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About the Role

AECOM is seeking an Electrical Department Manager to lead and grow our Electrical Engineering team in the Kitchener/London region. This visible leadership role is for a licensed electrical engineer who wants to build a stronger team, guide high-quality delivery, and shape the future of AECOM's electrical practice in Southwestern Ontario.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and develop electrical engineers, designers, and technical staff while fostering a positive, accountable, and growth-oriented team culture.
• Set direction for staffing, workload planning, technical capability, quality, and succession readiness.
• Serve as a senior technical leader on selected projects, providing design guidance, engineering judgment, quality review, and practical problem-solving.
• Guide electrical design delivery across multiple sectors, including buildings, institutions, commercial and industrial facilities, water and wastewater, transportation, sustainability, and related infrastructure markets.
• Oversee electrical systems design, including medium-voltage and low-voltage power distribution, lighting, life safety, communications, controls, and related building and infrastructure systems.
• Represent Kitchener/London within the national electrical practice, collaborating with other office electrical managers to build an integrated national practice.
• Build trusted client relationships, support proposals and pursuits, and help grow the regional electrical practice.
• Strengthen project outcomes through clear scope definition, resource planning, technical coordination, schedule awareness, quality management, and early risk identification.
• Champion sustainable, energy-efficient, innovative, and future-ready design solutions.
• Represent AECOM with professionalism and confidence in front of clients, internal leaders, project teams, consultants, contractors, and other stakeholders.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering + eight (8) years of relevant experience or 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 environment.
• 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.
• Minimum 15 years of progressive relevant electrical engineering experience.
• 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 growing or transforming an engineering team.
• Experience leading technical delivery across multiple offices, regions, or business lines.
• Experience serving as Engineer of Record, senior technical reviewer, discipline lead, or trusted technical advisor on complex projects.
• Experience with high-profile public-sector, transportation, water, institutional, healthcare, laboratory, industrial, mission-critical, or architecturally significant projects.
• Experience developing technical standards, design tools, delivery procedures, training material, or quality improvement initiatives.
• Interest in advancing digital delivery, automation, energy transition, decarbonization, and next-generation electrical design solutions.

Skills

• Electrical Engineering
• Leadership
• Mentoring
• Client Engagement
• Practice Growth
• Electrical Design
• Power Distribution
• Lighting
• Life Safety
• Communications
• Controls
• Medium-Voltage Systems
• Low-Voltage Systems
• Proposal Development
• Business Development
• Project Management
• Quality Management
• Risk Management
• Sustainable Design
• Energy Efficiency
• Digital Delivery
• Automation
• Energy Transition
• Decarbonization

Location

• Kitchener, Ontario
• London, Ontario

Work Type

• Hybrid

Experience Level

• 8+ years of relevant experience
• 20+ years of progressive electrical engineering experience
• 15+ years of progressive relevant electrical engineering experience

Education Level

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering
• Licensed Professional Engineer

Salary/Compensations

• CAD 142000 - CAD 174000 - yearly

Benefits

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• Life insurance
• AD&D insurance
• Disability benefits
• Paid time off
• Leaves of absences
• Voluntary benefits
• Perks
• Flexible work options
• Well-being resources
• Employee assistance program
• Business travel insurance
• Service recognition awards
• Retirement savings plan
• Employee stock purchase plan

About the Company

• AECOM is the world's trusted infrastructure consulting firm, partnering with clients to solve the world’s most complex challenges and build legacies for future generations.
• We are a global team of over 50,000 planners, designers, engineers, scientists, digital innovators, program and construction managers and other professionals.
• AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm that had revenue of $16.1 billion in fiscal year 2025.

Equal Opportunity

• As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in your potential and are here to help you achieve it. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
• Artificial intelligence will be used to support the screening, assessment, and selection of applicants for this role. Final hiring decisions are made by the hiring team.