Manager, Digital Practice

R.V. Anderson Associates (RVA) is a proudly Canadian‑owned consulting engineering firm with 78 years of experience shaping the future that defines our communities across the country. With approximately 500 employees in 11 offices nationwide, RVA delivers integrated, multi‑disciplinary engineering expertise across five provinces.

Our practice is founded on a strong set of values that unite people, projects, and the planet. Guided by these principles, RVA fosters a collaborative, high performance culture where technical excellence, environmental responsibility, and professional development are integral to our work. We are dedicated to investing in our people, promoting knowledge sharing, and delivering sustainable engineering solutions that create meaningful, lasting impact for communities—now and for future generations.

RVA is looking for an experienced Manager, Digital Practice who will be responsible for CAD and BIM standards, the engineering application portfolio, automation, and digital workflows used in project execution.

The Manager, Digital Practice leads this function and advances the firm’s digital delivery capability. The role requires combined engineering delivery and technology experience, current knowledge of AI and automation capability applicable to professional engineering practice, and the ability to work effectively with both engineering and IT stakeholders.

Based out of any of our Ontario offices, the successful candidate will be reporting directly to RVA’s Vice President, Information Technology & Information Management.

Duties:

Digital Delivery Strategy

• Own and advance the firm’s digital practice roadmap, including CAD and BIM maturity, model-based delivery, common data environment, and asset-data capability, with defined sequencing and outcomes.
• Advise pursuit teams and practice leaders on digital delivery requirements in RFPs and client specifications, including BIM execution plans and ISO 19650 or client-specific information management requirements.
• Benchmark the firm’s digital delivery capability against peers and client expectations in the municipal, water and wastewater, transportation, and infrastructure sectors, and recommend investment priorities.

Engineering Application Portfolio and Standards

• Own the engineering application portfolio, including Autodesk AEC products, Bentley products, hydraulic and process modelling tools, and GIS, covering standards, configuration, upgrade cycles, and license management.
• Maintain CAD and BIM standards, templates, content libraries, and title blocks, and ensure they are current, documented, and consistently applied across offices and disciplines.
• Establish model and drawing quality management practices, including data integrity checks, model audits, and management of legacy content.
• Define digital deliverable quality control requirements with discipline leads, recognizing that engineering sign-off remains with the practitioners of record.
• Manage software vendor and reseller relationships, including renewals, support performance, and roadmap commitments.

AI and Emerging Technology in Engineering Practice

• Identify, evaluate, pilot, and scale AI and automation capability in engineering workflows, including design assistance, document and specification review, quantity and drawing extraction, model checking, retrieval over project history, and task automation.
• Operate within the firm’s AI governance framework, including the sanctioned tool list, generative AI policy and procedure, and AI deployment strategy, and bring proposals forward through that process.
• Assess emerging tools against professional obligations, practice requirements, documentation and record retention triggers, professional liability exposure, and restrictions on AI use.
• Validate vendor capability claims through structured evaluation prior to adoption.
• Build staff capability through training, written guidance, and a network of digital champions across offices and disciplines.

Automation, Data, and Integration

• Direct development of automation that reduces repetitive production effort, using Dynamo, LISP, .NET and other APIs, PowerShell, Power Platform, and scripted model and data auditing.
• Collaborate on standards for documentation, version control, testing, support, and retirement of internally developed tools.
• Work with the IT/IM team to enhance integration between engineering tools and core business systems, linking corporate datasets.
• Ensure engineering content is created and stored in a manner that supports the firm’s managed content platform, retention obligations, and downstream search and retrieval.

Leadership

• Lead, develop, and set Digital Practice priorities.
• Manage the Digital Practice budget, including software licensing, training, and initiative expenditure.
• Lead the CAD/BIM process improvement committee.
• Represent Digital Practice to leadership, practice leaders, and project managers, and report on capability, adoption, and results.
• Other related duties as assigned/required and appropriate to this position.

Qualifications:

Required

• Degree in engineering, or an engineering technology diploma with equivalent practice experience.
• Eight or more years of combined engineering delivery and technology experience, including at least three years in a leadership or digital practice role.
• Production experience in a consulting engineering, architecture, or construction environment, including development and checking of project deliverables.
• Good working knowledge of CAD and BIM platforms and standards including template, content, and reference management at an enterprise level.
• Familiarity with application of AI or advanced automation to professional or technical workflows.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to present to executive audiences.

Preferred

• P.Eng., C.E.T., or equivalent professional designation.
• Experience in municipal infrastructure, water and wastewater, or transportation sectors.
• Familiarity with ISO 19650, BIM execution planning, and public-sector digital delivery specifications.
• Scripting or development capability in Dynamo, Python, .NET, PowerShell, or LISP sufficient to prototype and to review the work of others.
• Experience with enterprise content platforms, common data environments, or GIS integration.
• Exposure to AI governance, professional liability, or regulatory practice requirements in a licensed engineering context.

Your better starts here

We don’t settle for less, and neither should you. As it happens, offering great benefits to our people is entirely possible: the numbers work out. Happy teams mean happy clients. It’s just that simple. From recruitment to flexibility, learning to leadership, wellness to inclusion, we give our people the tools they need to outperform in their careers and build lasting connections with our clients, our culture, and each other.

• Competitive compensation packages and performance-based bonuses
• Health, paramedical, vision, and dental coverage
• A flexible vacation policy that lets you determine your time off based on your other responsibilities and needs
• Top-up plans for new and expecting parents
• Firm-paid holidays, summer and winter breaks, and other leaves of absence that cover everything from extra family time, jury duty, or even completing a degree
• RVA Group Pension Plan with match
• Global Travel Assist Program that provides emergency out-of-country medical protection for you and your eligible family members on personal and business trips
• Access to a variety of free services (e.g., employee and family assistance programs, nutrition advice, caregiver support) and employee discounts (e.g., sports and entertainment tickets, major brands, insurance plans)
• Flexible and alternative work arrangements around core hours, including telecommuting and work-from-home options

Diversity, Inclusion, and Accommodations:

At RVA, we are committed to fostering a workforce that reflects the diversity of the communities in which we operate. RVA is an Equal Opportunity Employer that considers applicants without regard to age, race, colour, national origin, citizenship, sex, sexual orientation, religion, creed, marital status, disability, or any other protected status. If you require any special accommodations, please advise Human Resources. Any information received relating to accommodations will be treated as confidential.

Recruitment Agencies

RVA welcomes interest by individual applicants. For resumes or applications submitted by agencies or recruiters with which RVA does not have an agreement in place, RVA will not pay any referral fee. Unsolicited resumes or applications from agencies or recruiters will be deemed to have been referred without fee or other charges.

At RVA, we use AI in our applicant tracking system to improve the efficiency and fairness of recruitment. Your application may be reviewed by both AI and our hiring team for a thorough evaluation.

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