Canadian- Renewable Energy – Vice President, Engineering

Our client is a market-leader in Canada’s clean energy sector with a focus on solar photovoltaics, energy storage and electric vehicle charging. They provide fully integrated product solutions for multiple market segments as well as a range of services. This is a well-established, profitable and fast-growing company in an exciting and growing industry.

Scope of Position

Reporting to the CEO and partnering with the senior leadership team, the Vice President, Engineering will be focused on ensuring a balance between engineering discipline and organizational growth while continuously improving company culture and operational excellence. The successful candidate will play a key role by leading a medium-sized team across three departments, including
1) electrical engineering,
2) mechanical and product engineering, and
3) operations & maintenance. This opportunity will appeal to individuals with strong product and project engineering skills as well as strong management experience that want to make a real impact within a rapidly expanding industry.

Functional Tasks

• Work with the senior management team to develop, refine and implement the strategic direction for the engineering team while ensuring tight alignment of strategies, technologies, people and processes with other business units.
• Be a champion for continued growth and operational excellence through strong communication and continuous improvement of internal processes by ensuring ongoing collaboration between the engineering team and other core teams, including the delivery of product- and service-related technical support to the sales and marketing team.
• Drive a structured product development and management process for the company’s in-house manufactured/assembled products. This includes developing and executing against product roadmaps, oversight of costing and quality assurance and customer-focused support tools. Products involve electrical, structural and mechanical engineering disciplines.
• Provide leadership and oversight for the delivery of services to clients through the project lifecycle (from early-stage development, to installation/construction and ongoing operations and maintenance activities) and across multiple technical service categories (electrical, mechanical and structural engineering).
• Promote a strong dependable team environment and one-company culture through strong leadership and the effective use of mentoring, coaching, performance management and skills development. Conduct annual performance reviews, salary reviews and career development planning for all engineering team member. Support internal training through curriculum development and ensue training delivery (directly and via engineering team members).
• Develop hiring plans to build and retain world class capabilities and work with HR to execute through both internal and external recruitment.
• Contribute to the development of the company’s annual budget through collaboration with the CEO and other senior leaders and manage the engineering business unit annual budget. Take responsibility for and track progress for key performance metrics (such as revenues, costs, time, quality) for engineering services across project and product delivery offerings.
• Alongside the CEO and other senior leaders, make regular presentations to the Board of Directors on key performance indicators for the company.
• Serve as an ambassador for the company by representing it at conferences, speaking engagements, and other external industry related events as well as through participation on standards bodies, industry association working groups and external training initiatives.

Competency Profile

Integrity & Sincerity:
Inspires trust and supports others through own authenticity and following up on commitments. Maintains high ethical standards both personally and professionally. Shows consistency among principles.

Strategic Approach:
Develops a strategic plan to realize the vision. Revises strategy in light of changing circumstances. Works to clarify organizational goals. Able to stand back from immediate problems in order to focus on more far-reaching ideas.

Role Expertise:
Demonstrates critical technical or…