Contract Supervisor

Job title:

Contract Supervisor

Company

Canadian Nuclear Laboratories

Job description

Are you looking for a role that will challenge you? Can you see yourself collaborating with internal customers, contract leads and stakeholders to identify procurement demands? Would you like to be in a role where you will produce high-quality written documentation? If you answered yes, apply for our contract supervisor position today as this may be your job!What will you be doing!

• Leading a team of supply chain staff/contractors in both pre and post-contract management activities covering a potentially wide range of scope type, complexity and risk.
• Ensure appropriate resource capability and capacity within their team and allocate resources to procurements commensurate with the risk, value, and complexity.
• Promoting and ensuring a customer service-orientated approach to delivery requirements by recognizing relevant constraints, timelines and budgets.
• Collaborating with internal customers, other contract leads, and stakeholders to identify procurement demand, developing CNL’s Procurement Plan, and devising long-term development strategies for respective contract portfolios.
• Performing analysis and diagnostics to determine industry and consumer trends, including spending profile and demand forecasting that supports market profiling and strategic planning.
• Managing, facilitating, conducting, and supporting the end-to-end procurement lifecycle (pre and post-contract) and those undertaken by your team, in accordance with Supply Chain Policy, Management Control Procedures and other relevant CNL Policies and Procedures, including:

• Ensuring appropriate team and stakeholders are identified and engaged to support procurement;
• Ensuring appropriate market engagement activities, bidder listing and qualification of suppliers is performed;
• Designing, drafting and managing solicitations;
• Evaluating and selecting contractors/suppliers;
• Evaluating and responding to clarifications, complaints, challenges and disputes;
• Negotiating agreements and other relevant commercial matters;
• Conducting contractor onboarding, relationship management, administration and performance management/oversight, including appropriate financial, change and risk management.
• Ensuring contract closeout, liabilities management, and lessons learned; and

• Ensuring appropriate contemporaneous records are maintained.
• Working with stakeholders and staff in providing authoritative advice and recommending appropriate individual contract strategies and processes.

• Encompassing the merits of various options and approaches to deliver the intended outcome of procurement, deliver the best value, and mitigate risk to CNL while ensuring the lessons learned are applied.
• Working with other functional groups, including Quality Assurance, Safety, and Finance, as required throughout the procurement lifecycle.
• Reviewing and authorizing procurement documentation and commitments in accordance with delegated authority.
• Working with and seeking appropriate advice from CNL Legal in the determination of contract risks, insurances, conflict of interest, appropriate contract models, and potential disputes.
• Ensuring that structured and trusted relationship with contractor’s vendors has been established to realize intended benefits (including price and quality) and establishing objective contracts performance measures and reporting within their portfolio.
• Developing exit or improvement strategies for underperforming or unsuccessful contracts.
• Seeking and implementing opportunities for continuous improvement within the Supply Chain Function and contributing to functional initiatives.
• Providing training, coaching, mentoring and appropriate feedback to team members on Supply Chain arrangements and performance.
• Ensuring effective ongoing communication and reporting to internal customers and Supply Chain Function as required for all activities within portfolio including progress and performance against schedule/targets and other measures which may have been agreed.
• Responding to situations to contain/ mitigate short to mid-term risk within team in accordance with procedures.
• Identifying and recommending improvements to moderately complex processes that affect own area and other clients.
• Encouraging and supporting innovation, among others, and extending to related areas.
• Providing input on corporate scale change.
• Other duties as assigned by your manager.

What we are looking for:

• Education

• Post-secondary education in Business, Law, Engineering, Science, IT, or Technical discipline.
• Certification or enrolment within professional development programs and / or associations such as the Supply Chain Management Association (SCMA), or the Institute for Supply Management (ISM).
• Experience

• Minimum 10 years’ experience, is preferred, of progressive contracting experience, preferably in Procurements of Goods (including under quality programs), services, and/or construction and project management background, subject to complex technical, engineering and/or regulatory environments.
• Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Appreciation for strong work ethics and a high level of professionalism.
• Self-starting, motivated and creative, with the ability to work with a high degree of autonomy.
• Strong emotional intelligence and communication skills to work with more potential stakeholders.
• Effective analytical abilities to interpret data and use to develop strategies and tactics.
• Functional knowledge of Canadian ( Federal and Provincial) Contract Law commensurate with the position’s accountabilities.
• Sound knowledge and appreciation of ethical contracting and business conduct and practice.
• Functional knowledge and proficiency with systems-based tools such as Microsoft Office suite.
• Exemplary organization and planning skills, with a particular emphasis on detail and team orientation.
• Demonstrated ability to produce high-quality written documentation.
• Demonstrated ability to lead, mentor, motivate and align staff, internal customers and suppliers.
• Demonstrated proficiency with Enterprise Resource Planning tools such as Oracle Purchasing and IProcurement modules considered 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.”

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 works with employees across our Canadian locations to enable a hybrid workforce where possible. Our Hybrid employees work with their manager to establish expectations for when they will be on-site vs. working from home.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 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.#LI-HYBRID

Expected salary

Location

Chalk River, ON

Job date

Wed, 06 Nov 2024 01:37:16 GMT

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