Culture
Help us brighten lives!
Our passionate team of professionals embodies Williams Engineering’s values, while pursuing safe, inclusive, resilient and sustainable cities.
What Drives Us
After decades of operation, we did a deep dive into our core purpose:
How do we change lives with what we do?
Why are we different?
What is our impact?
Through this journey, we realized that our team members’ collective energy, care and attention isn’t solely focused on designing a building. Instead, our focus is on every person who walks into a library, condominium, school or hospital and how these structures impact their lives both today and in the future. For us, this work is about who uses these spaces and how, creating buildings that serve our communities, not the other way around! We provide the people we serve with inclusive spaces designed to foster positivity.
Our experts focus on staying up to date with the latest technology and trends in each of our disciplines. Delivering inspired solutions and exceptional results occurs by taking responsibility for the success of our client’s projects and creating communication that supports that success. Our greatest resource is our people, and we believe investing in our team members’ growth, development, and technical training ensures our mutual success.
Why Join Us
We are a passionate group of changemakers. We thrive on challenging work which inspires us to do our best each and every day. Our culture supports that through training and development, office social events, reward and recognition programs, open communication, and a strong belief in bringing joy to our work! Each of us is celebrated on our birthdays and when we reach service milestones with a special gift. Our teams have a mix of long-tenured, highly skilled team members along with new and learning employees. Many of our teammates have moved through the organization and upskilled into management or specialized roles. We believe in promoting and developing our talent from within!
What We Offer
We believe that a diverse team leads to diverse thoughts and better work. We recognize that our team does much more than engineer solutions and solve our client’s challenges; they can impact the communities where they live and work while developing and growing relationships with community leaders. To positively impact our communities, we must start by positively impacting our own team. As a result, it means providing fair compensation, training, advancement opportunities and an open and honest team environment. For every team member to thrive, Williams Engineering believes maintaining a healthy work-life balance is essential. We offer a flexible work environment to support our team members’ full, unique lives.
Our commitment to you
- Challenging, interesting work
- Remote work & flexible environment
- Competitive salary & vacation package
- Diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives
- RRSP matching program
- Subsidized health & dental plan
- A wellness benefit which can be used towards the expense of a gym pass, bus/train pass, sustainability initiatives, contribute it towards your RRSP or to a charity of your choice.
- Paid sick time
- Training & development reimbursement
- Mentorship & job shadowing opportunities
- Cell phone subsidy
Our Purpose
WE Brighten Lives.
Our Culture
We know that what we do reaches beyond a single project, and our team’s core purpose is to engineer safe, inclusive, and resilient cities. As a team member, you can be a part of the impact we create. We are looking for teammates who want to impact their communities through their work and are inspired by taking on work that helps them and others live out their own purpose each day.
Co-worker Relationships
We have built a unified and friendly environment. We value every team member’s input and expect trust and mutual respect.
Flexibility & Remote Work
Encourage Diverse Perspectives, Create Diverse Solutions
We are true to our core values. We promote diverse perspectives and encourage each other to learn from our differences. Diverse ideas and approaches are an opportunity for growth and improvement.
Teammate Career Path Stories
Kendal Locher
I have 6 years of experience in the accounting field, graduating with a BSc in Mathematics with a Specialization in Finance in 2020 from the University of Alberta.
I started with Williams on a temporary basis in November 2023, helping the accounting and HR teams create work instructions before I was lucky enough to be offered the Accounts Payable role a few months later. Since then, I have been able to put my skills to use in the Finance department, which led into my new role as a Billing Clerk, as of September 2025. This has taken a lot of training to pick up but I’m glad I made the switch! I was also recently a part of the Vantagepoint Upgrade Team, working to test the new system along with everyone else involved in the upgrade.
It has been so rewarding to join the Williams Engineering team, not only because of the excellent group of people working here but also because of the opportunities for growth within the company. I have learned so much during my two years here, and I’m excited to see what the future holds here at Williams!
Fun fact, the photo I’ve attached is from my trip to Japan this spring!
Robert Abbenhuis, LEED® AP.
I was born and grew up in Edmonton, I watched my father at a young age when he was working in the engineering field, and I thought I would like to do that as well.
I joined Williams Engineering in the Vancouver Office in July 2020, right in the middle of Covid. I was hired to do field review and designer. I started my career way back in 1975 in Calgary. I worked there util 1986 and then got transferred to Edmonton. I stayed in Edmonton until the summer of 1991 when I got transferred to Vancouver.
I have enjoyed the past 5 years working here at Williams, the team are great to work with. I have enjoyed working with some of the younger members and I hope my experience passing on to them has been helpful.
I have had a lot of great projects to work on in my career where I was the main designer and did all the field review; some are the Western Canadian Place in Calgary that was a twin office tower. Vancouver General Hospital Tower, The BC Cancer Project that was a 6 story building with an interstice space, The Vancouver International Airport and Winnipeg International Airport and the Vancouver Convention Centre that was a million square feet. We used seawater as a source to heating and cooling the building.
I also got to be the designer and project manager for a new hospital in Doha, Qutar. This was a new cancer treatment and research hospital. Spent about 1 ½ years on this project. I did a lot of flying back and forth there.
The one project that I felt was the best and fun experience was the new Bahamas International Airport in Nassa on New Providence Island. I spent about 1 year designing the airport. I was then sent to the Bahamas for to live there for four and half years to provide the field review and construction admin for the project. I also provide review of the structural and electrical work; I would take photos and send them back to the team in Vancouver. The project was done in three phases. We had a great team there. We worked hard and on weekends played hard. I gave talks to students at the technical school in the Bahamas.
Even after 50 years in this field I still enjoy coming to work, working on designing systems and working with my teammates. Even after 50 years I am still learning.
Careers Available
Students & New Grads
Our co-op program welcomes students every year in each of our engineering disciplines (Electrical, Sustainability, Mechanical, Building Science, Structural). Apply under the co-op job posting to be considered.
