Electrical Engineering Manager, Cary, NC

• 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 clearly with clients, utilities, and internal teams regarding priorities, risks, decisions, and status, especially when tradeoffs or course correction are needed.
• Personally perform electrical engineering design and analysis as a hands-on, contributing member of the team, and serve as the Professional Engineer of record who seals and stamps deliverables.
• Carry an active, billable project workload alongside management responsibilities, balancing personal production with the demands of leading a team.
• Champion safety, quality, and continuous improvement across the electrical team.

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or a related technical field; equivalent relevant experience may also be considered.
• Strong experience in electrical engineering for industrial or manufacturing facilities, including power distribution, lighting, grounding, and power system studies (short circuit, coordination, and arc flash).
• Active Professional Engineer (PE) license - required, as this role serves as the Professional Engineer of record and personally stamps electrical deliverables.
• Leadership experience overseeing people, work assignments, and team performance - or demonstrated readiness to step into people leadership through project leadership, mentoring, and coordinating work in a multi-project environment.
• Experience leading or materially contributing to proposals, estimates, staffing plans, and execution planning.
• Experience working with multi-discipline project teams and coordinating with Project Managers, clients, utilities, vendors, and other stakeholders.
• Strong ability to prioritize resources, manage competing demands, and make sound decisions with incomplete information.
• Strong written and verbal communication, including the ability to communicate effectively with both technical teams and client decision makers.
• Working knowledge of applicable electrical codes and standards (NEC, NFPA 70E, and IEEE).

• Experience in food and beverage, life sciences, pharmaceutical, parcel, or other industrial manufacturing environments.
• Project Management Professional (PMP) or similar relevant credentials.
• Experience with power system analysis software (e.g., SKM, ETAP, or EasyPower) and CAD-based design environments (e.g., AutoCAD or Revit).
• Established industry relationships and a demonstrated ability to build client trust, support repeat business, and contribute to growth are strongly preferred.
• Experience developing team standards, department processes, and quality review practices.
• Experience mentoring engineers into broader project leadership and client-facing responsibilities, including towards PE licensure.

• Acts with integrity, sound judgment, and professionalism.
• Owns outcomes, follows through, and creates clarity when priorities or conditions change.
• Brings a calm, solution-oriented mindset to complex delivery and people challenges.
• Leads in a way that helps the broader team succeed, not just the individual project.
• Seeks to understand first, especially when assessing project risk, team issues, and client concerns.
• Anticipates problems early and addresses them before they affect scope, schedule, budget, or quality.
• Demonstrates a high degree of self-motivation and performs in a highly independent manner with minimal supervision.

• Office, plant, or client site environment*
• Ability to perform occasional field and client-site work and maintain a valid driver's license.
• Ability to sit and work at computer for extended periods of time
• Ability to walk up numerous flights of stairs or ladders multiple times a day and/or work in tight spaces in extreme conditions
• May work near moving mechanical parts and equipment*
• Office, commercial and/or industrial setting with the potential of exposure to fumes or airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals*
• Ability to lift and/or move up to 50 lbs.*
• Periodic weekend, holiday or evening work as needed
• Travel required

*EAD will provide training, administrative/engineering controls, and personal protective equipment as necessary.

We strongly believe that diversity of experience, perspectives, and background will lead to a better workplace for our employees and a better product for our customers.

EAD is an Equal Opportunity Employer

Duties, responsibilities and activities may change, or new ones may be assigned at any time with or without notice.