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, skilled 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 Digi

📌 Manager, Digital Practice (Ottawa)
🏢 R.V. Anderson Associates
📍 Ottawa