Municipal Engineer - Kingston, Canada - J.L. Richards & Associates Limited

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    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 four for four, JLR has a home for you We've opened a role in our Ottawa, Kingston and Guelph offices for talented, entrepreneurial candidates to work alongside exceptional people in JLR's Civil Engineering group. You'll be supported by a Platinum Club member of Canada's Best Managed Companies program, 100% employee-owned firm that has a long-established reputation for quality services in multiple sectors, while you take on existing clients, develop new relationships and deliver world-class, innovative solutions that support community building and growth in our cities.

    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, 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, 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, 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. You should also know:

  • 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, 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 ("prom," golf tournaments, sports teams, department lunches, summer BBQs, and much more).
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    Interested in our municipal projects? Check out our solution to reduce combined sewer overflows to the Ottawa River at or how we completed the detailed design and tender document preparation for an integrated road, sewer, and water main reconstruction initiative for a major collector on or how we managed one of the most extensive local improvement projects ever conducted in Ontario for extending central water and sewer services to the lovely village of .