Vice President, Electrical

The Vice President of Electrical owns the commercial success, strategic growth, and financial performance of the Electrical division across Ontario and potential expansion markets. This leader is accountable for P&L performance, revenue growth, market positioning, and enterprise integration.

Why This Role Matters to Modern Niagara

The Vice President of Electrical is key to Modern Niagara’s ability to grow its Electrical business profitably, strengthen client relationships, and expand into new markets. By aligning Electrical with Mechanical and Construction teams, this leader helps deliver integrated solutions that meet clients’ needs and create opportunities across the business. This role also builds the leadership and operational capacity needed to support long-term growth while maintaining a safety-first culture.

Key Impact / Purpose

• Drive profitable growth of the Electrical division through strategic market expansion, strong client relationships, and disciplined financial leadership.
• Strengthen Modern Niagara’s integrated offering by aligning Electrical, Mechanical, and Construction teams to pursue and deliver client solutions.
• Build the leadership, talent, and operational capacity needed to sustain long-term growth while championing a safety-first culture.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Strategic Growth & Market Expansion

• Develop and execute a 3–5 year Electrical growth strategy aligned with corporate objectives.
• Identify priority verticals.
• Lead geographic expansion nationally.
• Evaluate partnerships, joint ventures, and acquisition opportunities.

Business Development & Client Leadership

• Own revenue growth targets and pipeline development.
• Develop C-suite and senior client relationships with developers, GCs, municipalities, and institutional clients.
• Lead major pursuits and positioning strategies for complex projects.
• Collaborate inter-departmentally to drive integrated design-build opportunities.
• Increase cross-selling across service lines.

P&L and Financial Leadership

• Full P&L ownership for the Electrical division.
• Drive margin performance and cost discipline.
• Oversee forecasting, backlog management, and pricing strategy.
• Improve bid-to-win ratios and ensure disciplined project selection.
• Lead financial reviews with executive leadership.

Organizational Leadership

• Provide direction and performance oversight to the Senior Leaders
• Scale the Electrical division (talent acquisition, succession planning, leadership bench).
• Align operational capacity with growth strategy.
• Champion a high-performance, safety-first culture.

Enterprise Alignment

• Participate in corporate strategic planning.
• Support capital planning and resource allocation decisions.
• Ensure integrated execution with Mechanical and Construction teams.

Must haves:

• 12+ years in electrical contracting, engineering, or construction.
• 5–10 years in senior leadership with P&L accountability.
• Proven track record growing revenue in the construction market.
• Strong relationships within ICI
• Financial fluency (WIP reporting, margin analysis, forecasting).
• Eng. or trade background.

Competitive total compensation package, commensurate with experience

Modern Niagara offers a competitive total compensation package including:

• Defined Contribution Pension Plan with a generous employer contribution

• Flexible Health and Dental benefits with tiered options to meet the needs of you and your family

• An annual health spending account to support your overall wellness

• 24/7 confidential support through our Employee and Family Assistance Program with access to comprehensive resources and professional services

• A competitive vacation package with additional vacation granted throughout your tenure with the organization.

• Employer Paid Parental Leave Top Up

• Annual Community Day dedicated to volunteering and giving back to the communities where we live and work

• Corporate Discounts through various vendors across Canada for programs such as fitness, mobile phones, travel, home and auto insurance and many others

Here at Modern Niagara, because we know our people are the best in the industry, we pride ourselves on providing a total compensation package that rewards employees for their hard work and supports employees and their families in their overall wellbeing.

About Modern Niagara

Who We Are

Modern Niagara helps building owners, managers, and general contractors meet the mechanical, and electrical needs of their buildings across Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Toronto, Southwestern Ontario, and Ottawa. We are committed to having a positive and meaningful impact on Canada’s infrastructure — and on the communities where we live, learn, work, and heal. We build for life.

Our Culture & Values

We value passion, initiative, determination, professionalism, and teamwork. Health and safety are embedded in everything we do, and our award-winning safety culture consistently performs well above industry standards.

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Modern Niagara

We are committed to building a diverse, equitable, and inclusive organization where everyone has access to opportunity, feels a sense of belonging, and can thrive. We actively work to remove barriers faced by members of equity-seeking groups (including women, Indigenous, Black, racialized, 2SLGBTQIA+ people, people with disabilities, and newcomers to Canada) in the construction industry. We encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds and lived experiences and are committed to a barrier-free hiring process. If you require accommodation at any stage of the recruitment process, please contact us at [email protected] so we can make appropriate arrangements.

We appreciate every applicant’s interest in joining Modern Niagara. Only those selected for an interview will be contacted.