Do work that matters with a team that cares.
As problem solvers at heart, we take pride in our work and enjoy helping each other excel. If you crave a flexible and fast-paced work environment to deepen your experience, solve challenges for clients, and impact your community, we are your team.
Collaborative. Creative. Hands-on.
Working with each other to learn from each other helps us understand our projects in new ways. That’s how each member of the Novatech team makes us better at what we do.
Our project teams pull together across disciplines and seniority levels. Bringing varied expertise to the same table enables us to widen our perspectives. And by working within this bigger picture, we have more space to bring innovative solutions together and grow as professionals. With the flexibility that gives project teams the freedom to create their own workflows, our priority is to support them in integrating their expertise to find the optimal solution every time.
Incentives that go beyond good coffee and great company.
We take satisfaction in a job well done—but that’s not the only benefit to our work!
These added perks put an extra spring in our steps:
Perks
- Free parking
- Fully furnished lunch room complete with fridges, microwaves, and a well-stocked coffee bar, plus another coffee bar on the upper floor. (What can we say—it keeps us going!)
- Local shops and amenities in walking distance—so you can hit the gym in the morning and pick up groceries after work without losing extra time from your day
- Picnic tables to enjoy your lunch outside
- Spacious office grounds backed by greenspace. Don’t forget to say hi to the deer!
Benefits
- Hybrid work (office/remote) options for eligible staff
- Annual professional dues paid
- Competitive compensation
- Comprehensive health and dental package
- RRSP or TFSA matching program
- Annual profit sharing program for eligible participants
- Training and development opportunities
- Share purchase opportunities for eligible longer-term employees
- Student loans repayment matching program
Mentorship and advancement opportunities to get you ahead.
Where do you see your career heading in five years, ten years, or more? Mentorship is a big part of Novatech’s culture, and it’s integral to the way we structure our project teams and office environment.
Within project teams, professionals from multiple disciplines and seniority levels will collaborate to help you understand the full picture—while offering the opportunities you need to advance your experience. Outside our teams, Novatech peers enjoy a culture of knowledge-sharing throughout the office, whether it happens at the coffee bar or the kitchen.
With a mutual curiosity and work ethic, we will work to help you gain the experience you need to get where you want to go—because building long-term solutions is what we do.
The hiring process: what you need to know
It’s hard to plan without knowing what to expect (and we would never leave you in the dark).
Here’s how hiring happens at Novatech.
Submit your resume.
Whether it’s for an open position or for general consideration, we would love to hear from you! Click here to see our available positions.
Meet with our team.
If your resume looks like a good fit for our team, we will reach out to schedule an interview—usually with someone from our HR group and the senior manager responsible for the firm’s practice in your area of expertise.
Confirm your employment.
The interview(s) went well, and now it's time to nail down the details. We will work with you to confirm your role and responsibilities, contract, compensation, and benefits package.
Welcome aboard!
We are thrilled to welcome you to the team! We can't wait to work with you, learn from you, and build great things with you.
Connecting with the people and places around us.
We are proud that our strong team connections and local roots run deep. The Ottawa area isn’t just a market to us—it’s our home, and we love helping to shape the community we live and work in. This includes the culture of our own office. We support our team in doing and being their best as members of our staff and broader community. Whether it’s professional support, community support, or supporting employee-driven activities, the following initiatives hit close to home:
Women in Land Development (WILD)
We look forward to supporting our female team members in attending the Women in Land Development (WILD) events each year! Develop valuable new connections to support you in your career journey—and learn from the insights and perspectives while networking with other local female professionals in land development.
Lunch and Learns
Grab your lunches and a seat—our culture of continuous learning includes on- and off-site group discussions supporting professional development. Whether the focus means advancing industry knowledge or improving our own internal processes, we firmly believe there’s always more to learn.
Novatech Social Committee and Activities
When we aren’t getting things done, we enjoy spending time together outside of work, too! Our social committee activities include both annual and regularly occurring activities to help our team get to know each other better. From the yearly golf tournament and holiday party to staff barbeques, pizza days, pub nights, and craft nights, there’s always room to participate.
Charitable Giving
Giving back means doing what we can to help our broader community thrive, and it’s a natural extension of what we do. From pro bono planning and engineering services to matching staff-raised donations, we are proud to give back! Our current and past contributions include social committee- and employee-run initiatives for:
- Habitat for Humanity
- The Ottawa Humane Society
- Breast Cancer Society of Canada
- Interval House Women’s Shelter
- Toy Mountain
- Heart & Stroke
- The Ottawa Mission
- Men’s Health (Movember)
- The Salvation Army & Red Cross
- Ottawa Regional Cancer Society
- Canadian Mental Health Association
- Ottawa Food Bank
- Red Cross
Frequently asked questions
Have some questions in mind? See if our FAQ’s apply to you!
It’s important to us that our team has the tools they need to do their best work, and our tools, like our specialties, are always evolving. At Novatech, we’re consistent early adopters of leading-edge software and specialty programs such as SWMHYMO, HEC-RAS, PCSWMM/EPA SWMM, SWMHYMO/Visual OTTHYMO, Bluebeam, Syncro, AutoTurn, and more.
Every team member has the opportunity to make impactful problem-solving contributions to our projects. Most often, this means working on cross-disciplinary teams that combine diverse expertise to address varied requirements. Because each project is unique, our project teams develop workflows that make the most sense for them. It’s part of what makes them so effective in bringing their best to the table.
However, some parts of working on Novatech projects always stay the same! For you, this includes insight into early decision-making, individual and team mentorship, and the ability to participate during transformative phases of the projects you’re on. Here are some examples of what this might look like:
- Collaborate during workload coordination, construction coordination, and project team meetings
- Conduct site visits to align with construction and inspection staff
- Communicate with approvals agencies, external consultants, Ontario land surveyors, and municipal councilors
- Gain visibility of high-level decision-making at the start of each project
Make your mark in the details and preparation of technical work like approvals applications, reports, and construction drawings through to close-out.
Our active, collaborative, and informal atmosphere offers the flexibility to adapt your office environment to the needs of the day. With informal meetings that happen anywhere from the stairwell to the hallway, as well as individual workspaces that give you a quiet spot to put your head down, our atmosphere of consistent communication and deep thought leverages the complete expertise of the Novatech team.
Where does your big picture begin? Browse our available positions to find out!