The Ontario Court of Justice has fined a Kitchener man $20,000 for misrepresenting his work as that of a professional engineer.

Robert Sajkunovic pled guilty to six counts of applying the seal of a Cambridge engineering practitioner to six drawings and to a single count of using the title of a professional engineer on a letter submitted to the City of Waterloo with respect to a residential construction project.

Justice Jennifer Thompson levied a fine of $2,700 for each use of the seal on the six drawings and $3,800 for the letter purporting to be from the engineer.

Professional Engineers Ontario administers the Professional Engineers Act and licences the province’s 85,000 individual practitioners and engineering firms. Professional engineers can be identified by the P.Eng. after their names.

When retaining the services of an engineer or engineering firm, the public may search the directories of licensed professional engineers and authorized professional engineering companies at www.peo.on.ca.