Electrical Engineer - Traffic Signal
About the role
Are you ambitious and looking to make the right move in your career? Now is the perfect time to join Egis. Egis is experiencing substantial growth in North America, now made up of over 1,000 engineers, architects and planners across Canada and the USA. This strategic move underscores our commitment to investing in North America, propelling our expansion to new heights.
Job Description
The Electrical Engineer – Traffic Signal Design is a technical role supporting multidisciplinary infrastructure project teams in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The position focuses on the planning, design, and delivery of electrical systems for urban transportation infrastructure, with a primary concentration on traffic signal installations and associated roadway systems.
The role contributes throughout preliminary design, detailed design, regulatory review, construction support, and project closeout activities. Responsibilities include developing electrical design packages, coordinating with civil and transportation disciplines, supporting municipal stakeholder engagement, and ensuring compliance with applicable Canadian codes, standards, and contract requirements. Work is performed within a collaborative infrastructure delivery environment involving public-sector transportation projects.
The ideal candidate possesses 5–10+ years of progressive electrical engineering experience, including direct exposure to traffic signal design, transportation infrastructure, and technical leadership responsibilities involving design oversight, quality assurance, and mentorship of junior engineering staff.
Key Responsibilities
Prepare and review electrical design packages for traffic signal and transportation infrastructure projects. Develop technical documentation, including specifications, calculations, reports, and design deliverables in accordance with applicable standards. Perform multidisciplinary coordination with civil, transportation, and municipal stakeholders to support integrated project delivery. Conduct design reviews to verify compliance with regulatory requirements, project criteria, and engineering standards. Provide technical leadership and mentorship to junior engineering staff throughout project execution. Support quality assurance and quality control activities related to electrical engineering deliverables. Participate in stakeholder coordination meetings and provide engineering recommendations during project discussions. Contribute to the development and maintenance of engineering standards, templates, and departmental best practices. Provide construction support services, including responding to technical inquiries and reviewing field-related design issues. Assist with regulatory compliance activities and technical submissions associated with transportation infrastructure projects.
Qualifications
Required
Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from an accredited institution. Professional Engineer (P.Eng.) designation in good standing with a Canadian engineering regulator. 5 to10 years of progressive electrical engineering experience. Minimum 3 years of direct traffic signal design experience. Strong knowledge of the Canadian Electrical Code (CEC). Experience applying applicable transportation standards, including OTM Book 12, OPSD, and OPSS. Proficiency with AutoCAD and AutoCAD Civil 3D. Experience delivering electrical systems for transportation or municipal infrastructure projects. Strong communication, technical reporting, stakeholder coordination, and team collaboration skills. Demonstrated ability to provide technical guidance and mentorship within engineering teams.
Assets
Experience supporting municipal or public-sector transportation infrastructure programs. Exposure to construction-phase engineering support and field coordination activities. Experience participating in quality management or continuous improvement initiatives. Familiarity with sustainable infrastructure and energy-efficient electrical design approaches. Experience working within multidisciplinary engineering consulting environments.
Additional Information
Egis Canada is an equal opportunities employer offering a competitive salary and benefits to those with the skills suited to the needs of our clients. The salary range advertised may exceed the range based on several factors, including relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, performance, and business or organizational needs.
We welcome and encourage applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available upon request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.
This role is eligible for a referral bonus in line with the Referral Program. If you have been referred, please provide the name of the employee who has referred you at the time of your application.
At Egis, we embrace innovation to tackle challenges and utilize AI in our recruitment process under stringent ethics and compliance policies and in alignment with our values of being a Responsible Company, a People First Company and a Creative Company. Committed to diversity, growth and collaboration, we may leverage AI to support the recruitment process.
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About Egis in Canada
As one of the premier engineering firms in North America, Egis provides a full range of consulting engineering services and technical solutions that encompasses every stage of your project.
With a heritage stretching back decades under the brand, Egis, formerly known as McIntosh Perry has grown to become a national, multi-disciplinary engineering firm that offers the highest level of client service to a wide range of private and public sector clients, including developers, REITs, building portfolio owners, property managers, government agencies, condominium corporations, architects, oil and gas providers, and contractors. Guided by our commitment to deliver successful, high-quality projects, our experience helps find an innovative solution to any challenge, regardless of the project size.
We are a customer-centric company that is creating a market-leading engineering firm by focusing on its people.
Our people are our greatest strength. It’s their experience and expertise that our clients have come to rely on, and it’s the relationships that our people form with clients that have sustained us and helped us become the company we are today. To help us achieve our goal to be the employer of choice, we’ve created a dynamic, performance-driven, client-focused culture that fosters communication and collaboration.
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Electrical Engineer - Traffic Signal
About the role
Are you ambitious and looking to make the right move in your career? Now is the perfect time to join Egis. Egis is experiencing substantial growth in North America, now made up of over 1,000 engineers, architects and planners across Canada and the USA. This strategic move underscores our commitment to investing in North America, propelling our expansion to new heights.
Job Description
The Electrical Engineer – Traffic Signal Design is a technical role supporting multidisciplinary infrastructure project teams in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The position focuses on the planning, design, and delivery of electrical systems for urban transportation infrastructure, with a primary concentration on traffic signal installations and associated roadway systems.
The role contributes throughout preliminary design, detailed design, regulatory review, construction support, and project closeout activities. Responsibilities include developing electrical design packages, coordinating with civil and transportation disciplines, supporting municipal stakeholder engagement, and ensuring compliance with applicable Canadian codes, standards, and contract requirements. Work is performed within a collaborative infrastructure delivery environment involving public-sector transportation projects.
The ideal candidate possesses 5–10+ years of progressive electrical engineering experience, including direct exposure to traffic signal design, transportation infrastructure, and technical leadership responsibilities involving design oversight, quality assurance, and mentorship of junior engineering staff.
Key Responsibilities
Prepare and review electrical design packages for traffic signal and transportation infrastructure projects. Develop technical documentation, including specifications, calculations, reports, and design deliverables in accordance with applicable standards. Perform multidisciplinary coordination with civil, transportation, and municipal stakeholders to support integrated project delivery. Conduct design reviews to verify compliance with regulatory requirements, project criteria, and engineering standards. Provide technical leadership and mentorship to junior engineering staff throughout project execution. Support quality assurance and quality control activities related to electrical engineering deliverables. Participate in stakeholder coordination meetings and provide engineering recommendations during project discussions. Contribute to the development and maintenance of engineering standards, templates, and departmental best practices. Provide construction support services, including responding to technical inquiries and reviewing field-related design issues. Assist with regulatory compliance activities and technical submissions associated with transportation infrastructure projects.
Qualifications
Required
Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from an accredited institution. Professional Engineer (P.Eng.) designation in good standing with a Canadian engineering regulator. 5 to10 years of progressive electrical engineering experience. Minimum 3 years of direct traffic signal design experience. Strong knowledge of the Canadian Electrical Code (CEC). Experience applying applicable transportation standards, including OTM Book 12, OPSD, and OPSS. Proficiency with AutoCAD and AutoCAD Civil 3D. Experience delivering electrical systems for transportation or municipal infrastructure projects. Strong communication, technical reporting, stakeholder coordination, and team collaboration skills. Demonstrated ability to provide technical guidance and mentorship within engineering teams.
Assets
Experience supporting municipal or public-sector transportation infrastructure programs. Exposure to construction-phase engineering support and field coordination activities. Experience participating in quality management or continuous improvement initiatives. Familiarity with sustainable infrastructure and energy-efficient electrical design approaches. Experience working within multidisciplinary engineering consulting environments.
Additional Information
Egis Canada is an equal opportunities employer offering a competitive salary and benefits to those with the skills suited to the needs of our clients. The salary range advertised may exceed the range based on several factors, including relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, performance, and business or organizational needs.
We welcome and encourage applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available upon request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.
This role is eligible for a referral bonus in line with the Referral Program. If you have been referred, please provide the name of the employee who has referred you at the time of your application.
At Egis, we embrace innovation to tackle challenges and utilize AI in our recruitment process under stringent ethics and compliance policies and in alignment with our values of being a Responsible Company, a People First Company and a Creative Company. Committed to diversity, growth and collaboration, we may leverage AI to support the recruitment process.
Not the right fit? Search for Electrical Engineer jobs in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
About Egis in Canada
As one of the premier engineering firms in North America, Egis provides a full range of consulting engineering services and technical solutions that encompasses every stage of your project.
With a heritage stretching back decades under the brand, Egis, formerly known as McIntosh Perry has grown to become a national, multi-disciplinary engineering firm that offers the highest level of client service to a wide range of private and public sector clients, including developers, REITs, building portfolio owners, property managers, government agencies, condominium corporations, architects, oil and gas providers, and contractors. Guided by our commitment to deliver successful, high-quality projects, our experience helps find an innovative solution to any challenge, regardless of the project size.
We are a customer-centric company that is creating a market-leading engineering firm by focusing on its people.
Our people are our greatest strength. It’s their experience and expertise that our clients have come to rely on, and it’s the relationships that our people form with clients that have sustained us and helped us become the company we are today. To help us achieve our goal to be the employer of choice, we’ve created a dynamic, performance-driven, client-focused culture that fosters communication and collaboration.