Mechanical Engineer – Environmental Infrastructure

at  JL Richards Associates Limited

• 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.

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.