Samantha Chiste Promoted to Vice President

Samantha Chiste Promoted to Vice President

ANNOUNCEMENT: Samantha Chiste has recently been promoted to a Vice President role at RPA Engineering.  Samantha graduated from Penn State University with a bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering, Manufacturing track, and a Six Sigma minor.  She also obtained a Masters in Business Administration from Penn State.  Samantha joined RPA Engineering with a background in metals manufacturing and has over 10 years of experience in process engineering, lean/continuous improvement, project management, process database systems, capital/asset program management, and operations management.  She has experience managing capital engineering projects from business case development through installation & commissioning.  Much of her career has been in the aluminum industry and she is a member of the Association of Women in the Metal Industries (AWMI).  At RPA, Samantha has worked as a Project Manager for an onsite client and RPA project teams.  She has contributed to the strategic advancement of RPA’s marketing team, by building and maintaining the company’s Q&E portfolio system and working on modernizing our external website.  She is also leading strategic initiatives to improve RPA’s processes for project scheduling, hiring, onboarding, and employee/manager relationships.  Samantha’s new role will focus on continuing to improve RPA’s business operations and processes, to support satisfying our clients’ engineering & design needs.

Related News & Insights

Insights

The biggest structural risks on a project are often the ones no one sees coming. With Pittsburgh’s older building stock, local context can be a...

News

RPA Engineering recently brought our team together for our 2026 Annual Meeting, centered on this year’s theme: Engineering Excellence. As our business continues to strengthen...

News

We’re proud to announce the promotion of Maclean Smith, PE, to Senior Project Manager at RPA Engineering. Since first joining RPA as an intern, Maclean...

Say Hello.

Scroll to Top