- Are you a true leader with a vision, big-picture mindset, and passion for reducing our carbon footprint?
- Does working with an experienced and diverse team to create high quality custom solutions for clients using innovative technologies and an industry leading understanding of decarbonization excite you?
- Are you a resourceful, dynamic, and driven Engineer, Architect, Technologist, Project Manager, or related professional with at least 15 years of experience in the energy and sustainability sectors, including experience in a consulting firm?
- Do you want to make a meaningful impact on sustainability while pioneering a wide array of projects for reducing our carbon footprint and positively contribute to climate action?
- Developing, managing, and expanding the client base, partnership base, and business opportunities in the Market.
- Thinking strategically about current and future opportunities, researching trends, and building short-term and long-term plans for growth.
- Providing oversight and support to our project managers delivering work in the Market.
- Coaching, mentoring, and developing the business and client liaison skills for staff working in the Market.
- Overseeing marketing strategies and materials, external event participation, and proposal and pursuit material.
- As a member of the leadership of the organization, working collaboratively with other stakeholders to achieve corporate objectives and ensure positive outcomes for the entire organization.
- We're 100% employee-owned with share ownership opportunities at all levels.
- Work-life balance is strongly encouraged, including flexibility with work hours and hybrid 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 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.
- Our employees lead committees charged with creating action plans for ensuring our firm's social responsibility, including our: Diversity, Equity & Inclusion CommitteeEnvironmental Sustainability CommitteeIndigenous Reconciliation Action Committee.
- We provide competitive salaries, which are reviewed annually.
- Health and 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).
Innovative Energy Market Chief - Ottawa, Canada - J.L. Richards & Associates Limited
Description
We've opened a role for a talented, enthusiastic person to build upon and lead JLR's current Innovative Energy Market. You will be supported by a Platinum Club member of Canada's Best Managed Companies program and a 100% employee-owned firm with a long-established reputation for quality services in a wide variety of sectors. You will provide guidance and mentorship to our teams, help bring on new clients while serving existing ones and deliver world-class solutions.
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 professionals, and support staff. You will have the opportunity to grow this exciting market by helping to establish new clients and partnering with existing ones to develop insightful solutions and see projects through from inception to completion.
If you are an innovative and collaborative leader, thrive when presented with new challenges, and are eager to take your career in new directions, then JLR is the right environment for you.
What is included in our Innovative Energy Market?
We have a mission to achieve significant energy innovation and decarbonization across a wide number of multidisciplinary projects. Our areas of work include electrical domains, such as solar, batteries, electric fleet charging, and load management, thermal energy domains. such as building energy modeling, fuel switching, heat recovery, and deep energy retrofits; and other unique opportunities in campus, wastewater, grid innovation, and complex energy systems.
We fuel employee knowledge and client design decisions by providing services ranging from advisory support, screening studies, options analysis, engineering feasibility studies, embodied carbon and life cycle cost analysis, funding support, and design services where project goals are decarbonization. In parallel, our energy engineers also support sustainability and decarbonization analysis within both small and major projects across all JLR's markets.
Your Role
Let's talk about how your skills, experience, goals, and passions can find a home at JLR. Your role will include:
Why Join Us?
We live, work, breathe, sleep, and thrive in the communities we build. We're growing our presence in both eastern and western Ontario and all along the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River corridor. We're proud of our reputation and longevity in the National Capital region, and we love Northern Ontario and the glorious bounty of the natural world. Also: