Electrical Department Manager
$142,000–$174,000 year
HybridKitchener, Ontario, Canada
Job Summary
Lead and develop the electrical engineering team in the Kitchener/London region through mentorship, staffing planning, and succession readiness. Serve as senior technical leadership on projects, providing design guidance, quality reviews, and problem-solving across buildings, infrastructure, water, and transportation markets. Oversee medium-voltage and low-voltage power systems, lighting, life safety, and controls while collaborating nationally with other office managers. Strengthen client partnerships, support proposals, and promote clear scope definition, resource planning, and early risk identification to improve project outcomes. Champion sustainable, energy-efficient design solutions and represent AECOM professionally with internal and external stakeholders.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering
- eight (8) years of relevant experience
- demonstrated equivalency of experience and/or education
- Licensed Professional Engineer with Professional Engineers Ontario
- Demonstrated electrical design and delivery experience in consulting, infrastructure, design, or multidisciplinary project environments
- Strong leadership, communication, coordination, and decision-making skills
- Proven ability to mentor engineers, designers, and technical staff
- Holding or the ability to obtain minimum Reliability Level security clearance
- 20+ years of progressive electrical engineering experience in consulting, design, or design-build environments
- Experience managing an Electrical Engineering department, discipline group, project team, or technical delivery team
- Strong client-facing, presentation, negotiation, and relationship-building skills
- Experience with proposals, business development, strategic pursuits, and market growth
- Technical expertise in medium-voltage and low-voltage power systems and related building and infrastructure electrical systems, lighting, life safety, communications, and control systems
- Experience across market sectors such as industrial and commercial buildings, transportation, water/wastewater, institutional, or sustainable infrastructure
- Strong record of solving complex engineering problems with sound judgment and client-focused solutions
- Ability to lead effectively in a matrixed organization with local, regional, national, and global teams
- Holding or the ability to obtain Secret Level security clearance
- Experience serving as Engineer of Record, senior technical reviewer, discipline lead, or trusted technical advisor on complex projects
- All newly hired employees are required to attend an in-person Day 1 onboarding at an AECOM office location as a condition of employment
Desired Qualifications
- Sponsorship for Canadian employment authorization is not available for this position
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