Electrical Engineering Lead, Capital Projects

Responsibilities

• Lead electrical engineering activities for capital projects through FEL-2, FEL-3, FEL-4 and execution planning.
• Serve as the electrical engineering lead within Cyclic's owner's team, ensuring internal and external engineering deliverables meet project requirements, technical standards, and stage-gate expectations.
• Participate in leading the Electrical Engineering project engineering team through project budget development, scope of work, WBS, schedule, commissioning plan, and estimating activities
• Manage and review the work of external engineering consultants, EPCM partners, power system specialists, and equipment vendors for electrical scope.
• Develop and maintain electrical design criteria, technical specifications, discipline standards, and required engineering deliverables to support project development and execution.
• Provide technical leadership for electrical systems including incoming utility connections, substations, transformers, switchgear, motor control centers, standby and emergency power systems, UPS systems, cable routing, grounding, lightning protection, plant lighting, and heat tracing.
• Review and approve discip

Benefits

Additional Information

Cyclic Materials™ is building a resilient circular supply chain for rare earth elements and other critical materials. Through our proprietary MagCycle℠ and REEPure℠ processes, we recover rare earths from end-of-life products and transform them into high purity materials used in the production of permanent magnets. These materials are critical to the modern economy, including the production of electric vehicles, electronics, AI infrastructure, wind turbines, defense, and advanced manufacturing technologies. Founded in 2021, Cyclic Materials has rapidly progressed from technology development to commercialization. We currently operate facilities in Ontario and Arizona, with a new expansion underway in South Carolina. Backed by US$75 million in Series C financing led by T. Rowe Price, alongside strategic investors including Microsoft, Amazon, Hitachi Ventures, BMW i Ventures, Jaguar Land Rover's InMotion fund, Energy Impact Partners, ArcTern Ventures, and Fifth Wall, we are scaling to meet growing global demand for a secure and sustainable rare earth supply. We have established commercial partnerships with global industry leaders such as Solvay, Vattenfall, Lime, and VACUUMSCHMELZE, enabling the deployment of recycled rare earth materials into real world supply chains. In 2025, Cyclic Materials was named one of the Top 10 Climate Tech Companies to Watch by MIT Technology Review. We are growing quickly and building the industrial backbone required for a circular rare earth economy. Joining Cyclic Materials means working on complex and exciting challenges at scale, alongside a team committed to executing and delivering measurable impact. If you are motivated by building critical infrastructure and advancing the circular economy, join us and help accelerate the growth of rare earth recycling. Position Overview The Electrical Engineering Lead operates within an Owner's Team model as the internal Subject Matter Expert (SME), responsible for defining electrical engineering requirements and overseeing external design partners. This role focuses on reviewing and validating externally developed designs to ensure they are fit for purpose, meet specifications, and align with sound engineering principles, while liaising with and holding external teams accountable for quality and performance. The Lead provides final technical review and sign-off, bringing deep expertise and experience to the role. This role is a key member of the owner's engineering team and is accountable for specifying design requirements to the external engineering design teams. This senior candidate will ensure that the electrical design solutions are safe, reliable, maintainable, and aligned with project objectives, site conditions, and long-term operational requirements, amongst other things. The Electrical Engineering Lead will work closely with internal project engineers, logistics and procurement professionals, and operations. The candidate will also work with external engineering, EPCM, and specialist design partners to develop fit-for-purpose electrical designs that support project advancement through FEL-2, FEL-3, and FEL-4 detailed engineering, construction, commissioning, and handover. The successful candidate will provide technical leadership across power distribution, substations, MCCs, switchgear, transformers, grounding and lightning protection, backup power systems, plant lighting, heat tracing, electrical equipment packages, and utility interfaces. This role also supports engineering governance, design reviews, risk management, constructability, operability, and value improvement initiatives. This may also include overseeing and/or participating in all HAZOPS and subject matter regulatory reviews. This is a full-time, hybrid (4 days in office, 1 day remote) role based in Toronto.

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