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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 motivated to strengthen team capability, ensure high-quality delivery, and help shape the next stage of AECOM’s electrical practice in Southwestern Ontario. The successful candidate will lead multidisciplinary electrical delivery across buildings and infrastructure markets, leveraging AECOM’s national and global technical networks.

Responsibilities

Lead and develop the team: Mentor and support electrical engineers, designers, and technical staff while fostering a positive, accountable, growth-oriented culture.
Plan and strengthen delivery capability: Set direction for staffing, workload planning, technical capability, quality, and succession readiness.
Provide senior technical leadership: Serve as a senior technical leader on selected projects, provide design guidance, engineering judgment, quality reviews, and practical problem-solving.
Oversee electrical design across markets: Support delivery across buildings, institutions, commercial and industrial facilities, water and wastewater, transportation, sustainability, and related infrastructure markets.
Guide core electrical systems design: Oversee medium-voltage and low-voltage power distribution, lighting, life safety, communications, controls, and related building and infrastructure systems.
Collaborate nationally: Represent Kitchener/London within the national electrical practice and collaborate with other office electrical managers to support an integrated national practice.
Build client relationships and support growth: Strengthen trusted client partnerships, support proposals and pursuits, and help grow the regional electrical practice.
Improve project outcomes: Promote clear scope definition, resource planning, technical coordination, schedule awareness, quality management, and early risk identification.
Champion innovation and sustainability: Advance sustainable, energy-efficient, and future-ready design solutions.
Represent AECOM externally and internally: Communicate with professionalism and confidence with 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 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.

Skills

Electrical Engineering
Leadership
Mentoring
Technical Oversight
Client Engagement
Practice Growth
Electrical Design
Medium-voltage power distribution
Low-voltage power distribution
Lighting design
Life safety systems
Communications systems
Controls systems
Project Management
Quality Management
Risk Management
Innovation
Sustainability
Communication
Coordination
Decision-making
Presentation
Negotiation
Relationship-building
Business Development
Proposal Writing

Location

Kitchener/London region
CA - London, ON - 250 York St

Work Type

Hybrid

Experience Level

8+ years of relevant experience
20+ years of progressive 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.
AECOM is a global team of over 50,000 planners, designers, engineers, scientists, digital innovators, program and construction managers and other professionals.
AECOM is the global infrastructure leader, committed to delivering a better world.
AECOM is a trusted professional services firm powered by deep technical abilities, solving clients’ complex challenges in water, environment, energy, transportation and buildings.
AECOM's teams partner with public- and private-sector clients to create innovative, sustainable and resilient solutions throughout the project lifecycle – from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management.
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.