Chief Planner

Are you a true leader with a personal vision and a big-picture mindset?
- Does working with an experienced team to create high-quality custom solutions for municipal clients excite you?
- Are you a resourceful, dynamic, and driven* Professional Planner *with at least 15 years of industry experience?
- Have you ever considered leading your own team, but 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 offices for a talented, enthusiastic person to build upon and lead JLR’s Planning discipline. You’ll be supported by a Platinum Club member of Canada’s Best Managed Companies program, 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.
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. 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, 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:
**Leadership and Management Aspects**:

- Leading the development and expansion of the technical knowledge of staff company wide in the Planning discipline to meet technical, marketing, and project delivery needs.
- Ensuring back up and succession for the duties and expertise represented in the Planning discipline across all markets.
- Leading the implementation of strategies to allow for consistent delivery across projects and markets.
- Coaching senior and intermediate employees, including both formal and informal training and mentoring.
- Working with the Managers and Market Chiefs to achieve corporate objectives, and as a member of the leadership of the organization, working collaboratively with other stakeholders to ensure positive outcomes for the entire organization.

**Technical Aspects**:

- As the foremost Planner in the discipline, engaging through all project stages, using your demonstrated abilities to recognize opportunities, understand client needs and manage and deliver projects.
- Ensuring that appropriate QA/QC procedures are followed.
- Ensuring fluid communication between the various internal and external stakeholders involved in each project.
- Participating in technical defenses against legal action.
- Coordinating with other leaders in engineering, architecture, and planning on multidisciplinary projects.

**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:

- 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, long-term 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 multidisciplinary 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 (annual “prom”, golf tournaments, sports teams, department lunches, summer BBQs, and much more).

**Application Instructions**
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