Structural Engineer – Buildings

  • Full Time
  • Kingston

J.L. Richards & Associates Limited


Pop Quiz:

Does working with an experienced team to create high quality solutions for clients using innovative technologies and alternate delivery methods excite you?

Are you a resourceful, dynamic, and driven Structural Engineer with 5+ years of experience in the design and construction of steel, concrete, masonry, and wood structures?


Do you want to continue to explore the many facets that consulting engineering has to offer, including technical development, business, and communication skills, and entrepreneurial spirit?

Finally, want to be part of a structural team that is developing leading-edge structural design processes accessing the performance-based sections of the code? Improving and quantifying the reliability of the designed structures leading our structural team being sought after by clients for their effective design results? No rust will be allowed to form on your skills, in fact we push our engineers to expand their knowledge and continue the leading-edge activities we’ve accomplished. If you scored four for four, JLR has a home for you We’ve opened roles in our Ottawa, Kingston, Sudbury, North Bay or Timmins offices for talented, entrepreneurial people to build and grow in some of JLR’s key business markets.



Did you know JLR’s structural engineers were the first in Canada to design a major PWGSC building to incorporate blast design as part of the security regime? This was over 20 years ago. We’ve continued these design activities in over 30 countries for over 15 years. Want to dust off your passport? Past travels include West Bank, Jamaica, Lebanon, Columbia, India, Guiana, and many more.

You’ll be supported by a Platinum Club member of Canada’s Best Managed Companies, a 100% employee-owned firm that has a long-established reputation for quality services in a variety of sectors, while you provide guidance and mentoring to our teams, help to bring on new clients, service existing ones and deliver world-class solutions.


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:



  1. Designing, internal coordination, project management, and contract administration during construction of industrial, institutional, and commercial projects, from concept to completion.
  2. Leading the development of competitive proposals to secure new assignments.
  3. Working with an established, multidisciplinary, integrated technical team of engineers, technologists, and support staff to carry out studies, develop design documents, and provide services during construction.

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, longterm 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.
  • 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.
  • 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).

Want to get more insight before you apply? Have an informal chat with Senior Structural Engineer. Interested in our Structural projects? Check out the expansion work we did for the (Project Name); or our design work for the structural components at the (Project Name); or the (Project Name) where we collaborated with internationally recognized scientists with expertise in protecting and restoring industrially damaged ecosystems to inform the building’s design.



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