Water Resources (Stormwater) Professional

Pop Quiz :

• Are you passionate about supporting urban development projects by contributing to unique and sustainable stormwater management solutions?
• Are you interested in developing long-term stormwater strategies for growing communities that are resilient to climate change?
• Does working with an experienced, collaborative team to create innovative solutions for clients using state-of-the-art modelling platforms excite you?
• Are you a resourceful, clever, and enthusiastic Water Resources Professional (Engineer, Project Manager, or Technologist) with at least 5 years of experience?

If you scored four for four , JLR has a home for you! We’ve opened a role in our Ottawa office for talented, entrepreneurial candidates to work alongside exceptional people in JLR’s Land Development 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 the Water and Stormwater sectors, while you take on existing and new clients and deliver world-class solutions that protect our land, surface watercourses and groundwater resources.

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 be part of a collaborative project team, to help establish new clients and partner with existing ones and 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. We’re looking for people who enjoy :

• Working with an established, collaborative team of engineers, technologists, GIS Technicians and support staff to develop innovative stormwater and servicing solutions to support urban land development projects.
• Using state-of-the-art stormwater management modelling software (PCSWMM, XPSWMM, HEC-RAS, HY8, etc.) to advance innovative, integrated solutions to complex servicing problems from the master planning stage to detailed design and construction.
• Developing stormwater and / or wastewater models to support master planning of linear infrastructure to support growth in existing or new communities.
• Investigating flooding risks along storm and sanitary sewer systems as well as identifying floodplain areas.
• Delivering thoughtful design solutions, developing new business, and working with clients to ensure their expectations are met.

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, we’re proud of our reputation and longevity in the National Capital and Kingston regions, and 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 (and you’ll benefit from remote working stipends to help offset the cost of setting up a productive home-work environment).
• 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 multidisciplinary 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 : Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Committee;

Environmental Sustainability Committee; and Indigenous Action Plan Committee.

• We provide competitive salaries, 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.
• We’re active in our communities, regularly participating in fundraising efforts and giving back to the places we call home.

We’ve even been recognized by Chambers of Commerce, like in Guelph (winner of the 2023 Customer Service Award), Timmins (winner of the 2024 Best Place to Work Award), and Sudbury (finalist for the 2024 Best Place to Work Award).

Extracurricular social events are provided so we can all have some fun along the way (biennial Prom , golf tournaments, sports teams, department lunches, summer BBQs, and much more).

Interested in our modelling assignments that supports our land development projects? Check out how JLR developed innovative modelling by developing a water budget analysis carried out using PCSWMM where a long-term simulation of hourly precipitation and temperature was used to assess the hydrological cycle.

The analysis identified the design capture of a Low Impact Development (LID) measure to preserve groundwater recharge to the esker.

Also see the PCSWMM analysis that was carried out along the sanitary system in a large community in the Kanata West area.

This sanitary sewer analysis was required given that a sanitary overflow was incorporated into one of the wet ponds to confirm that basement protection during a catastrophic failure of the downstream Pumping Station could be provided.