Electrical Manager (Engineering Specialist)

Lego Group; Richmond (VA); Hybrid; USD 104,000 - 156,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Family Care Leave

Life & Disability Insurance

Wellbeing programs

Colleague Discount

Bonus scheme

Hybrid work policy

Job summary

LEGO Group is seeking an Electrical Project Manager to lead electrical design and execution for large-scale expansion projects in Virginia and Monterrey, Mexico. You will coordinate between engineering, design, and construction teams to ensure safe, compliant project delivery in a global environment.

Responsibilities include overseeing design work, enforcing LEGO standards, and driving value engineering while managing supplier relationships and timelines across multiple sites.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering.
• Experience in electrical design and project management.
• Experience with large industrial expansion projects (greenfield/brownfield).
• Strong relationship management with general contractors and LEGO suppliers.
• Understanding of local and international electrical design standards.

Responsibilities

• Oversee design work and ensure compliance with LEGO standards.
• Review compliance matrices and provide milestone reviews.
• Manage weekly technical meetings with PMs, designers, and contractors.
• Oversee installations on site and coordinate layouts with factory standards.
• Ensure value engineering is considered throughout the project lifecycle.

Skills

Electrical design

Project management

Industrial expansion

Stakeholder management

Electrical standards

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering

Job description

Job Description

Imagine leading the electrical design and execution for large-scale industrial expansion projects. As an Electrical Manager, you'll drive innovation and ensure compliance with industry standards in a dynamic, global environment.

As our Electrical Project Manager, you'll oversee electrical design and implementation within the Global Workplace Projects organization, supporting expansion efforts in manufacturing sites based in Virginia and Monterrey, Mexico. You'll coordinate activities between engineering, design, and construction teams, ensuring safe, efficient, and compliant project execution. Your role will involve managing timelines, supplier relationships, and ensuring adherence to approved designs, LEGO standards, and international codes.

Leadership Responsibilities

• Manage weekly technical meetings with PMs, designers, and general contractors.
• Supervise design quality and resource utilization, escalating issues as needed.
• Ensure integration of BMS, IT, and Sustainability requirements into electrical design.

Functional Responsibilities

• Oversee design work, ensuring compliance with LEGO standards and risk management guidelines.
• Mandate to stop any activity where a "safety first" mindset is not applied.
• Review compliance matrices and provide formal reviews during milestone assessments.
• Propose, review, and approve manufacturers in specifications.
• Ensure value engineering is considered throughout the project lifecycle.
• Oversee quality of installations on site and coordinate technical layouts with factory standards.

Stakeholder Management

• Act as a technical liaison with key LEGO stakeholders (MD&I, IT, Security, WS&O).
• Involve stakeholders for alignment and decisions needed for engineering delivery.

Communication

• Ensure learnings and inputs from projects flow back to the department and standard owner.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering.
• Experience in electrical design and project management.
• Experience with large industrial expansion projects, including greenfield and brownfield.
• Strong relationship management with general contractors and our LEGO suppliers.
• Understanding of local and international electrical design standards.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with high voltage (HV), medium voltage (MV), and low voltage (LV) distribution systems.
• Familiarity with power systems, monitoring systems, and industrial manufacturing.
• Experience in global construction and commissioning processes.
• Knowledge of international codes/standards (IEC, NFPA, IEEE, NEC, ISO).

What You'll Build

You’ll lead efforts to ensure electrical designs meet LEGO standards, guide teams on design components, and improve project quality through data-driven recommendations. You’ll support the standardization of design processes and documentation, partner with stakeholders across the value chain, and expand innovative design strategies globally.

Life on the Team

You’ll work with a team of specialists who collaborate closely across functions, taking ownership of your work and approaching challenges with a practical mindset. You’ll thrive by building strong relationships, supporting others’ learning, and contributing to shared goals.

What Success Looks Like

Success means consistently delivering stable electrical design performance while supporting continuous improvement initiatives. You’ll work closely with colleagues and partners across the value chain to strengthen capabilities, improve processes, and create lasting impact.

Additional Information

• This position requires international travel
• Willingness to relocate globally to support future LEGO growth.

Compensation

The salary for this position has a range of $104,327.00 - $156,491.00 based on anticipated responsibilities, market benchmarks, and organizational constraints. The LEGO Group carefully considers a wide range of compensation factors, including but not limited to prior experience, skills, expertise, location, internal equity, and other considerations permitted by law. The comprehensive remuneration details, inclusive of benefits, will be communicated upon finalisation of the employment offer.

What’s in it for you?

Here are some of what to expect:

• FamilyCareLeave –We offer enhanced paid leave options for those important times.
• Insurances –All colleagues are covered by our life and disability insurance which provides protection and peace of mind.
• Wellbeing– We want you to be your best self, so you’ll have access to the Headspace App and lots of wellbeing initiatives and programs run by local teams where you are based
• ColleagueDiscount– We know you'll love to build so from day 1 you will qualify for our generous colleague discount.
• Bonus– We do our best work to succeed together. When goals are reached and if eligible, you'll be rewarded through our bonus scheme
• Your workplace –When you join the team you'll be assigned a primary workplace location i.e. one of our Offices, stores or factories. Our hybrid work policy means an average of 3 days per week in the office. The hiring team will discuss the policy and role eligibility with you during the recruitment process.

We strive to create a diverse, dynamic and inclusive culture of play at the LEGO Group, where everyone feels safe, valued and they belong.

The LEGO Group is highly committed to equal employment opportunity and equal pay and seeks to encourage applicants from all backgrounds (eg. sex, gender identity or expression, race/ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, disability, age, religion and Veteran status) to apply for roles in our team.

We support our employees in being there for the moments that matter in life and celebrate families of all kinds, the loved ones that make us who we are. Being part of the LEGO Group also means taking part in our annual Play Day, playing a part in building a sustainable future and continuing our mission to “inspire and develop the builders of tomorrow.”

The LEGO Group is fully committed to Children’s Rights and Child Wellbeing across the globe. Candidates offered positions with high engagement with children are required to take part in Child Safeguarding Background Screening, as a condition of the offer.

Thank you for sharing our global commitment to Children’s Rights.

We conduct drug screening as a part of our drug free workplace policy and in support of our commitment to the health and safety of our employees.

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