Vice President, Engineering and Operations

About us

RST Engineering is a multidiscipline engineering and project delivery firm built around a simple idea: clients should have direct access to highly experienced people who understand both the technical requirements of a project and what it takes to successfully execute the work in the real world.

We combine engineering expertise, practical solutions and responsive project delivery to help industrial, commercial and infrastructure clients move projects from concept through to execution.

Our team brings decades of experience delivering projects across Western Canada. We have deliberately built RST to be technically capable without becoming bureaucratic — giving our clients senior-level knowledge and experience, while understanding our clients’ needs with a team that remains accountable from the first conversation right through to project completion.

Position Summary The Vice President, Engineering and Operations is an executive leadership role responsible for developing engineering capabilities, integrating engineering excellence, operational performance, project delivery, and business growth. The Vice President is responsible to ensure the organization consistently delivers high-quality work, meets client expectations, develops its people, and operates profitably.

The Vice President will balance leadership with business and operational discipline, creating systems and a culture that allow the firm to scale without sacrificing quality, responsiveness, or client relationships.

Key Responsibilities

Organizational Growth

- Work with operational personnel to anticipate staffing, leadership, and capability requirements associated with growth.
- Manage team performance issues and implement corrective actions
- Work with the VP of Growth and Strategy to develop the short, medium, and long-term business strategies, as well as the growth potential in other sectors and markets.
- Recruitment of key operational and technical personnel.
- Help identify future leaders and organizational capabilities required to support business scaling.
- Ensure market commitments are aligned with the organization’s ability to successfully deliver the work.
- Support development of new service offerings, delivery models, and internal capabilities where they provide a competitive advantage.
- Position the company as a credible, differentiated, and trusted partner within its target markets
- Identify priority clients, sectors, geographic regions, and service offerings.
- Evaluate growth opportunities based on revenue potential, profitability, strategic fit, risk, and organizational capability.
- Work with executive leadership to establish growth targets and monitor performance against those targets.

Strategic Planning & Executive Leadership

- Participate as a member of the executive leadership team, contribute to company-wide strategic objective and ownership of operating decisions.
- Participate and contribute to annual and multi-year strategic planning.
- Establish clear priorities, initiatives, milestones, and performance measures.
- Identify and communicate leadership with objective analysis regarding business performance, market opportunities, organizational constraints, and strategic risk.
- Maintain focus on the initiatives most likely to materially increase enterprise value.




- Ensure growth initiatives remain aligned with operational capacity, financial performance, culture, and the company’s long-term objectives.

Brand & Market Positioning

- Help define and strengthen the company’s branding, market position and value proposition.
- Ensure marketing and communications activities support clearly defined commercial objectives.
- Provide strategic direction regarding brand development, company capabilities, identify gaps and manage operational risks.

Engineering Leadership

- Provide strategic direction and leadership across all engineering disciplines and technical teams.
- Ensure engineering standards, methodologies, and best practices are established and maintained
- Ensure technical quality, accuracy, and compliance across projects.
- Provide oversight, risk evaluation and mitigation of complex, high-risk, or high-value projects.
- Support technical problem-solving and decision-making by project teams.
- Promote innovation, technology adoption, and continuous improvement.
- Maintain awareness of industry trends, codes, standards, and emerging technologies.
- Build a culture of technical excellence, accountability, and professional development.
- Manage professional regulatory registration requirements and compliance for the company

Operational Leadership

- Oversee day-to-day operational performance of the engineering organization.
- Develop efficient processes for project delivery, resource allocation, scheduling, and workload management.
- Establish operational KPIs and regularly monitor performance.
- Improve utilization, productivity, project margins, and overall efficiency.
- Identify operational bottlenecks and implement corrective actions.
- Develop scalable systems and processes that support organizational growth.
- Coordinate staffing and resource requirements across projects and disciplines.

Project Delivery and Quality

- Ensure team is executing projects on time, within budget, and to established quality standards.
- Provide oversight of project management practices and project performance.
- Establish consistent project controls, reporting, and forecasting.
- Monitor project profitability, scope, schedule, and risk.
- Strengthen quality assurance and quality control processes.
- Support resolution of major project issues, client concerns, and contractual risks.
- Promote lessons-learned processes and continuous improvement.

Business Development and Client Relationships

- Work closely with the VP of Growth and Strategy to support strategic growth.
- Maintain and strengthen relationships with key clients and stakeholders.
- Participate in proposals, interviews, presentations, and major pursuits.
- Identify opportunities for new services, markets, and strategic partnerships.
- Assist in developing annual business plans and growth strategies.
- Help position the firm as a trusted technical advisor rather than simply a service provider.
- Develop and maintain senior-level relationships with key clients,



industry partners, decision-makers, and stakeholders.
- Ensure strong relationships with existing clients and develop working relationships with new clients

Financial and Business Performance

- Ownership of engineering and operational financial performance.
- Establish and monitor budgets, forecasts, utilization, backlog, revenue, and profitability.
- Improve project margins through effective scope, resource, and cost management.
- Support pricing, fee development, and contract negotiations.
- Identify opportunities to improve revenue and operational efficiency.

Performance Measures Success in the role will be measured through a combination of financial, operational, client, and personnel metrics, including:

- Revenue and gross margin performance
- Project profitability
- Employee utilization
- Backlog and frontlog management
- On-time and on budget project delivery
- Quality and rework performance
- Client satisfaction and retention
- Proposal/pursuit success
- Employee retention
- Staff development and succession readiness
- Operational efficiency
- Achievement of strategic objectives and adherence to the business plan

Qualifications & Experience

- Professional Engineering Designation is a requirement.
- Significant senior leadership experience ideally within engineering, construction, consulting, professional services, infrastructure, industrial, or a related industry.
- Strong experience in industry is an asset.
- Demonstrated success developing and executing business growth strategies.
- Strong record of managing engineering projects.
- Experience managing or influencing P&L; performance.
- Strong commercial judgment and understanding of revenue, margin, utilization, backlog, working capital, and business valuation.
- Experience developing current markets, services, partnerships, or business units.
- Proven ability to operate effectively across business development, operations, finance, and executive leadership.
- Strong negotiation, communication, presentation, and relationship-management capabilities.
- Ability to move comfortably between high-level strategy and hands-on execution.

Decision Authority The VP, Engineering and Operations will have significant authority of:

- Engineering standards and technical practices
- Business profitability and overall P&L;
- Engineering staffing and resource allocation
- Operational processes and systems
- Project delivery practices
- Quality management
- Hiring and staff development
- Project risk escalation
- Engineering technology and software
- Operational budgets

Major capital commitments, acquisitions, and other significant investments will remain subject to the company’s established executive and governance approval processes. RST Engineering is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, religion, gender or gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other legally protected status in Canada. All applicants must be able to show proof of eligibility to work in Canada and applicable qualifications to are required for the role.

We thank all applicants for their interest. However, only those applicants selected for an interview will be contacted

Job Type: Full Time

Job Location: Saskatoon

Work Location: In person

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