Page 15 - Tomlinson Times - Summer 2016

HUMAN RESOURCES

co-op students and interns at tomlinson

This year, Tomlinson partnered with our local college and universities to hire a number of co-op students

and interns. This is a great opportunity for the students to learn about the industry through their work
with Tomlinson, and for Tomlinson to gain fresh and innovative ideas from the students. This is a

huge undertaking as a company, as we are coaching and mentoring our next generation of engineers,

professionals and leaders.

In order to graduate from a co-op program, you must Greenbelt says “it’s a fast paced, challenging work environment.

complete four co-op placements of four months each, or one There is a tremendous wealth of knowledge here and a great

placement of 16 months. So, inding a placement is a top opportunity to learn.” Lakmal Herath who has been placed in
priority for these students.
Heavy Civil shared “I think it’s great to work with people who

We had four available engineering posiions across three care about their company”.

divisions including our City & Commercial, Heavy Civil, and In addiion to the engineering co-op students, we also took

Greenbelt. Overall, we received more than 100 applicaions on three business interns. Cordel Gallichon-Driscoll joined the

from students studing at Algonquin College, Carleton University accouning team, while Conor McLeod and Milissa McDowell

and University of Otawa. The talent from all of the schools was joined the HR team. Internships are unpaid posiions, where
impressive, which made the selecion process challenging for the the students gain industry knowledge and exposure to real-

hiring commitee. Ater interviewing our top eight candidates, world tasks. Milissa, who’s now been hired for the summer, says

we selected Kaie Chu (University of Otawa), Evan Nowosad “working at Tomlinson is a good experience. It’s a large company,

(Carleton University), Riley Smith (Carleton University), and so I’ve had a broad exposure - much more than working at a lot

Lakmal Herath (Carleton University).
of other companies. Plus, it’s a great working environment”.

Since staring their placements with Tomlinson, we have
received very posiive feedback from both management and We look forward to watching these students excel in

the students themselves. Riley Smith, whose placement is at
their placements over the summer months and are
happy to have them join our team!

bursary WinnErs to be SeLeCted Soon!

We would like to thank everyone who applied for this year’s bursary awards.

Many excellent applicaions have been received and

by July 29th we will have completed the assessments of the

applicaions. In mid-August Human Resources will be contacing
all of the candidates with the results of their applicaion. The

bursary cheques are then mailed out in two stages, with the irst
Consideraion is given to the course of study that
cheque sent at the end of August and the second at the end of

January.
the student is enrolled in. For example, students who

For those of you who are not familiar with the Tomlinson are enrolled in courses that relate to the industries

Group Bursary Program, the objecive is to inancially assist that Tomlinson is involved in will be given special
immediate family members of employees or seasonal employees
consideraion. However, students of all diferent ields
who are enrolled in a recognized post-secondary insituion. The
of study are eligible and encouraged to apply. Tomlinson
goal is to provide students and employees with the inancial
believes in training, educaion and development of our
resources necessary to be successful both academically and
employees as well as their children.
inancially during their post-secondary educaion.

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