Senior Civil Engineering Technologist

Overview

Are you someone with strong leadership and technical capabilities?  Do you enjoy building relationships and working collaboratively in a team environment with both internal and external stakeholders? Are you a thought leader, a trusted advisor and a problem solver? If you enjoy entrepreneurship and innovation, this opportunity is for you! As someone with excellent communication skills and business acumen, you will thrive in our collaborative and agile environment.

Your opportunity

Dillon’s Linear Municipal Infrastructure discipline is looking for a Senior Civil Engineering Technologist to join our multidisciplinary team of professionals. You will have the opportunity to work on new and exciting projects, with a focus on continuous development of technical skills, as well as providing opportunities to develop project management skills.

At Dillon, we operate as one team. This position is available at our Dillon London office.  We offer flexible work hours and hybrid work arrangement options to help balance the competing demands of work and personal life.

Our office works on a wide range of projects generally within an hour radius of London, which includes the design of infrastructure renewal including large diameter watermain replacements, involvement in the City of London Bus Rapid Transit projects, the design of small and large scale street reconstruction projects, and various greenfield projects involving land development.

Responsibilities

Technical Leadership & Design:

• Lead the preliminary and detailed design of transportation and municipal infrastructure using AutoCAD Civil 3D, collaborating within a multidisciplinary team.
• Oversee and develop engineering drawings for private and municipal stakeholders, including storm/sanitary/water servicing plans, grading designs, road profiles, and cross-section details.
• Prepare and review technical reports and calculations, including storm and sanitary sewer design tables, functional servicing reports, and volume calculations.

Project Coordination:

• Drive project delivery by preparing specifications and documentation for construction tender packages, including quantity take-offs and traffic control plans.
• Coordinate directly with sub-consultants and actively participate in project team meetings.

Learning and Development:

• Provide technical direction, training, coaching, and mentoring to junior staff.

• Contribute to business development activities, including client need research and the preparation of project proposals and presentations.

• Commit to self-development and active participation in professional associations and committees.

Qualifications

• A diploma in Civil Engineering Technology

• 10+ years’ work experience, with prior consulting engineering and/or municipal experience required

Experience

• Extensive knowledge of the functional and detailed design of roads, sewers, water mains, and drainage works, including relevant municipal/provincial engineering standards.
• Highly proficient in the use of current AutoCAD and Civil 3D software. Experience using Bluebeam Revu is considered an asset.
• Registered as a Civil Engineering Technologist (CET) in the province of Ontario is strongly preferred.
• Strong verbal and written communication, organization, and interpersonal skills with the ability to multitask on various projects.

Why choose Dillon

Dillon is powered by people who are technically proficient, passionate about socially important projects, and motivated to deliver superior, tangible results. We strive to remain at the forefront of technology and innovation, and are empowered to continually grow and develop.

We live our core values:

• Reliability: words result in actions that build trust;
• Achievement: do the work to hit the target;
• Continuous development: always learning; always adapting; always growing;
• Creativity: discover new possibilities;
• Courage: do the things that matter, especially when it’s hard;
• Inclusiveness: enabling belonging to draw strength from our differences.

In addition, we offer:

• Employee share purchase plan

• Dillon is 100% employee owned and share ownership is open to all employees.

• A competitive compensation package

• Comprehensive health benefits

• Generous retirement savings plan

• Student loan repayment assistance with matching employer contributions

• Flexible work hours and hybrid working options

• Dillon values its staff and the contributions that are made each day and understands that work arrangements can differ based on personal needs and business needs.  We are taking a trust-based approach to offer a variety of flexible and hybrid work options to help balance the competing demands of work and personal life.

• Learning and Development opportunities

• As a knowledge-based business, the organic growth of our knowledge and skills occur through our work performance and roles. The creation and sharing of knowledge allows us to take local knowledge to scale, capture lessons learned through experience, and continuously improve service delivery. The development of self and others is an evident and measured core behaviour within our organization

• We use a composite approach to development including coaching to build the how, mentoring to share lessons, advising to round out perspectives, and co-creation of knowledge through internal learning opportunities.

• Focus on Innovation

• The ability to anticipate, examine, and adopt new and innovative solutions is a crucial driver for the continual and progressive advancement of our business performance. In our culture, people are empowered to reflect and question current practices and seek forward looking solutions to today’s problems and tomorrow’s opportunities.

• Employee and Family Assistance program

• A variety of EFAP tools and online resources to support well-being are available to all employees.

• Goodlife Fitness Corporate Membership

• • • Our employees can take advantage of reduced annual membership fees.

• Wellness Subsidy

  • • Our employees can take advantage of a wellness subsidy that can be put towards expenses for a variety of health and/or wellness related activities such as gym membership, purchase of home fitness equipment, yoga classes  and dance classes.

About Dillon

Dillon is a proudly Canadian, employee-owned, professional consulting firm specializing in planning, engineering, environmental science, and management. We partner with clients to provide committed, collaborative, and inventive solutions to complex, multi-faceted projects. With over 20 offices and more than 1000 employees across Canada, Dillon offers a wide range of services related to building and improving facilities and infrastructure, protecting the environment, and developing communities.

Now operating for over 75 years, we continue to strive for excellence in everything we do. Dillon has been listed as one of Canada’s Best Managed Companies for the past 18 years and has the distinction of having achieved Platinum Club member status in this program.

Health & Safety at Dillon

Prospective employees are expected to fully align with Dillon's core commitment to Health & Safety. This includes active, ongoing engagement with our Health & Safety processes and platform, and the active, ongoing identification and reporting of health and safety hazards.

Employment Equity, Diversity & Inclusion at Dillon

Dillon is committed to the principles of employment equity, inclusiveness, and diversity within our organization. We strive to achieve a workplace where opportunities are based on skills and abilities and that respects and values differences.

Inclusion is more than a word to us, it is the way we choose to run our business. We encourage you to contact us if you require accommodation during the interview process. We would love to hear from you!