Noman Maheri, P.Eng — Nuclear Systems Engineer

02 —About

Bridging heavy tooling and the home bench.

I hold a degree in Nuclear Engineering from Ontario Tech University. Today I work as a Systems Engineer in the nuclear sector for ATS Industrial Automation, deployed heavily at the Bruce Power site. My work spans design calculations, FMEAs, risk assessments, integration, and on-site commissioning.

A big part of my recent focus has been acting as the tool lead for the MCR Auto Calandria Tube Installation — taking a complex piece of nuclear tooling end-to-end. Alongside that I've contributed to decommissioning work for KHNP Wolsong-1 and waste-management systems for Canadian Nuclear Laboratories.

03 —Work

Where I've been.

2021 — now

ATS Industrial Automation

Systems Engineer · Nuclear

Lead tooling for Major Component Replacement at Bruce Power — design calculations, FMEAs, system integration, and on-site commissioning of nuclear-grade automation. Spearheaded the first-ever robotic execution inside a CANDU reactor.

Cambridge, ON / Bruce Power

MCR FMEA Commissioning

2019 — 2020

Kinectrics

Engineering & Research Assistant

Hands-on R&D and component-failure forensics on HV/MV/LV power cables; built MATLAB tools for data acquisition, instrument automation, and statistical analysis of test data.

Etobicoke, ON

MATLAB HV cables DAQ

2018

Logihedron

Summer Student · St. Michael's Hospital

Redesigned and optimized logistics databases with smart search at St. Michael's Hospital, and automated Excel reporting to flag equipment-usage trends and prevent overstocking.

Toronto, ON

DB redesign Excel

2021

Ontario Tech · OPG Darlington

Capstone · SMR Layout

Capstone with OPG's Darlington New Nuclear team developing an optimized site layout for upcoming Small Modular Reactor construction.

Oshawa, ON

SMR Layout

04 —Experience

Robotics, MCR tooling, and reactor decommissioning.

The ATS × Bruce Power Inspect East team, with Noman Maheri highlighted in the centre.

Me

The ATS × Bruce Power Inspect East team — Noman, centre.

Nuclear · robotics & tooling — 001

— 001Nuclear · robotics & tooling

MCR Auto Calandria tooling — first-ever robotic execution on a CANDU reactor.

Tool lead for the Major Component Replacement (MCR) Auto Calandria Tube Inspection project — owning the full development cycle and system integration, and spearheading the Auto Inspect initiative that achieved industry-leading robotic execution inside a CANDU reactor for the first time ever.

End-to-end ownership of tool development and system integration
First successful autonomous robotic inspection run on a CANDU unit
Design calculations, risk assessments and FMEAs
Systems design, verification and validation through on-reactor commissioning

ATS Bruce Power Robotics MCR FMEA

In the news

Bruce Power — milestone announcement → ATS Industrial Automation — feature →

Nuclear · waste & decommissioning — 002

— 002Nuclear · waste & decommissioning

Waste, fuel and decommissioning consulting.

Specialized consulting across domestic and international nuclear projects — from fuel encapsulation to decommissioning dose and shielding analysis, communicated directly to global customers.

Fuel encapsulation project consulting
Built & operated a CNL low-to-high-level waste sorting facility
KHNP Wolsong-1 decommissioning — dose, waste & shielding reports
Led international customer meetings on technical findings

CNL KHNP Shielding Dose

R&D · thermal aging & automation — 003

— 003R&D · thermal aging & automation

Thermal aging studies and MATLAB test automation.

At Kinectrics, ran accelerated thermal-aging R&D on low-voltage cameras to characterise how they degrade and behave across their service life — and built MATLAB applications that automated the test rigs, acquired instrument data, and ran the statistical and graphical analysis.

Accelerated thermal-aging studies on low-voltage cameras to model long-term degradation and behaviour
Component-failure forensics & diagnostics on HV/MV/LV power cables
MATLAB applications automating tool & instrument testing end-to-end
Statistical and graphical analysis of acquired test data

Kinectrics MATLAB Thermal aging DAQ

Engineering · systems & V&V — 004

— 004Engineering · systems & V&V

Core systems engineering and validation.

Systems analysis across the full engineering lifecycle — bringing nuclear-grade rigour from kinematics, thermal and metrology through to verification, validation, and design review.

Kinematics, thermal, accuracy, cycle-time, vibration, metrology & reliability analysis
Design reviews with vendors, customers and internal engineering groups
SMR layout Capstone with the OPG Darlington New Nuclear team

SMR OPG

05 —Credentials