Electrical Department Manager

AECOM•Kitchener, ON

8h•CA$142,000 - CA$174,000•Hybrid

About The Position

AECOM is seeking an Electrical Department Manager to lead and grow its Electrical Engineering team in the Kitchener/London region. This is a leadership role for a licensed electrical engineer responsible for building a stronger team, guiding high-quality delivery, and shaping the electrical practice in Southwestern Ontario. The role combines people leadership, technical oversight, client engagement, and practice growth. The successful candidate will lead, mentor, and develop electrical engineers, designers, and technical staff, foster a positive team culture, and set direction for staffing, workload planning, technical capability, quality, and succession readiness. They will also serve as a senior technical leader on selected projects, providing design guidance, engineering judgment, quality review, and problem-solving. The role involves guiding electrical design delivery across multiple sectors including buildings, institutions, commercial and industrial facilities, water and wastewater, transportation, and sustainability. Responsibilities include overseeing electrical systems design (medium-voltage and low-voltage power distribution, lighting, life safety, communications, controls), representing the Kitchener/London office in the national electrical practice, building client relationships, supporting proposals, and strengthening project outcomes through scope definition, resource planning, technical coordination, schedule awareness, quality management, and risk identification. The role also champions sustainable, energy-efficient, innovative, and future-ready design solutions and represents AECOM professionally with clients, leaders, teams, consultants, and 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.

Nice To Haves

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.

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.