Blast Consultant/Engineer

Baker Engineering and Risk Consultants, Inc. (BakerRisk) provides services to industries and governments around the world to assess the consequences and risks associated with potentially catastrophic events including explosions, fires, and toxic material releases. Our research and development programs make us a technology leader with advanced methodologies and tools to predict potential consequences, analyze risk, and design protection, prevention, and mitigation systems for such catastrophic events.

Our Canadian office located in Burlington, ON is seeking an in-office full-time entry level engineer in our Blast Effects section.

The successful applicant will assist senior staff members in evaluating flammability and explosion phenomena; predicting blast and fragment loads; researching explosions; and preparing technical proposals, reports and presentations. A large focus of the position will be supporting consequence- and risk-based facility siting studies (FSSs) for BakerRisk clients located in North America and supporting propane quantitative risk analyses (QRAs) for BakerRisk clients located in Ontario, Canada.

Requirements: A bachelor’s or master's degree in mechanical engineering or related discipline is required. Experience in blast/combustion is desired. Prior field/lab-scale testing, computational fluid dynamics (CFD), and/or work experience in the chemical processing, petroleum refining, petrochemical or oil/gas industries is preferred. A candidate for this position must be detail oriented and well organized. Future eligibility for OIQ in Quebec is desirable, but not required.

The position is in-person (i.e., not remote). Travel is required and may be up to 50% of working days, primarily within Canada and the US; candidate must be able to secure status to work in the US for project work (e.g., on a TN Visa). Limited travel outside of North America would also be expected. Most trips would be less than 5 days. Travel to several client sites within a given month should be expected.

BakerRisk offers a competitive salary and benefit package including holiday, vacation and sick leave pay, medical/dental insurance, matching retirement savings plan, and potential for a significant year-end bonus.

Candidates must be legally able to work in Canada at this time. BakerRisk is committed to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

We maintain a drug-free workplace. Please note that final candidates for this position will be required to undergo a confidential pre-employment background check which includes educational, criminal, credit, drug and alcohol testing, which includes but is not limited to screening for marijuana.

BakerRisk will endeavor to provide accommodation to persons with disabilities in the recruitment process upon request. If you are selected for an interview and you require accommodation due to a disability, please notify us upon scheduling your interview.

Additional Information: For additional information, please see our website at www.BakerRisk.com