Burnside Group of Companies is hiring a Junior Field Representative / Assistant Contract Administrator to join our Orangeville team. This is a strong opportunity for a recent graduate in Civil, Environmental, or Construction Technology who wants hands-on experience, mentorship, and exposure to meaningful municipal infrastructure projects.
You will work with senior technical staff on municipal and Indigenous community infrastructure projects across Ontario and Canada. The role is primarily site-based, with Orangeville as the preferred home office, and offers real opportunities to build your field, contract administration, and project coordination skills. The position also requires regular travel to remote communities, so a willingness to spend time away from home is important.
What You Will Do
In this role, you will help support construction and infrastructure projects from the field through contract administration.
What You’ll Bring
We’re looking for someone who brings:
Nice to Have
Hourly Rate: $27.00 - $32.00/hr
The final compensation offered will be based on factors such as relevant experience, skills, internal equity, and market conditions.
Position Type: New Position
Why Choose Burnside Group of Companies?
As a R.J. Burnside & Associates Limited / Neegan Burnside Ltd. employee, you will become part of a supportive group of colleagues across the organization, that work together to provide value and service to our clients, while extending care to each other. We know that our employees are our greatest asset, and thus we strive to provide a positive work/life balance.
Burnside has an over 50-year track record of building a great reputation both internally with their staff and externally with their clients, as an established leader in quality engineering, environmental, project management and consulting services.
Becoming part of the Burnside team opens the door to a wide range of career development, advancement, mentorship and collaboration opportunities across our 12 office locations.
We offer a wide variety of opportunities for our staff, geared to your comfort level in independence and interests. As an agile firm willing to consider a multitude of opportunities as presented by our long-term client base, and in a number of emerging disciplines, we are willing to work with you to set a meaningful career path for you.
We offer:
We are an equal opportunity employer committed to valuing diversity in the workplace and we welcome resumes from all qualified candidates. Burnside will provide reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities throughout the entire recruitment, assessment, and selection process, as required. If you are a person with a disability and require an accommodation during these processes, please contact our Human Resources department.
RJ Burnside and Associates Limited and Neegan Burnside Ltd. Company Profiles
Founded in 1970, R.J. Burnside & Associates Limited is a growing values-driven employee-owned multidiscipline Canadian engineering and environmental consulting firm with over 450 staff. Our consistent commitment to investing in technological advancements and training, in addition to encouraging and promoting professional development, has enabled our firm to meet our ongoing and stated goal of continual improvement.
Founded in 1999, Neegan Burnside Ltd. is a majority-Indigenous owned firm committed to working with Indigenous (First Nation, Metis and Inuit) communities, agencies and industries to meet their infrastructure, development and economic goals while remaining sensitive to culture, values and beliefs. We have completed over 1,500 projects for more than 300 Indigenous communities and agencies throughout North America, many of them repeat clients with whom we work to develop long term and meaningful relationships. We endeavor to provide opportunities with our organization for Indigenous staff, as well as for community members in the projects we deliver.
Our Companies are uniquely integrated, allowing us to coordinate and access resources across both firms. As a result, we offer our clients expertise in many technical disciplines including but not limited to water and wastewater, transportation planning and design, land development, stormwater management, bridges and culverts, building engineering and sciences, municipal drainage, municipal advisory services, environmental planning and ecology, hydrogeology, air and noise, asset management, solid waste, landscape architecture and well drilling & diagnostics.
Together, we actively seek to develop relationships with a broad and diversified client base in the Public, Private and Indigenous sectors. We work on a variety of projects throughout Canada, with 11 office locations in Ontario and one in Manitoba.
We look forward to considering you as a part of our team!
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A diverse, majority Indigenous owned Civil Engineering and Environmental Services company focused on Indigenous and First Nation community clients, including Water and Wastewater Treatment, Building and Site Plans, Solid Waste Management, Land Development and many more technical areas. Our experienced staff work with our clients from concept and feasibility stage development through detailed design, tendering, Contract Administration and Inspection of projects. We utilize our 50+ years of learned experience as an organization working with Indigenous clients to understand each unique situation, and work with our clients to provide a suitable solution that meets their needs.
