Senior Architect

We’ve opened a role in our Kingston, North Bay or Timmins for talented, entrepreneurial candidates to work alongside exceptional people in JLR’s Architectural 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

Let’s talk about how your skills, experience, goals, and passions can find a home at JLR. Your role will include :

• Leading projects and design teams.
• Working alongside the Chief Architect and JLR leadership group to drive projects forward.
• Collaborating with team members as part of an integrated project team, including execution, design, and reporting.
• Engaging through all project stages, from the definition, through planning, design, and construction, using your demonstrated abilities to recognize opportunities, understand client needs and manage and deliver projects.
• Architectural design and contract administration related to a variety of commercial, institutional, and industrial construction projects.
• Liaising with clients, engagement and leadership business and client development activities.
• Participating in the preparation of proposals, reports, specifications, contract documents and budget estimates.
• As required, travelling between JLR offices across Ontario and Canada to meet the needs of various projects and / or training purposes.

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 (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 Architectural projects? Check out the award-winning or the new Field Crop Services Building we designed for the .