Electrical Department Manager

Electrical Department Manager Full-time State/Province: Ontario Business Group: DCS Legal Entity: AECOM Canada ULC Business Line: B&P - Buildings & Places Work Location Model: Hybrid Operating Group: Americas Primary Location: CA - London, ON - 250 York St Compensation: CAD 142000 - CAD 174000 - yearly Company Description Work with Us. Change the World. At AECOM, we're delivering a better world. Whether improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water, or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive. We are the world's trusted infrastructure consulting firm, partnering with clients to solve the world’s most complex challenges and build legacies for future generations. There has never been a better time to be at AECOM. With accelerating infrastructure investment worldwide, our services are in great demand. We invite you to bring your bold ideas and big dreams and become part of a global team of over 50,000 planners, designers, engineers, scientists, digital innovators, program and construction managers and other professionals delivering projects that create a positive and tangible impact around the world. We're one global team driven by our common purpose to deliver a better world. Join us.

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.

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