Head of Innovation

2 months ago


Ottawa, Canada J.L. Richards & Associates Limited Full time

Are you a true leader with a personal vision and a big-picture mindset?
- Do you dream up inventive ideas to put new tools like AI to good use?
- Are you a resourceful, dynamic, and driven individual** **with at least 15 years of experience in consulting engineering?
- Does reimagining processes, enhancing organizational structure and agility, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement excite you?

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, and planning professionals and support staff.

If you’re 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:

- Understanding industry and client trends to enable innovation in all aspects of the business by providing a corporate framework for the opportunity discovery process, tracking new innovative ideas, and defining the approval requirements for an initiative to be scoped.
- Empower innovation through the phases of conceptual scoping, feasibility design, and detailed design, tracking the potential ROI to the company at each stage.
- Guide teams, test concepts, and devise clever solutions to ambiguous problems, using both a deep toolkit of frameworks and ideas, and the courage, tenacity, and entrepreneurial spirit to get to the best outcomes for the firm.
- Use proven, aligned experience in IT, software, data management, and a high affinity for digital and technological topics to manage and implement software projects.
- Measure innovation performance through tangible metrics and evaluations, ensuring data collection methodologies and interfaces report honest and useful findings, using deep experience in data visualization and modelling.
- Communicate the state of innovation to stakeholders at the firm by telling stories, articulating complex ideas, inspiring teams, and influencing others.

**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.

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 flexible career direction with opportunities to choose your own path and interesting and exciting assignments ranging in size and type.

Employee Ownership and Career Growth
- 100% employee owned
- Share ownership opportunities at all levels
- Merit and profit bonus program
- Competitive salaries reviewed annually
- Career Mentorship Program

Work-life Balance and Employee Wellness
- Immediate health and dental benefits
- RRSP/DPSP matching program
- Flexible working hours
- Hybrid working
- Parental leave top-up program
- Fun Funds to plan extracurricular social events

Community Engagement and Social Responsibility
- Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Committee
- Environmental Sustainability Committee
- Reconciliation Action Plan Committee
- Local fundraising and community building events

**Application Instructions**
- At JLR, each of us contributes to inclusion and we all have a role to play. Our culture is the result of our behaviours, our personal commitment, our curiosity, how we collaborate, and the ways that we courageously share our perspectives and encourage others to do the same. In turn, our environment inspires us to try new things, speak openly, and be bold. It brings us together in ways that help us stand out. Our inclusive culture empowers all of us to connect, belong, and grow._



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