Pop quiz:
- Are you looking to learn from a range of top structural experts in the construction industry?
- Are you a Structural Engineering Student with at least one year of experience, currently studying in an accredited engineering program, and seeking a 16-month co-op term starting in May 2025?
- Would you enjoy working on a variety of projects servicing a broad client base?
- Do you want to be a part of a multidisciplinary team that is delivering a range of projects from the elegantly simple to the intensely complex?
If you scored four for four, JLR has a home for you! We’ve opened a role in one of our offices for a talented, entrepreneurial candidate to work alongside exceptional people in JLR’s Structural group. 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.
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, and planning professionals and support staff. You’ll have the opportunity to work with multidisciplinary teams at JLR to develop insightful solutions.
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:
- Working with senior engineers and designers in the design of a wide variety of buildings and other structural systems.
- Working and collaborating with an established, multidisciplinary, integrated technical team of architects, planners, engineers, and technologists to ensure that project deadlines are met and final deliverables align with client expectations.
- Assisting in analyzing and designing new building structures utilizing industry leading software (CSI suite, Altair).
- Assisting in developing designs to modify existing structures and designing additions and/or repairs.
- Accompanying staff during visits to construction sites and reporting on observations.
- Assisting with carrying out studies, preparing reports, developing design documents, and providing services during construction.
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. 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 Wellness and Onboarding
- New hire buddy program
- 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? This posting is for a current vacancy, but 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.
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