Electrical Engineering Manager, Kalamazoo, MI

Join EAD to help solve complex electrical engineering challenges in industrial facilities.

EAD supports projects across industrial manufacturing facilities, including food processing, pharmaceutical manufacturing, and parcel handling environments. This role offers the opportunity to lead an electrical engineering team across projects of varying size and complexity in a fast-paced, multi-discipline, and practical engineering setting.

The Electrical Engineering Manager leads the electrical engineering team to deliver high-quality work on scope, on time, and on budget while building a strong, healthy, and capable team. This role is responsible for coordinating schedules and resources, guiding proposal and estimate development, mentoring team members, and ensuring electrical engineering work meets applicable codes, stamping requirements, EAD standards, and client expectations. The Electrical Engineering Manager carries an active engineering workload - personally producing, reviewing, and stamping electrical deliverables as the Professional Engineer of record - while also leading the team, planning work, managing risk, developing people, and improving team performance.

Success requires both strong hands‑on electrical engineering and sound leadership judgment.

In this role, success means:

• Delivering electrical engineering work on scope, on time, on budget, and at the expected quality level.
• Personally producing and stamping high-quality electrical deliverables while leading the team - a true working manager.
• Planning and balancing team workloads so the right people are on the right work at the right time.
• Leading strong proposals and estimates with clear scope, realistic assumptions, and early identification of execution risk.
• Strengthening client relationships and contributing to follow‑on opportunities that support a healthy pipeline of electrical work.
• Growing and mentoring the electrical team so capability, accountability, and engagement increase over time.
• Strengthening quality, code compliance, and continuous improvement across electrical engineering practices, including properly stamped deliverables.
• Building trust with Project Managers, clients, and internal partners through proactive communication and dependable execution.

• Lead the electrical engineering team by setting priorities, assigning resources, and coordinating work to meet scope, schedule, budget, and quality expectations.
• Build and maintain strong client relationships, identify follow‑on opportunities, and partner with Business Development, Project Managers, and other leaders to support continued growth of the electrical team.
• Balance workloads across engineers and designers to maximize productivity, support healthy utilization, and avoid burnout or idle time.
• Lead the electrical portion of proposals and estimates, including scope definition, staffing assumptions, schedule input, hours forecasting, and risk identification.
• See around corners on proposals, estimates, staffing, and project execution by identifying likely risks, gaps, dependencies, and delivery challenges before they create problems.
• Guide and review electrical engineering work - including power distribution, one‑lines, load, short‑circuit, coordination, and arc‑flash studies, lighting, grounding, and construction documents - to ensure sound technical judgment, practical execution, and compliance with applicable codes and EAD standards.
• Ensure engineering deliverables are properly reviewed and PE‑stamped where required, and that professional engineering responsibilities are met.
• Partner with Project Managers and other discipline leaders to align electrical scope, staffing, priorities, and client expectations across projects.
• Mentor, coach, and develop electrical engineers and designers through regular feedback, technical guidance, and career development support, including progress toward PE licensure.
• Support hiring, onboarding, performance management, and succession planning for the electrical team.
• Build and maintain department processes, tools, and standards that improve quality, predictability, efficiency, and consistency.
• Communicate…