Full-time Senior Level Compensation: CAD $150,000
- $220,000 total compensation (base + team-performance bonus) Come join our team and help us build an energy-efficient, greener BC On top of building an energy-productive, greener BC, we’re also engineering the CO2 refrigeration systems for the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) and the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMTO), two of the largest telescopes ever attempted. Senior Mechanical Engineer — Team Lead, Vancouver Alternates: Team Lead, Senior Engineer — Custom Heat Pumps & Refrigeration (Vancouver)|Senior Engineer / Vancouver Team Lead — Recreation Facility Decarbonization|Senior Mechanical Engineer — Large Custom Heat Pump Design, Team Lead Vancouver, BC (hybrid/flexible) Full-time Senior Level Compensation: CAD $150,000
- $220,000 total compensation (base + team-performance bonus) Come join our team and help us build an energy-efficient, greener BC On top of building an energy-efficient, greener BC, we’re also engineering the CO2 refrigeration systems for the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) and the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMTO), two of the largest telescopes ever attempted. Polar Engineering is an engineering, design, project management and commissioning consultancy. We specialize in recreation facilities, and we are experts at engineering large custom heat pumps. In a recreation facility you have an ice plant throwing away heat and a building, a pool and domestic hot water that all need it. We design large custom heat pump and energy recovery systems that capture that waste heat, shut down the natural gas boilers, and cut greenhouse gas emissions, while lowering our clients' operating costs. These aren’t catalogue units. They’re engineered around each facility, which is where the interesting work is.



Danfoss named us EnVisioneer of the Year in the Engineering Consultant category for a heat pump project that cut natural gas use by 90% at a BC recreation centre, and we’re a longtime award winner and sponsor with the Recreation Facilities Association of BC (RFABC), including their Climate Action Award. Ian (Polar’s CEO) was named to Canadian Consulting Engineer’s Top 10 Under 40. That’s the equivalent of planting over 150,000 trees. Our clients are arenas, curling clubs and aquatic centres, along with industrial food processing facilities, large buildings like hospitals, and developments running district energy systems. We help them lead, choosing low global warming potential refrigerants and putting in large heat recovery systems. If you’ve ever wanted to build something with actual structure behind it instead of chaos dressed up as hustle, you’ll feel right at home. We just want people who genuinely live these, and we screen hard for them before anyone joins the team. As Vancouver’s Team Lead, you’d be stepping into a team that already lives these values day to day — your job is to keep it that way as you grow it. Our Vancouver office is growing quickly, and we’re looking for a Senior Engineer to join us and lead the team. The office is already built: eight people in Vancouver, a team of six reporting to you, and years of client relationships already in place.



This isn’t a seat you have to build from nothing — it’s a great team and a cool office that’s already running, and the job is to step in and keep it growing. You’d own the technical work, lead the team, and grow the book of business, with a fast track to Principal Engineer for the right person. Team and project resource management Managing the project managers and engineers on your team, and growing them Day to day that looks like leading custom HVAC and energy recovery projects from first site visit to commissioning: scoping systems and selecting equipment, building detailed energy models, working with manufacturers on performance specifications, pricing work with contractors and explaining the specification, presenting to clients, and being on site when the carbon reduction system becomes real. Senior experience in energy recovery, HVAC, boilers, and building mechanical systems Experience with Fortis BC and BC Hydro energy studies A track record of leading people and running projects, not just designing them Solid grounding in thermodynamics, this work rewards people who genuinely understand the cycle Ability to travel around BC and Alberta Nice to have: experience with energy studies and grant applications, and Revit. We like a real work/life balance, which means flexible hours and flexible days, and when the work allows, we knock off early for our favourite west coast activities. You’d have a real seat on the leadership team: weekly meetings where we talk through what’s most important that week, quarterly meetings to set new goals, and annual retreats where we set the direction for the next one to three years. You’d be helping set the direction of our Vancouver office and the company as we grow, instead of having that direction set for you. You’d be stepping into a strong team and a great office, not i

📌 Mechanical Engineering Senior (Vancouver)
🏢 Polar Engineering
📍 Vancouver