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
Darielle Corsaro, CPA, CGA, MBA
I joined Williams in April 2021 while Alberta was still in the midst of Covid. I was inspired by our CEO Naseem Bashir’s thoughts on women in leadership roles – it was refreshing. Here was someone I wanted to work for and my intuition was not wrong. My current role is Vice President of Finance and Shared Services and I oversee Finance, Human Resources, IT, Project Controls, Project Management, and Change Management.
I grew up in small town Alberta and all I ever wanted was to go to university and move to the “big city”. I am a learner, someone who is eternally curious and that led me to do 15 years of post-secondary education to obtain my undergrad, CPA designation, and MBA. A long time to be in school for sure, but I worked full time for the duration and thus school was done at a part time pace.
I have always loved numbers. They tell a story and until 2016 I had only held accounting roles. It was when I started my MBA that I started to look at business at a much higher, more holistic level-more than just the numbers. Every piece of the business is important; from Sales, to HR, to Project Execution, to Warehousing, to Engineering…..if one piece falls down it’s like a house of cards – the whole thing can fall over.
The areas of the business that I oversee are very internally focused. As a leader, I am constantly working with other leaders to see what we can do to Brighten the lives of our teammates. Whether it be to provide additional benefits, take a 12 step process and reduce it to 6, a surprise holiday gift box, more transparency from leadership, preparing monthly financial statements in record time, making sure we have appropriate communication and training for changes that are being made, the list goes on and on.
I spoke at a junior high career day last year and I asked the kids if they had an adult in their life who they have heard say that they hate their job, whether that be a parent, an older sibling, an aunt, uncle, etc. Every single kid raised their hand. I’m the outlier….I wake up everyday and I love my job and am excited to get to work. It is challenging and at times can be all consuming but I am grateful for the autonomy I have been given by our CEO, for Jason, my Co-VP who is endlessly supportive, for my five hard-core direct reports who work together and can move mountains if they are asked, and for the rest of our teammates who work tirelessly to deliver day in and day out.
I am part of a team that is fundamentally rooted in change. Business is never static, there is never a checklist that you finish and now everything is “working perfectly.” To be successful we always need to be asking questions, being in the now but also looking down the road. I couldn’t be more excited to be part of this team and to be here for all of our shared success.
Chris Gulayec
Chris Gulayec is a Mechanical Field Representative in Abbotsford B.C. He is a Red Seal HVAC/ Refrigeration technician with over 15 years of experience working in the construction industry on a wide variety of commercial and residential projects throughout B.C and Alberta.
Since joining the Williams team in the summer of 2022, he has continued to expand his career and gain even more knowledge in the construction industry. He enjoys using his previous knowledge in construction to resolve any issues that may arise onsite while ensuring the quality of the final completed project.
Chris appreciates that Williams Engineering truly is a team, everyone collaborates and owns the outcome of all projects big/small. Not only does Williams care about delivering the best possible project to the client but also to the future people that will be working/living or just enjoying the final completed build.
