R&D Engineer – Mass Timber Connections

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🇨🇦 Canada – Remote

💵 $70k - $115k / year

⏰ Full Time

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🟡 Mid-level

👷🏻‍♀️ Engineer

🚫👨‍🎓 No degree required

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MTC Solutions

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2011

🏗️ Construction

🏭 Manufacturing

🔧 Hardware

Construction • Manufacturing • Hardware

MTC Solutions is a Mass Timber Hardware Specialist that supplies tested, code‑compliant structural hardware and fasteners for mass timber construction across North America. The company offers a broad product range (structural screws, beam hangers, connectors, rigging devices, fall‑arrest anchors, and accessories) and provides R&D, technical support, design resources, and logistics to help engineers and contractors implement sustainable, cost‑efficient timber connections. MTC emphasizes product testing, code alignment, and on‑demand availability (manufacturing in Canada and the US) for commercial, industrial, and residential mass timber projects.

📋 Description

• Plan and execute engineering investigations related to structural connections, fasteners, timber systems, and product performance • Develop and evaluate new connection concepts and improvements to existing MTC products through prototype and validation stages • Perform calculations, analytical modelling, literature reviews, and code-based evaluations • Develop test plans, coordinate specimens and fixtures, support or execute internal testing, coordinate external laboratory programs, and analyze results • Participate in physical testing, including specimen preparation, prototype installation, test setup review, instrumentation support, and failure-mode observation • Interpret experimental results, identify trends and limitations, develop design parameters, and document engineering conclusions • Work with engineers, technologists, suppliers, and fabricators to develop prototypes, fixtures, and test setups • Support technical work related to CSA O86, NDS, ICC-ES evaluation, CCMC, Eurocode 5, AS/NZS, and other standards or approval pathways • Own assigned R&D projects or workstreams, maintaining priorities, schedules, project records, and stakeholder communication • Prepare technical summaries, calculation packages, research reports, test documentation, and recommendations • Collaborate with Product Application Engineering, Operations, Technical Service, Business Development, Marketing, suppliers, universities, and external laboratories

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Civil, Structural, Timber Engineering, or another relevant engineering discipline (preferred) • Professional Engineer (P.Eng.) designation, or EIT able to apply for P.Eng. in the near term • Approximately 2-6 years of relevant structural engineering, applied research, testing, product-development, or building-products experience preferred; exceptional candidates outside this range will also be considered • Strong understanding of structural mechanics, load paths, material behaviour, and engineering fundamentals • Experience with timber engineering, structural connections, fasteners, mass timber, or building products is considered a strong asset • Experience with physical testing, laboratory research, structural testing, or experimental engineering is considered an asset • Experience interpreting design codes and standards such as CSA O86, NDS, Eurocode 5, or similar is considered an asset • Experience with engineering analysis tools, spreadsheets, CAD, or numerical modelling • Ability to work through open-ended technical problems, form engineering recommendations, and communicate the reasoning behind them • Strong project-management, organizational, technical writing, and communication skills • Ability to work independently while seeking appropriate technical review and collaborating effectively with a multidisciplinary team • Proficiency in English required