Mechanical Engineer – Environmental Infrastructure

Pop quiz:

• Are you a true leader with a personal vision and a big-picture mindset?
• Does working with an experienced team to create high-quality custom solutions for clients using innovative technologies and alternate delivery methods excite you?
• Are you a resourceful, dynamic, and driven Mechanical Engineer with over five years of experience in the water and/or wastewater sector?
• Do you have an interest and experience in the dynamic world of water and wastewater ensuring helping to ensure a healthy and sustainable environment for years to come?

If you scored four for four, JLR has a home for you! We’ve opened roles in our Ottawa and Kingston offices for talented, entrepreneurial people to build and grow JLR’s Environmental Infrastructure Market. You’ll be supported by a Platinum Club member of Canada’s Best Managed Companies program, a 100% employee-owned firm that has a long-established reputation for quality services in a variety of sectors, while you deliver outstanding solutions and support to our clients.

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 joining a dynamic group of  innovative engineering, architecture, and planning professionals and support staff. You’ll 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’re innovative and collaborative, 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:

• Operating as a Discipline Lead you’re recognized as a senior technical leader responsible for the oversight of technical personnel within the Mechanical Discipline on a project. Projects typically include a host of facilities ranging from water and wastewater treatment plants, pumping stations, biogas systems, solid digestion systems to name a few.
• Designing, internal coordination, project management, and contract administration during construction of projects, from concept through to completion.
• Providing mechanical expertise for engineering studies and condition assessments.
• Working with a multidisciplinary team you’ll work directly with engineers, architects, technologists, and specialist subconsultants across all of JLR’s offices and within industry.
• Liaising with clients, identifying, and responding to their needs.
• Interacting with regulatory bodies to understand their requirements and integrate compliancy into the project design.
• Leading or assisting in proposal preparation including scope definition, estimating level of effort, etc.
• Performing site visits during job showings, during concept and detailed design and to support construction activities.
• Applying engineering fundamentals, including the application and verification of related software tools.
• Mentoring designers and junior engineers.

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 and we’re proud of our reputation and longevity in the National Capital and Kingston regions (and this year, we’re celebrating 50 years in Sudbury!). Furthermore, we’re growing our presence in southwestern Ontario and all along the great lakes of Ontario.

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 and large multidisciplinary projects. We provide flexible career direction with opportunities to choose your own path and interesting and exciting assignments ranging in size and type.

Employee Ownership and Career Growth

• 100% employee owned
• Share ownership opportunities at all levels
• Merit and profit bonus program
• Competitive salaries reviewed annually
• Career Mentorship Program

Work-life Balance and Employee Wellness

• Immediate health and dental benefits
• RRSP/DPSP matching program
• Flexible working hours
• Hybrid working
• Parental leave top-up program
• Fun Funds to plan extracurricular social events

Community Engagement and Social Responsibility

• Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Committee
• Environmental Sustainability Committee
• Reconciliation Action Plan Committee
• Local fundraising and community building events

Application Instructions:

Interested in joining our team? We’re always open to great talent, even if it’s not exactly what we’ve posted. Ready? Send us a cover letter and resume outlining your skills, qualifications, and the specific experiences that make you an ideal candidate for the position by emailing careers@jlrichards.ca.

JLR welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.

At JLR, each of us contributes to inclusion and we all have a role to play. Our culture is the result of our behaviours, our personal commitment, our curiosity, how we collaborate, and the ways that we courageously share our perspectives and encourage others to do the same. In turn, our environment inspires us to try new things, speak openly, and be bold. It brings us together in ways that help us stand out. Our inclusive culture empowers all of us to connect, belong, and grow.