Associate Principal | Electrical Engineering

Joining Arup

Arup’s purpose, shared values, and collaborative approach has set us apart for over 80 years, guiding how we shape a better world.

We are looking for an Electrical Engineering Leader to join our Toronto office. You would be joining our established team delivering complex and large-scale projects across a range of sectors, with a particular focus on healthcare facilities, including hospitals, ambulatory care centers, and specialized medical environments, as well as Rail, Data Centers, Higher Education, and Laboratories. This leadership role will be instrumental in expanding our healthcare portfolio, strengthening relationships with healthcare clients and stakeholders, and driving growth across both existing and emerging markets through strategic business development and technical excellence.

This job posting represents an active vacancy within our organization and is open for immediate recruitment.

The opportunity

• Provide technical leadership and oversight for complex electrical engineering projects, ensuring design excellence, innovation, quality, and compliance with applicable codes, standards, and client requirements.
• Act as Project Manager or Project Director on major multidisciplinary projects, overseeing scope, schedule, budget, resources, risk management, and overall project performance.
• Lead the development and execution of business development strategies to secure new projects, expand existing client relationships, and diversify services across key sectors including Healthcare, Rail, Data Centers, Higher Education, Laboratories, and Commercial Developments.
• Develop and maintain strong relationships with clients, industry partners, contractors, architects, and key stakeholders, serving as a trusted advisor throughout project lifecycles.
• Lead project pursuits, including client engagement, proposal development, fee negotiations, project planning, and interview presentations.
• Guide electrical engineering teams in the delivery of power distribution systems, emergency power systems, lighting, controls, grounding, communications, and other building systems for complex facilities.
• Collaborate with other discipline leaders to identify opportunities for integrated design solutions and enhanced client value.
• Support recruitment, workforce planning, and succession planning initiatives to build and sustain a high-performing electrical engineering team.
• Provide coaching, mentoring, and performance development for current and future team members, fostering technical excellence, leadership growth, and professional development.
• Monitor industry trends, emerging technologies, sustainability initiatives, and market opportunities to support strategic growth and innovation.
• Contribute to the development and implementation of the Electrical Engineering business strategy, including revenue growth, resource planning, and operational performance.
  
  

At Arup, you belong to an extraordinary collective – in which we encourage individuality to thrive. Our strength comes from how we respect, share and connect our diverse experiences, perspectives and ideas.

You will have the opportunity to do socially useful work that has meaning – to Arup, to your career, to our members and to the clients and communities we serve.

Is this role right for you?

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical or architectural engineering
• Atleast 15 years’ experience designing electrical systems for a range of industrial, commercial, educational, healthcare, laboratories, and/or transit project experience
• P.Eng is required
• Experience leading multi-disciplinary projects as a project manager or director
• Experience leading and developing teams
• Established client network in the Canada region
• Experience with developing proposals and attending pitch meetings with clients to secure projects
  
  

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What We Offer You

At Arup, we care about each member’s success, so we can grow together. Guided by our values, we provide an attractive total reward package that recognizes the contribution of each of our members to our shared success. As well as competitive, fair and equitable pay, we offer a career in which all of our members can belong, grow and thrive – through benefits that support health and wellbeing, a wide range of learning opportunities and many possibilities to have an impact through the work they do.

We are owned in trust on behalf of our members, giving us the freedom, with personal responsibility, to set our own direction and choose work that aligns with our purpose and adds to Arup’s legacy. Our members collaborate on ambitious projects to deliver remarkable outcomes for our clients and communities. Profit Share is a key part of our reward, enabling members to share in the results of our collective efforts.

Benefits at Work - At Arup, we have a comprehensive and valuable benefits program that works for our employees and their families. These are 100% paid for by Arup except for optional life insurance. These benefits provide health and welfare security for you as well as paid time off for rest and renewal. Our Global Profit Share Plan (paid bi-annually) provides an opportunity for you to share in the success of the Firm. As a valued employee of Arup, you can also choose to participate in our GRRSP 5% company match to help you save for your future.

Flexible Working - We believe that flexible arrangements create a more inclusive way of working that supports our diversity and the wellbeing of our people. Options for alternative schedules and the ability to work outside of the office for a portion of your workweek are available.

Toronto Hiring Range - The good faith base salary hiring range for this job if performed in Toronto is $180,000 to $250,000 per year. This range is commensurate with experience, educational background, and skill level. Benefits are not included in the base salary. Please note hiring ranges for candidates performing work outside of Toronto will differ.

Different people, shared values

Arup is an equal opportunity employer that actively promotes and nurtures a diverse and inclusive workforce. We welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds, regardless of age (within legal limits), gender identity or expression, marital status, disability, neurotype or mental health, race or ethnicity, faith or belief, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background, and whether you’re pregnant or on family leave. We are an open environment that embraces diverse experiences, perspectives, and ideas – this drives our excellence.

Guided by our values and alignment with the UN Sustainable Development Goals, we create and contribute to equitable spaces and systems, while cultivating a sense of belonging for all. Our internal employee networks support our inclusive culture: from race, ethnicity and cross-cultural working to gender equity and LGBTQ+ and disability inclusion – we aim to create a space for you to express yourself and make a positive difference. Discover more about life at Arup at www.arup.com/careers/your-life-at-arup .

Our Toronto office is located on ceded and unceded lands of many nations including the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishinabewaki, and the Haudenosaunee (hoe-dee-no-SHOW-nee). We acknowledge this land and its people to build a shared understanding of how our collective past brings us to where we are today. Through our ever-developing commitments, we strive to strengthen our relationships with this land, its people, and its treaties to shape a better, more inclusive world.

Our Application Process

We will be reviewing our candidates for this position on a rolling basis. Once you have applied you will be evaluated and potentially moved on to the next round, at which point a member of the talent resourcing team will reach out to you directly.

Arup is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, spouse of a protected veteran, or disability.

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