Discipline Lead – Mechanical/Process Engineering

91658
Tiverton, Ontario
Contract
4 days ago

Job Title: Discipline Lead – Mechanical/Process Engineering

Location: Tiverton, ON (Hybrid)

Estimated Duration: 12 Months

Discipline Lead – Mechanical / Process

 

About the Opportunity

Our client, a nuclear power generating station in Ontario, is undertaking a rare multi-year greenfield capital build: a new water treatment facility being constructed on an active nuclear campus. To support this project through detailed design, procurement, construction, commissioning, and turnover, our client is adding dedicated discipline-level technical leadership to their project team.
You will represent the client's interests, review and challenge design deliverables, own technical decision-making for the mechanical/process scope, and ensure the plant that gets built is safe, operable, maintainable, and aligned to project scope, schedule, and budget.

What You'll Do

  • Act as the project's subject matter lead for all mechanical and process systems (raw/feed water, pretreatment, UF/RO/membrane treatment, chemical dosing, tanks, pumps, skids, piping, valves, utility and drain systems).
  • Review and provide technical oversight of mechanical/process design deliverables (PFDs/P&IDs, equipment lists, design criteria, line lists) produced by the external design vendor.
  • Lead technical evaluations, trade-off studies, and design reviews (HAZOP/FMEA/constructability), and drive discipline comments to closure.
  • Own scope adherence — validate that what's being designed matches committed project scope, flagging and pushing back on unnecessary scope creep.
  • Support procurement: technical scopes of work, bid evaluation, vendor document/drawing review, and Factory Acceptance Test (FAT) participation, including travel to vendor sites.
  • Support construction, commissioning, and turnover: review work packages and installation sequencing, resolve field issues/RFIs, and support handover to operations.
  • Facilitate cross-functional technical workshops and decision meetings, bringing together design, operations, maintenance, commissioning, and construction stakeholders.

What You Bring

  • Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Chemical, or Process Engineering, or related discipline; P.Eng. (or eligibility) preferred.
  • Proven experience delivering water treatment, process, or utility-scale industrial plants — spanning both design and hands-on construction/commissioning (not design-only).
  • Experience with large-diameter industrial piping, pumps, motors, skids, and utility tie-ins.
  • Comfort operating as an independent technical authority in a multi-stakeholder, highly regulated environment; nuclear or other high-governance industrial experience is an asset.
  • A self-starter mindset — someone who drives technical decisions and stakeholder alignment rather than waiting to be directed.

Project Snapshot

  • Multi-year (~6-year) capital project, from current design phase through construction, commissioning, and closeout.
  • High organizational visibility, with senior leadership actively engaged in project decisions.
  • Hybrid on-site model, with on-site frequency increasing as the project moves into detailed design and construction.

The pay range that the employer reasonably expects to pay for this position is between CA$80.00 and CA$90.00

Our voluntary benefits offering includes medical, dental, vision and retirement benefits.

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