Civil Engineer

Pop quiz:

• Are you passionate about developing sustainable designs for municipal infrastructure?
• Does creating high quality custom solutions for clients excite you?
• Are you a resourceful, clever, and enthusiastic civil engineer with at least 8 years of experience in municipal infrastructure, including transportation, water and sewer design?
• Have you ever considered leading your own practice, but were worried that the amount of time and resources needed would be overwhelming?

If you scored 4 for 4, JLR has a home for you! We’ve opened up a role in our Ottawa office for a talented, entrepreneurial candidate to work alongside the exceptional people in JLR’s municipal group. You’ll be supported by a Platinum Club member of the Canada’s Best Managed Companies program, 100% employee-owned firm that has a long-established reputation for quality services in the municipal sector, while you take on existing clients, develop new relationships and deliver world-class, sustainable solutions for infrastructure assets. Our work spans the gamut from concept development to final commissioning of constructed works and includes master servicing studies, transportation planning and geometric design, sewer and watermain systems analysis and design, stormwater management, trenchless solutions, tender preparation, and construction administration.

JLR is a creative, tight-knit, and mentorship-focused community with unique opportunities for driven people with tenacity and spirit. Our organization is made up of diverse employee-owners with specialized expertise in a wide range of disciplines. Joining the JLR team means being part of a dynamic group of innovative engineering, architecture, planning, and energy systems professionals and support staff. You will have the opportunity to help establish new clients and partner with existing ones to develop insightful solutions and see projects through from inception to completion.

If you are innovative and collaborative, a solid mentor, thrive when presented with new challenges, and are eager to take your career in new directions, then JLR is the right environment for you.

Your Role

Choose your own adventure! Let’s talk about how your skills, experience, goals, and passions can find a home at JLR. Your role will include:

• Working with an established, multi-disciplinary, integrated technical team of engineers, technologists, and support staff to develop solutions for municipal infrastructure, carry out studies, and provide services during construction
• Guiding, mentoring, and leading junior and intermediate staff through day-to-day puzzles
• Working with long-time, established clients to ensure their expectations are met, as well as forging new relationships and creating new pathways for business development
• Leading the development of competitive proposals to secure new assignments

Why Join Us?

We live, work, breathe, sleep, and thrive in the communities we build. We love Northern Ontario and the glorious bounty of the natural world, we’re proud of our reputation and longevity in the National Capital and Kingston regions, and we’re growing our presence in southwestern Ontario and all along the great lakes of Ontario. Also:

• We’re 100% employee-owned with share ownership opportunities at all levels
• Work-life balance is strongly encouraged, including flexibility with work hours and remote working
• We offer stable, long-term employment with opportunities for advancement based on merit, skill, and initiative and an “open-door” policy where communication is strongly encouraged
• We foster a friendly, welcoming, and team-oriented atmosphere that encourages innovation and collaboration – we have an established depth of technical and support resources that can efficiently and effectively deliver small site plans, complex subdivisions, and large multi-disciplinary projects
• We provide a flexible career direction with opportunities to choose your own path and interesting and exciting assignments ranging in size and type
• We provide competitive salaries, reviewed annually
• Health & dental benefits and RRSP/DPSP programs are offered immediately
• Our merit-and-profit bonus program is our key to recognizing performance
• Extracurricular social events are provided so we can all have some fun along the way (annual “prom”, golf tournaments, sports teams, department lunches, summer BBQs, and much more)