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
Binghang Li, M.Eng, P.Eng, CPHC
Binghang is a passionate advocate for reducing energy consumption and graduated from the University of British Columbia with a Master’s degree in Clean Energy Engineering and professional registration with EGBC and APEGA.
In his role as our Team Lead of Building Performance, Binghang symbolizes the true essence of teamwork, taking a strong interest in mentoring team members, stimulating their skill sets, and nurturing a culture that promotes learning and growth. Moreover, his guidance serves as a compass for clients and design teams, steering them towards the realization of high-performance building design goals.
Motivated by a passion to refine and enhance processes, Binghang consistently showcases commitment and dedication. In his free time, Binghang embraces moments of tranquility, dedicating them to reading and cherishing time with family and friends.
Looking ahead, Binghang envisions a future filled with exciting challenges and breakthroughs in energy modelling. His evolving understanding of his field is reflected in his trail of numerous successful projects, a journey he holds dear to his heart. Join him and his team as they continue to innovate, learn, and drive success in the field of sustainable energy.
Jessica Heine, PMP
I’ve been working at Williams Engineering since 2011, having started my career here as a Project Assistant/Receptionist in the Yellowknife office. Working in Yellowknife was a great place for me to begin my journey into the world of consulting engineering; the team felt immediately like family and set a high standard for me of what work can and should be like. Additionally, working on projects in a northern climate opened my eyes to the high level of collaboration and coordination that is required to engineer new and existing systems.
In 2013, I transferred down to the Edmonton office where I have worked ever since. A few years later, I was promoted to the position of Project Coordinator, and in January of 2017 I became a Project Manager, initially managing Building Science projects and then larger multidiscipline projects, particularly with the mechanical and electrical teams. This advancement from Project Assistant to Project Manager, in my opinion, is due in no small part to the excellent mentorship that I received from multiple team members throughout the years coupled with the company’s willingness to explore what I could accomplish if given the opportunity.
In December of 2023, I achieved PMP Certification which was very validating for me. As a non-technical PM, I have at times suffered from imposter syndrome. Knowing the hard work that went into attaining this designation, and being able to add those three letters to my signature block have made a big difference for me.
I love that I work at a company that was open-minded to what I can bring to the table with a Bachelor of Music degree, a passion for organization, a joy in communicating no matter what, and an unending desire to find efficiency in the work that I do. I look forward to continuing this journey at Williams Engineering in the years to come.
