Electrical Department Manager

About the role

AECOM is seeking an Electrical Department Manager to lead and grow its Electrical Engineering team in the Kitchener/London region. It is a visible leadership role for a licensed electrical engineer who wants to strengthen team capability, ensure high-quality delivery and help shape the next stage of AECOM's electrical practice in Southwestern Ontario. The position fills an existing vacancy and covers multidisciplinary electrical delivery across buildings and infrastructure markets.

Key responsibilities

• Mentor and support electrical engineers, designers and technical staff, and foster a positive, accountable, growth-oriented culture.
• Plan staffing, workload, technical capability, quality and succession readiness.
• Serve as a senior technical leader on selected projects, giving design guidance, engineering judgment, quality reviews and practical problem-solving.
• Oversee electrical design across buildings, institutions, commercial and industrial facilities, water and wastewater, transportation, sustainability and related infrastructure markets.
• Guide medium-voltage and low-voltage power distribution, lighting, life safety, communications, controls and related systems.
• Represent Kitchener/London in the national electrical practice and collaborate with other office electrical managers.
• Strengthen client partnerships, support proposals and pursuits and help grow the regional practice.
• Promote clear scope definition, resource planning, technical coordination, schedule awareness, quality management and early risk identification.
• Advise on sustainable, energy-efficient design solutions and represent AECOM professionally with clients, internal leaders, project teams, consultants, contractors and other stakeholders.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering plus eight years of relevant experience, or equivalent 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.
• Proven ability to mentor engineers, designers and technical staff.
• Holding or ability to obtain at least Reliability Level security clearance.
• Preferred: 20+ years of progressive electrical engineering experience, experience managing an electrical engineering department or technical delivery team, strong client-facing, presentation and negotiation skills, proposal and business development experience, and experience as Engineer of Record, senior technical reviewer or discipline lead.

Required skills

• Medium-voltage and low-voltage power systems, lighting, life safety, communications and control systems.
• Market experience such as industrial and commercial buildings, transportation, water/wastewater, institutional or sustainable infrastructure.
• Ability to lead in a matrixed organization with local, regional, national and global teams.

Additional notes: sponsorship for Canadian employment authorization is not available; new hires must attend an in-person Day 1 onboarding at an AECOM office. Benefits depend on employment status and may include medical, dental, vision, life, AD&D, disability, paid time off, flexible work options, retirement savings plan and employee stock purchase plan.