Electrical Department Manager

Job Description

AECOM is seeking an Electrical Department Manager to lead and grow our Electrical Engineering team in the Kitchener/London region. This is a visible leadership role for a licensed electrical engineer who is motivated to strengthen team capability, ensure high-quality delivery, and help shape the next stage of AECOM’s electrical practice in Southwestern Ontario. This position is to fill an existing position within the team.

The successful candidate will lead multidisciplinary electrical delivery across buildings and infrastructure markets, while leveraging AECOM’s national and global technical networks.

What You’ll Do

This role blends people leadership, technical oversight, client engagement, and practice growth. Key responsibilities include:

• 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.

Qualifications

Minimum 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.

Preferred Requirements

• 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.

Additional Information

Sponsorship for Canadian employment authorization is not available for this position.

At AECOM, we are committed to maintaining a secure and trustworthy recruitment process and take any fraudulent hiring activity seriously. To support this commitment, all newly hired employees are required to attend an in-person Day 1 onboarding at an AECOM office location as a condition of employment.

About AECOM

AECOM is proud to offer comprehensive benefits to meet the diverse needs of our employees. Depending on your employment status, AECOM benefits may include medical, dental, vision, life, AD&D, 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, and employee stock purchase plan.

AECOM is the global infrastructure leader, committed to delivering a better world. As a trusted professional services firm powered by deep technical abilities, we solve our clients’ complex challenges in water, environment, energy, transportation and buildings. Our 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. Learn more at aecom.com.

What makes AECOM a great place to work

You will be part of a global team that champions your growth and career ambitions. Work on groundbreaking projects - both in your local community and on a global scale - that are transforming our industry and shaping the future. With cutting-edge technology and a network of experts, you’ll have the resources to make a real impact. Our award-winning training and development programs are designed to expand your technical expertise and leadership skills, helping you build the career you’ve always envisioned. Here, you’ll find a welcoming workplace built on respect, collaboration and community - where you have the freedom to grow in a world of 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.