Mechanical & Electrical Lead - Central Canada

AtkinsRéalis Canada Inc.; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working culture

Job summary

AtkinsRéalis Canada Inc. seeks a Regional Practice Leader for its Mechanical & Electrical Practice in Ontario, based in Toronto.

You will lead engineers and technicians, drive regional growth, and ensure safety and excellence across projects while coordinating resources and maintaining budgets. You will collaborate with the Global Technology Center, engage clients, and participate in business development to expand opportunities for Canada and globally.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in mechanical or electrical engineering and licensed/eligible for membership.
• 10+ years of leadership experience in technical teams and operations.
• Strong English communication; French is an asset.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow regional operations across Ontario with a focus on collaboration and safety.
• Manage budgets, overhead costs, and resource coordination across teams.
• Develop internal/external networks and lead business development activities.
• Oversee project performance reviews and ensure client satisfaction.
• Contribute to proposals and coordinate with Market Leads and Proposal teams.

Skills

Leadership

Project management

Business development

Communication

Team building

Budgeting

Education

Bachelor's degree in mechanical or electrical engineering

Tools

MS Office

ERP systems

Job description

Job Description Overview

The Mechanical & Electrical Practice is looking for a Regional Practice Leader to spearhead a dynamic team engineers and technicians in the Technical Professional Organization (TPO), spread across our offices in Ontario. This position will be based in one of our offices of Toronto. Your role Lead and grow our regional operations across our main Markets with a focus on collaboration and excellence as well as instil a culture of safety, integrity, diversity, equality, and inclusiveness. Actively manage operational costs to approved budgets and forecasts, while minimizing overhead costs. Maximize chargeability of the group, while ensuring a healthy work-life balance, by coordinating resources with other teams, inside or outside of your Practice. Coordinate with our Global Technology Center (GTC) and increase usage over time where possible in your sub-practice. Develop and maintain internal and external networks to strategically position the department on ongoing and upcoming projects in Canada and globally. Steer performance for project execution by holding regular project performance reviews. Cascade sales objectives and manage their achievement (pipeline, win rate, etc.). Evaluate business opportunities in collaboration with the various Market Leads and participate in business development activities. Control adherence to the commercial and pricing policies, corporate processes. Lead or collaborate in the preparation and/or review of proposals in conjunction with the Market and the Proposal Management Team. Engage with clients, seek for commercial opportunities and guide your team in delivering exceptional service to our clients. Cross-sell other disciplines with our clients to help win work for other parts of the organization. Build a high-performance team, with a focus on retention, talent development and performance management. Participate in recruitment including strategic hires, as appropriate based on workloads and Market requirements. Implement rules and procedures to ensure health & safety of employees and the environment as well as prevention of workplace incidents. Furthermore, in a context of continuous improvement, be proactive in identifying and improving health, safety & environment rules and procedures to prevent hazards related to your work. Work with Team Leads to ensure availability of key resources for stretch assignments, strategic proposals and projects, and key client/focal roles for career development opportunities. Be involved as project manager and/or senior technical support on projects or client portfolios. Participate to conferences and trade events representing and promoting AtkinsRéalis. Other duties as assigned/required.

About you

Bachelor's degree in mechanical or electrical engineering. Member of your professional Order, or eligible to become a member (additional jurisdictions across Canada is an asset). 10+ years of leadership experience with proven success in managing technical teams and business operations. Knowledge of English is required, and French is an asset. Dynamic leader with proven ability to manage and empower people in a team setting. Proven ability to achieve business development and client relationship development objectives. Ability to work under pressure in a constantly changing organizational context. Recognized for mobilizing leadership while ensuring a high level of effectiveness and efficiency. Solid communication skills and ability to influence.

Rewards & benefits

Explore the rewards and benefits that help you thrive – at every stage of your life and your career at AtkinsRéalis in Canada. Enjoy competitive compensation, employee recognition, and a brilliant range of flexible benefits you can tailor to your health, wellbeing, financial and lifestyle needs. Make the most of diverse opportunities for training and professional development to grow your skills and expertise. And take advantage of our hybrid working culture and generous time-off policies to balance a fulfilling career with your personal life. Be rewarded. Find out more.

About AtkinsRéalis

We're AtkinsRéalis, a world-class engineering services and nuclear organization. We connect people, data and technology to transform the world's infrastructure and energy systems. Together, with our industry partners and clients, and our global team of consultants, designers, engineers and project managers, we can change the world. We're committed to leading our clients across our various end markets to engineer a better future for our planet and its people. Find out more.

Additional information

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At AtkinsRéalis, we seek to hire individuals with diverse characteristics, backgrounds and perspectives. We strongly believe that world-class talent makes no distinctions based on gender, ethnic or national origin, sexual identity and orientation, age, religion or disability, but enriches itself through these differences. Created by the integration of long-standing organizations dating back to 1911, AtkinsRéalis is a world-class engineering services and nuclear company dedicated to engineering a better future for our planet and its people. We create sustainable solutions that connect people, data and technology to transform the world's infrastructure and energy systems. We deploy global capabilities locally to our clients and deliver unique end-to-end services across the whole life cycle of an asset including consulting, advisory & environmental services, intelligent networks & cybersecurity, design & engineering, procurement, project & construction management, operations & maintenance, decommissioning and capital. The breadth and depth of our capabilities are delivered to clients in strategic sectors such as Engineering Services, Nuclear and Capital. News and information are available at Atkinsrealis or follow us on LinkedIn.