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 wants to build a stronger team, guide high-quality delivery, and 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 bring technical credibility, people leadership, client focus, and practice-building experience. You will lead multidisciplinary electrical delivery across buildings and infrastructure markets while connecting with AECOM’s broader national and global technical network.

Why AECOM?

• Deliver Meaningful Work: Contribute to complex building and infrastructure projects that support communities across Canada and beyond.
• Shape and Grow a Practice: Lead the continued development of the London/Kitchener Electrical Engineering team and expand its regional impact.
• Accelerate Your Career: Access leadership pathways, technical networks, mentorship, and opportunities across one of the world’s largest engineering and infrastructure firms.
• Work with Industry Leaders: Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams and specialists across Canada and internationally.
• Flexible & Supportive Environment: Benefit from a collaborative workplace, hybrid work flexibility, competitive compensation, and comprehensive benefits.
• Global Impact: Connect with AECOM’s national and global teams to support complex, high-profile, and future-focused infrastructure solutions.

Once You Are Here:

Your role will combine people leadership, technical oversight, client engagement, and practice growth. You will:

• 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.

Qualifications

Minimum Requirements:

In order to be considered for this position, candidates must possess, at a minimum:

• 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.

Preferred Requirements:

The ideal candidate will bring a strong combination of technical depth, leadership presence, client service, and practice-building experience. Preferred qualifications include:

• 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.

It would be a bonus if you have:

• 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.

Additional Information

Application Instructions:

The following materials are required for your application to be considered:

• Resume
• Cover letter
• Optional project examples

If you are an electrical engineering leader who wants to build a team, influence the direction of a growing practice, and deliver work that matters, we would be pleased to hear from you.

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.