Manager of Legal Services

We’ve opened a role in our Ottawa office for a talented, entrepreneurial Manager of Legal Services to work alongside exceptional people in JLR’s Legal & Corporate Affairs group.

Pop Quiz:

• Are you a true leader with a personal vision and a big-picture mindset?
• Do you have a passion for people management and a strong background in contract review and public/private procurement processes?
• Are you a conscientious person with strong detail orientation who’s happiest with deadline-driven work?
• Do you have a bachelor’s degree in law, business, or engineering—or equivalent related experience applicable to a consulting environment?

If you scored four for four, JLR has a home for you as the Manager of Legal Services! You’ll be supported by a Platinum Club member of Canada’s Best Managed Companies program, 100% employee-owned firm that has a long-established reputation for quality services in multiple sectors, while you take on existing clients, develop new relationships, and deliver world-class, innovative solutions that support community building and growth in our cities.

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 architecture, engineering, and planning professionals and support staff. You’ll 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’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 as Manager of Legal Services:

Choose your own adventure! Let’s talk about how your skills, experience, goals, and passions can find a home at JLR. As the Manager of Legal Services, your role will include:

• Leading and mentoring a team of paralegals.
• Overseeing the review, identification, analysis, and mitigation of commercial risks and liabilities in bid documents, client agreements, active projects, and supplier agreements.
• Overseeing the drafting of a range of contract documents with clients, suppliers and subconsultants.
• Communicating, both verbally and written, negotiated commercial terms with clients, suppliers and subconsultants.
• Assisting project teams with interpreting contract and statutory language.
• Managing contract changes and assisting with the resolution of claims.
• Collaborating with project managers, engineers, architects, planners, and technical teams to ensure alignment of risk strategies in pursuit of project opportunities.
• Understanding standard form construction agreements, professional service agreements and the ability to recognize risk and negotiate liability caps, indemnity clauses, standard of care obligations, intellectual property rights, insurance requirements, and other commercial terms and conditions.
• Embrace AI-powered contract review tools or show the flexibility to learn and adapt quickly.

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. 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:Interested in joining our team? Email your resume and CV to careers@jlrichards.ca**. This posting is for a current vacancy, but we’re always open to great talent, even if it’s not exactly what we’ve posted.** Check out our open positions or send us a cover letter and resume outlining your skills, qualifications, and the specific experiences that make you an ideal candidate for the position by emailing careers@jlrichards.ca.

JLR welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.

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. Learn more about our commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion_._