitigation plans, minimizing asset life cycle cost, supporting the loss elimination process and performing preventive maintenance optimization, including the implementation into Bentley APM. Although this is a corporate office position, you will be required to travel to site as required.
In this role, you will:
- Work a hybrid role, with one week remote and one week (Monday-Thursday) at Cameco’s Key Lake operation
- Create and optimize asset strategies to increase equipment availability using reliability methodologies
- Lead the loss elimination program at Key Lake to identify bad actors and reduce the impact to the operation
- Perform root cause failure analysis on a range of physical equipment, plans, and processes to determine solutions to repeated or major equipment failures
- Execute the reliability portion of capital projects by reviewing project designs and equipment selection for concerns related to overall lifetime reliability
- Develop, with other reliability engineers and process owners, programs and procedures in support of Cameco’s journey to industry leading reliability
- Collaborate with on-site operators, tradespersons, superintendents, managers, and other engineers in the delivery of your work
Required:
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering (mechanical, chemical, or electrical)
- Professional Engineer designation (P. Eng)
- Minimum of seven years of progressive industrial engineering experience with several years focussed on reliability engineering
- Equivalent combination of education and work experience will be considered
- Experience with reliability engineering principles such as RCM, RCA, FMEA, FTA, RBD, CA and LCCA
- Eligible for registration with the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Saskatchewan (APEGS) Travel to site every other week by aircraft
Recommended:
- Knowledge of SAP or Bentley AssetWise APM software
- Strong background in RCA, FMEA, RBD, FTA, MTA, RCM, PM, CA, Pd.M. or LCC
- Familiarity with AWB Reliability Modelling Software
- Skilled in Weibull/Crow-AMSAA Analysis, System Modelling or Optimization of Asset Life Cycle decisions
- Continuous improvement certification (Lean Six Sigma Green Belt)
- Effective communication, collaboration, coaching/mentoring and interpersonal skills
- Excellent time management, analytical and technical writing skills
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office
Conditions of Employment:
Cameco is proud to offer a competitive total reward package which includes:
- Competitive compensation program with base and variable pay
- Flexible health, drug, dental, and vision plan with a health spending and personal spending account
- Fixed benefits including employee and dependant life, AD&D, disability benefits and paid vacation leave
- Employee & Family Assistance Programs
- RRSP and RPP matching program
- Career development opportunities Relocation costs
Cameco is an employment equity employer and aims to achieve gender parity, and as such, preference will be given to qualified members of equity groups. We are strengthened by the diverse backgrounds of experiences and encourage applicants with various levels of expertise to apply, as equivalent combination of education and work experience are considered.
Req ID #: 40187
Posted: August 1, 2024
Posting end date: August 16, 2024
Salary Range: $127,000 - $158,000
The physical and psychological safety of our employee’s 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.
