Discipline Lead Electrical Facilities

Are you someone with strong leadership and technical capabilities Do you enjoy building relationships and working collaboratively in a team environment with both internal and external stakeholders Are you a thought leader a trusted advisor and a problem solver If you enjoy entrepreneurship and innovation this opportunity is for you! As someone with excellent communication skills and business acumen you will thrive in our fast-paced and agile environment.

Your Opportunity

Dillons Buildings Infrastructure Practice is seeking a Discipline Lead - Electrical Facilities to fill an existing vacancy within our multidisciplinary team of professionals. You will have the opportunity to work on new and exciting projects while providing clients with a fully integrated and superior customer experience.

At Dillon we operate as one team. The successful candidate can be based at our Halifax NS office.

We offer flexible work hours to help balance the competing demands of work and personal life.

To be successful in this role a candidate must demonstrate proficiency across four core pillars:

• Strategic Leadership & Reputation: The ability to shape the disciplines direction drive organic growth and elevate Dillons reputation both internally and externally.
• Technical Leadership & Innovation: The ability to maintain deep technical expertise in electrical facilities while driving digital transformation and called shots on incremental innovation.
• People & Team Development: A commitment to coaching Team Managers fostering a culture of inclusion and promoting knowledge sharing across disciplines.
• Delivery & Operational Excellence: Proven experience in meeting financial targets (Gross Margin Revenue) managing health and safety risks and championing standardization in deliverables.

Strategic Leadership & Reputation

• Shape and advance the disciplines strategic direction to elevate its reputation and influence both inside Dillon and within the broader industry.
• Identify and make sound business decisions regarding organic growth opportunities and build a discipline-specific sales pipeline to achieve year-over-year growth.
• Prioritize client engagement to align future skillsets with new services and maintain strong collaborative relationships with Project Managers Business Units and Practice Leads.
• Maintain a respected industry presence and recognition serving as a trusted advisor to both internal and external clients.
• Reinforce the connection between technical leadership and client value by promoting excellence in both internal design standards and external project delivery.

Technical Leadership & Innovation

• Deliver on incremental innovation utilizing a business case and success metrics to improve efficiency.
• Drive digital transformation and data-informed decision-making leveraging technology to enhance design quality within the discipline.
• Maintain deep technical expertise by staying current with industry trends emerging technologies and best practices.

People & Team Development

• Serve as a coach and mentor to Team Managers supporting their growth performance management and decision-making autonomy.
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement accountability ownership and innovation across the discipline.
• Promote teamwork and knowledge sharing among team members and across different disciplines to ensure coordinated communication.

Delivery & Operational Excellence

• Meet or exceed financial targets including Gross Labour Revenue and Adjusted Gross Margin while maintaining high-quality service.
• Champion discipline-wide standardization to ensure consistency in deliverables workflows and the overall client experience.

Proactively identify and manage health & safety risks and oversee quality control processes to mitigate operational risks.

• A degree in electrical engineering or an electrical engineering technologist diploma
• Licensed to practice as a professional engineer or registered as a certified engineering technologist in Nova Scotia or eligible to be licensed/registered within six months.
• A minimum of ten (10) years of professional experience preferably in the consulting industry

• Proven experience in strategic leadership organic business growth and building professional reputation within the industry.
• Proven success in project management and business development specifically leading technical teams through complex large-scale projects.
• Deep technical proficiency in a wide range of electrical systems including power distribution safety protocols and advanced system studies.
• Proven abilities in leading multidisciplinary projects and teams.
• Expertise in leading multidisciplinary projects and teams of technical professionals.
• Proven skills in public and agency consultation.
• In-depth understanding of business issues associated with consulting engineering and planning.
• Exceptional communication (verbal and written) skills are essential.

Why choose Dillon

We live our core values:

• Achievement: do the work to hit the target;
• Continuous Development: always learning; always adapting; always growing;
• Creativity: discover new possibilities;
• Courage: do the things that matter especially when its hard;
• Inclusiveness: enabling belonging to draw strength from our differences;
• Reliability: words result in actions that build trust.

In addition we offer:

• Employee share purchase plan

• • Dillon is 100% employee owned and share ownership is open to all employees.

• A competitive compensation package

• • Comprehensive health benefits
  • Generous retirement savings plan
  • Student loan repayment assistance with matching employer contributions

• Flexible work hours and hybrid working options

• • Dillon values its staff and the contributions that are made each day and understands that work arrangements can differ based on personal needs and business needs. We are taking a trust-based approach to offer a variety of flexible and hybrid work options to help balance the competing demands of work and personal life.

• Learning and Development opportunities

• • As a knowledge-based business we use a composite approach to development including coaching to build the how mentoring to share lessons advising to round out perspectives and co-creation of knowledge through internal learning opportunities.

• Focus on Innovation

• • The ability to anticipate examine and adopt new and innovative solutions is a crucial driver for the continual and progressive advancement of our business our culture people are empowered to reflect and question current practices and seek forward looking solutions to todays problems and tomorrows opportunities.

• Employee and Family Assistance program

• • A variety of EFAP tools and online resources to support well-being are available to all employees.

• Goodlife Fitness Corporate Membership

• Our employees can take advantage of reduced annual membership fees.
• Wellness Subsidy
• Our employees can take advantage of a wellness subsidy that can be put towards expenses for a variety of health and/or wellness related activities such as gym membership purchase of home fitness equipment yoga classes and dance classes.

About Dillon

Dillon is a proudly Canadian employee-owned professional consulting firm specializing in planning engineering environmental science and management. We partner with clients to provide committed collaborative and inventive solutions to complex multi-faceted projects. With over 25 offices and more than 1100 employees across Canada Dillon offers a wide range of services related to building and improving facilities and infrastructure protecting the environment and developing communities.

Now operating for over 75 years we continue to strive for excellence in everything we do. Dillon has been listed as one of Canadas Best Managed Companies for 19 years in a row and has the distinction of being a Platinum Club member in this program.

Health & Safety at Dillon

Prospective employees are expected to fully align with Dillons core commitment to Health & Safety. This includes active ongoing engagement with our Health & Safety processes and platform and the active ongoing identification and reporting of health and safety hazards.

Employment Equity Diversity & Inclusion at Dillon

Dillon is committed to employment equity and an inclusive diverse workplace where opportunities are based on skills and abilities. If you require accommodation during the interview process please let us know. We look forward to hearing from you.

Technology enablement and the use of AI at Dillon

We invest in modern technologies to enable continuous improvement across the organization. Please be advised that Dillon Consulting utilizes artificial intelligence (AI) assisted tools to support parts of our recruitment process to increase efficiency and fairness. While AI supports this process all hiring decisions are made by our human recruiting team. By applying you acknowledge and consent to this use.