Big Idea: Career-life choices are made in a recurring cycle of planning, reflecting, adapting, and deciding.
Mark Derikx
Career Profiles
Environmental Health Safety Quality Manager
I help make sure our chemical plant is following legal operating requirements for employee and community safety.
Mark Simmonds
Career Profiles
Marine Surveyor
I survey all different types of ships to make sure they are safe to operate.
Genny Marcoux
Career Profiles
Infrastructure and Security Manager
I manage a team of experts that create a secure environment for our course developers to build virtual computers that our customers used to learn about the products we sell and to learn more about cybersecurity and how to stay secure online.
Heinz Plaumann (he/him)
Career Profiles
Co-founder and CEO
I run a business that offers career, life coaching and training to a wide age range of people.
Sarah Jane Eaton
Career Profiles
Director
I lead a team that is responsible for licensing small modular reactors.
Marty Larabie (he/him)
Career Profiles
Radiation Inspector
I perform radiation safety inspections of persons who use nuclear material.
Rhiannon Cooper (she/her)
Career Profiles
Epidemiologist
I monitor the patterns and trends of infectious diseases across the province.
Dr. Harpreet Kochhar
Career Profiles
President, Public Health Agency of Canada
I am the head of the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC).
Corie Houldsworth
Career Profiles
Inspector
I perform inspections of worksites where radiation is used, stored or transported.
Michelle Henry
Non-Destructive Testing Technician
I inspect metal parts on nuclear reactors to make sure they are in good working order.
Annie Martin
Career Profiles
Portfolio Manager for the Health Beyond Initiative
I coordinate the different activities of our initiative, do strategic planning to define its vision and objectives and collaborate with other international space agencies.
Julie Leblanc (she/her)
Women in STEM Special Advisor
My work is to support girls and women to pursue and education and careers in STEM.
Daniela Torelli
Welding Instructor
I teach the next generation of welders.
Farah Qaiser
Director Of Research and Policy
I carry out research and lead policy efforts to improve the government’s use of science and evidence when making decisions.
Summer Symposium Series: Climate Career Resources
Backgrounders
A career focused on climate change and sustainability would let you help people by working to help solve the biggest problems of our time.