The construction project engineer is on track to the C-suite at Fluor Canada
If you ask Jenna Jamani what her job title is, she pauses before answering “construction project engineer.” The hesitation isn’t because Jamani isn’t sure what she does. Rather, it’s because the 31-year-old has held a range of roles in her nine years at Fluor Canada, and sticking with just one title doesn’t seem quite accurate. “I’ve had the opportunity to do a lot of things within my short career,” Jamani says. And she’s not kidding.
While studying for a degree in chemical engineering at the University of Waterloo, Jamani was hired by Fluor for a four-month internship. After graduation, the company wanted her back and hired her as a chemical engineer. While she liked the work, after five years it started to feel stifling. “It really kept me at my desk with a more cubicle kind of mentality. But I wanted to open up the cubicle doors, my knowledge and my network,” she says. Fluor was happy to help Jamani explore new roles and she transitioned into a sales position. Throughout the following years she went above and beyond the daily grind and spearheaded several internal floor campaigns to raise money for United Way. She even spent four months working for United Way’s city-wide fundraising campaign as a loaned representative from Fluor. She liked non-profit work so much, she almost didn’t leave. By 2013, Jamani was selected as a participant in Fluor’s formal leadership development track, a program that identifies candidates for potential company leadership positions.
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