What Quality Engineered Solutions does

Quality Engineered Solutions Ltd. (QES) is a private mechanical engineering consulting firm founded in 1999 and headquartered in Burlington, Ontario, with a secondary office in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. The firm specializes in mechanical engineering and MEP design services for industrial process facilities, with deep domain expertise in ventilation engineering, refrigeration systems design, and utilities and process piping. Its primary served verticals are food & beverage processing (meat, dairy, seafood, snack manufacturing) and general manufacturing, with adjacent work in mining, oil & gas, indoor farming, pulp & paper, and pharmaceuticals. QES employs 11–50 people, with a leadership team of three executives carrying a combined approximately 80 years of industry experience, led by Founder & CEO Rick Allen (licensed as both a Canadian P.Eng and US PE) and COO Rob Burtt (in the industrial process industry since 1989).

The firm's technical capabilities are built on industry-standard platforms — Revit, AutoCAD, Navisworks, Plant 3D, and Inventor — supporting BIM-based design, 3D modeling, clash detection, fabrication drawing generation, and reality capture via laser scanning and photogrammetry. QES executes projects through a structured six-step engagement process: System Evaluation, Preliminary Design, Preliminary Cost Estimation, Procurement, Project Management/Construction, and Testing and Commissioning. Service lines span the full project lifecycle, from planning and field technical services through turnkey construction management.

QES generates revenue through project-based professional engineering consulting engagements, serving enterprise clients including McCain Foods, Cargill, Conagra Brands, Simplot, Clearwater, Agropur, Old Dutch, Birchwood Foods, Ocean Choice, Piller's Fine Foods, and Groupe Bel Canada. Go-to-market is direct enterprise sales via client outreach, referrals, and relationship-based business development led by a Director of Business Development. The firm claims project delivery across six continents, with named US project activity in Wisconsin, South Carolina, Maine, and South Dakota, though the company is privately held with no disclosed revenue, funding history, or financial statements.

Name

Quality Engineered Solutions

Legal name

Quality Engineered Solutions Ltd.

Website

https://qes.ca

Company type

Private

Founded year

1999

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Quality Engineered Solutions is a private Canadian mechanical engineering consulting firm, founded in 1999, specializing in ventilation, refrigeration, and process piping design for industrial facilities, primarily serving food & beverage processors and manufacturers across North America and internationally.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Fredericton

HQ country

Canada

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Engineering Consulting Services: QES generates revenue by providing specialized mechanical engineering consulting services on a project basis. Services are delivered through a structured 6-step engagement process (System Evaluation, Preliminary Design, Preliminary Cost Estimation, Procurement, Project Management/Construction, Testing and Commissioning), with projects spanning new facility builds, plant expansions, and process room upgrades. The firm serves as both designer and, in some cases, design-build contractor.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Quality Engineered Solutions (QES) is a mechanical engineering consulting firm that designs ventilation, refrigeration, utilities and process piping systems, and delivers MEP design, BIM/VDC coordination, reality capture, field technical services, and construction project management for industrial processing facilities — primarily food and beverage, pharmaceutical, and manufacturing plants. The firm executes a structured six-step project process from system evaluation through testing and commissioning, serving enterprise clients across Canada, the United States, and projects on six continents.

Product overview

Quality Engineered Solutions (QES) is a mechanical engineering consulting firm offering two core service lines: Mechanical Engineering Services and MEP Design. The Mechanical Engineering portfolio includes Ventilation Engineering, Refrigeration Systems Design, Utilities & Process Piping Engineering, Field Technical Services, and Construction Services. The MEP Design portfolio encompasses Planning, Engineering for Commercial Spaces, BIM & VDC Solutions, Reality Capture & Laser Scanning, and Software Solutions. The company specializes in industrial process environments, particularly for food and beverage, pharmaceutical, manufacturing, and other industrial sectors, providing services from evaluation and design through to construction and commissioning.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Mechanical Engineering Services

Quantifiable outcome

• Eliminated positive listeria analyses in meat processing facility by redesigning evaporator and ventilation system to reduce humidity and standing water
• +5 more outcomes

Named customers12 records

Segments8 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature5 records

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Burns & McDonnell: Burns & McDonnell is a large US-based engineering, architecture, and construction firm serving food and consumer products, manufacturing, and industrial clients. Its process and facilities engineering practice competes with QES for industrial engineering projects.
• WSP Global: WSP is one of the world's largest engineering professional services firms with property and buildings, environment, and industrial practices. Its industrial mechanical engineering capability competes for the same food processing and industrial MEP work that QES performs, as part of a much broader portfolio.
• Jensen Hughes: Jensen Hughes is a global engineering and consulting firm with deep food and beverage, industrial, and life sciences expertise. It overlaps with QES on industrial ventilation, process safety, and code compliance work for food processors and industrial clients.
• Stantec: Stantec is a global engineering, architecture, and environmental services firm that serves food processing, manufacturing, and industrial clients across North America. It is a broad incumbent whose industrial engineering practice overlaps with QES's industrial process ventilation and MEP work, though it serves many other verticals as well.
• GHD: GHD is a global engineering, architecture, and environmental consulting firm with significant food and beverage and industrial process sector exposure. It is a broad incumbent competing for industrial MEP and process engineering engagements in Canada and the US.

Direct peers

• Stellar: Stellar is a design, engineering, and construction firm focused on food processing, cold storage, and industrial facilities. It directly competes with QES in industrial ventilation, refrigeration, and process-piping engineering for food and beverage processors.
• CRB: CRB is an engineering, architecture, and consulting firm specializing in life sciences, food and beverage, and advanced technology facilities. It is a direct peer because it competes for the same food-processing and industrial-process mechanical engineering and MEP design work that QES delivers.
• Affiliated Engineers: Affiliated Engineers is an MEP and process systems engineering consultancy serving industrial, healthcare, and research clients. It is a direct peer in the mechanical/process engineering consulting space where QES competes for industrial clients.
• AVID Engineering: AVID Engineering is a US-based industrial mechanical engineering firm led by Rick Allen, who is also QES's CEO. The two firms collaborate and compete in the same industrial ventilation and process engineering niche across North America.
• Pinnacle Engineering: Pinnacle Engineering is a mid-sized industrial mechanical and process engineering firm serving food processing, dairy, and industrial manufacturing clients. It is comparable to QES in scale, vertical focus, and end-to-end project delivery model.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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