Land Development Leader

Pop Quiz :

• Are you passionate about building sustainable infrastructure to meet the population’s essential servicing needs in new communities in an environmentally responsible way?
• Does leading and mentoring staff to create high-quality custom solutions for clients using innovative technologies excite you?
• Are you a resourceful, clever, and enthusiastic Civil Engineer with at least 10 years of related experience in municipal engineering, ideally in land development and community building?
• Have you ever considered moving into a leadership role, 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 or Guelph office for a talented, entrepreneurial candidate to lead, mentor, and work alongside the 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 municipal and land development sectors, while nurturing the needs of our existing clients, develop new relationships and deliver world-class, sustainable solutions that support community building and growth in our city or elsewhere in Ontario. Our work spans the gamut from concept development to final commissioning of constructed works and includes urban planning, master servicing studies, transportation, municipal servicing, stormwater management, water distribution system analysis and design, construction administration, and we’re even developing ideas for future renewables in our subdivision designs.

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 being part of a dynamic group of innovative engineering, architecture, and planning 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, a solid mentor, 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 :

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 :

Interested in our land development projects?  Check how JLR developed an innovative storm servicing solution for a large community in the Barrhaven South Urban Area where the traditional storm sewer system was supplemented by an exfiltration system along the ROW to preserve infiltration levels to an esker. Also see how our land Development group designed a wet pond that offered several challenges; coordination with DFO for the approval of in-water works, gravity outlet to the future Light-Rail-Transit and incorporated a new sanitary sewer overflow that integrated several elements as a means of protection; sluice gate, backwater valve, and sophisticated level measurements and alarms.