Director, Workforce Management

BWXT Medical Ltd. is a trusted source for the development and manufacture of nuclear medicine for biotechnology, life sciences, pharmaceutical companies and academia partners. Headquartered in Kanata, Ontario, BWXT Medical Ltd. employs over 300 highly-skilled people in Kanata and Vancouver, British Columbia. 

Welcome to BWXT
We believe in empowering our employees and cultivating a dynamic workplace that fosters growth and collaboration. Whether you’re an experienced professional or just starting your career, you'll find opportunities to challenge yourself, learn from seasoned experts, and contribute to nuclear innovation. We required a diverse range of skills to support our work in the markets that drive our business and welcome candidates from all backgrounds and life stages who are passionate about making a difference.

Position Overview:

The Director of Work Management & Resource Planning is a critical leadership role within a high-intensity radio-isotope production environment. This individual is responsible for ensuring that all short-term and long-term work activities—across all BWXT Medical Production, QA, R&D, Projects, and supporting functions—are planned, resourced, sequenced, and executed in a way that meets production targets while enabling future growth. 

Location:

On-site in Kanata, ON

Your Day to Day as a Director of Workforce Management:

• Lead the integrated planning process for all work across Production, QA, R&D, and Project Engineering, ensuring alignment with daily, weekly, and long-range production objectives. 
• Develop and maintain rolling schedules that balance operational demands with R&D experiments, facility maintenance, and project execution activities.
• Coordinate outage planning, equipment availability, and facility readiness to ensure production continuity.
• Forecast labour, equipment, and facility requirements to meet both immediate production demands and future business growth.
• Oversee resource allocation across teams to optimize utilization while minimizing bottlenecks or conflict between operational and development priorities.
• Support capital planning efforts by identifying constraints, capacity limitations, and future resource needs.
• Work closely with Production leadership to ensure daily and weekly work schedules support throughput, quality, and compliance targets.
• Partner with R&D teams to integrate experiments, trials, and technology development activities into the production environment without disruption.
• Collaborate with Project Managers to schedule construction, commissioning, and improvement projects in a manner that minimizes impacts to operations.
• Coordinate with Finance to align resource planning with budget cycles, labour forecasts, and cost-efficiency goals.
• Use KPIs, forecasting tools, and capacity models to monitor workload balance, resource utilization, and schedule adherence.
• Identify opportunities to streamline processes, reduce downtime, and optimize facility throughput.
• Implement best-practice work management frameworks (e.g., integrated master scheduling, constraint-based planning, daily/weekly production control meetings).
• Ensure all scheduled work complies with regulatory requirements, quality standards, and radiation safety protocols.
• Maintain clear documentation of work planning processes, schedule changes, and resource decisions.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree required
• 8+ years of related experience in a high-pressure production environment, ideally in pharmaceuticals, biotech, nuclear, specialty chemicals, aerospace, or other regulated sectors.
• Demonstrated expertise in work planning, scheduling, and resource management, including short-interval control and long-range planning.
• Experience collaborating across multiple operational and technical functions (Production, Engineering, R&D, QA/QC, Projects).
• Strong analytical and organizational skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines in a dynamic environment.
• Ability to manage ambiguity and competing priorities while maintaining schedule discipline.
• Strong operational judgment and situational awareness in time-sensitive environments.
• Mindset focused on continuous improvement, efficiency, and operational excellence.
• Experience with ERP, scheduling, or asset management systems (e.g., SAP, Maximo, Primavera, MS Project) considered an asset.
• While experience in nuclear medicine or radio-isotope production is an asset, exceptional work planning and cross-functional coordination skills are the primary requirements.