Engineer Diagnostics and Planning Division

January 26, 2024

At The Jacques Cartier and Champlain Bridges Incorporated (JCCBI), our teams work together to keep users safe by managing, maintaining and rehabilitating our infrastructure.

Why join our team? When you come work for JCCBI, you will further your career at a strong organization whose key values are teamwork, transparency, thoroughness, innovation and commitment. Recognized for their expertise, leadership and innovation, our experienced staff members hone their skills in a stimulating environment that promotes professional development in a high-quality workplace.

For over 40 years, JCCBI has gained unique expertise in the life cycle management of large-scale infrastructure used by millions of people. Join our passionate team and help make our projects a success

Here are the many benefits to working at JCCBI

• This position is unionized and permanent with a flexible schedule of 37.5 hours per week (hybrid work schedule).
• The salary range for 2024 is $ 81 782,03 to $ 127 092,52 depending on your experience.
• Participation in the federal public service pension plan.
• Annual entitlement to 15 vacation days, 15 paid sick days, 5 paid personal days and 13 paid holidays.
• An employee assistance program (EAP).
• Reimbursement for memberships to sports activities and memberships to professional orders.
• Training and skills development program.
• Our offices are located near the Longueuil metro station and are easily accessible by public transit. Parking is available, or you can take advantage of our public transit reimbursement program.

Reporting to the Manager, Diagnostics and Planning, you will implement practices that define the asset management system by applying the inspection, structural capacity analysis, diagnostic, and master plan program and by planning projects from the program to invest in physical and functional asset maintenance. You will document the scope of upcoming investments by preparing project briefs, cost estimates, and the ten-year project plan. By cooperating and working in complementarity with other teams, you will set up decision tracking in the areas of asset management, identify needs and issues, and ensure that quality information is shared. You will help with the execution of professional service contracts and ensure that the owner is involved by upholding a relationship of collaboration and trust with consultants to ensure the quality and compliance of deliverables. You will also actively participate in budget management, cost control, and deadline tracking as well as the analysis and processing of claims and amendments.

Main responsibilities

Inspections, diagnostics, and master plans for an asset sector (50 %)

• Maintain good knowledge of studied locations by making field visits, performing asset inventories, and consulting available documentation.
• Establish the annual and ten-year program for deliverables to comply with the Corporation’s internal obligations and in coordination with the planning for major work and the program budget.
• Manage and execute contracts in collaboration with internal stakeholders and the Senior Coordinator, Lead Civil Structural Engineer (CSE).
• Define the professional services, deliverables, and standards to be applied and prepare the reference terms for professional service contracts.
• Manage recommendations with internal departments.
• Ensure the quality of deliverables, analyze reports and recommend action.
• Facilitate corporate decision-making while balancing service performance with costs and risks.
• Control and monitor the completion of deliverables, which includes maintaining the required traffic flow in the network while managing budgets and tracking schedules.
• Prepare authorizations for additional work and track work progress reports for payments to consultants.
• Help update the quarterly asset management summary report for the structure in question.

Prepare the ten-year plan for an asset sector (50 %)

• Maintain good knowledge of specific locations by making field visits and consulting available documentation.
• Group project investment needs according to the nature, location and timing of required work.
• Develop and maintain asset risk management analyses.
• Develop, prepare and update briefs, including cost estimates, for upcoming projects.
• Prepare and lead project-based planning workshops that include the Corporation’s various teams.
• Work with members of the Asset Management (AM) technical committee and provide leadership together with the Senior Coordinator, Lead Civil Structural Engineer (CSE), to ensure that the Corporation’s various stakeholders are all aligned toward a common vision and organizational strategy for the asset management of the structure in question.
• Prepare and maintain projects as part of the general ten-year planning schedules.
• Monitor the progress of current projects and coordinate future projects.
• Oversee the communications and planning coordination for projects with the Corporation’s partners and stakeholders.
• Launch prefeasibility studies in collaboration with the Project teams.

Experience and education

• Have a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering with a minimum of five years of experience working on engineering structures.
•  Be a professional engineer or a candidate to the engineering profession (CEP) with the Ordre des ingénieurs du Québec (OIQ). Note that a CEP must become a full engineer within two years after being hired for this position;
• Have taken the MTMDET’s training courses on its inspection, assessment, maintenance, and design manuals for bridges and engineering structures.
• Have working knowledge of the following software: MS Project, Excel, Access, Word, Outlook.
• Show a good understanding of issues related to engineering projects, construction work, and traffic coordination.
• Have good knowledge of infrastructure sustainability and life-cycle management.
• Be familiar with construction safety standards and inspection practices.
• Mastery of written and oral French and good knowledge of oral and written English.

Assets

• Familiarity with standards for the inspection, evaluation, design, and construction of bridges and civil engineering and road structures.
• Additional training in asset management.
• Ability to establish/see a global perspective.
• Very good communicator both orally and in writing; be able to express yourself tactfully in a clear, concise and effective manner with staff at multiple seniority levels.
• Be a team player who is recognized for your ability to develop positive interpersonal relationships.
• Ability to exercise good judgment when making decisions.
• Have good organizational skills and time and priority management.
• Be resourceful and curious and show a desire to find information.

Specific work conditions

• Be able to visit structures using fixed or moving structures (i.e., the candidate must not have a fear of heights or confined spaces).

Are you the person we are looking for? This is your chance to apply. Send your resume and cover letter to:

To find out more, visit the PJCCI Careers page.

JCCBI is an equal opportunity employer. We encourage applications from First Nations people, women, members of visible minorities, and people with disabilities. Our offices are designed to facilitate access for people with disabilities or functional limitations.