PHM recruits the electrical engineers who power buildings, industry, and the mission-critical facilities behind the AI build-out — power distribution, building electrical services, controls and instrumentation, and industrial electrical. Specialist, sector-fluent search on an exclusive, fee-on-hire basis.
The 2024 Canadian Electrical Code did not arrive everywhere at once. British Columbia adopted it in March 2025, Alberta in April, Ontario in May as its own edition with provincial amendments on top. So “knows the code” is not one answer — it means the edition and the province someone last worked under, which is not what a candidate hears when you ask.
An unfilled electrical seat pushes work onto the one person who can sign it. That is a single point of failure carrying your schedule, and they know their market value.
Our electrical engineering recruiters ask which province and which edition before anything else, then assess on what people have energised and commissioned, with compensation read from live searches rather than a survey.
Genuine depth across the electrical engineering disciplines — we understand the roles and the work they answer for, not just the titles. A sample of the work and the projects we recruit for:
Recruiting for utility-side transmission, distribution or substation work? That sits with our power and grid engineering team.
Levels from EITs and intermediate engineers through senior and principal electrical engineers, controls specialists, discipline leads, project and engineering managers, and directors.
Retained-level rigour, on an exclusive basis, for a fee paid on the hire — no upfront retainer and the delivery risk on us. We also work standard contingency where a role suits it. How we engage →
Because we don’t run volume, an exclusive electrical mandate gets our full bandwidth — and we’re driven to deliver in less time than industry norms.
Electrical building-services design for ICI, high-rise, and institutional projects — power, lighting, and low-voltage systems.
Controls, automation, instrumentation, and plant electrical for modern manufacturing and industrial operations.
Utility, renewable, and data-center electrical — power distribution and reliability where uptime is non-negotiable.
The specialties and levels are listed above. We recruit them for consultancies, owners, contractors and industrial employers across Canada and the USA.
Buildings and consulting (electrical building services), industrial and manufacturing (controls and automation), and power and mission-critical (utility, renewable, and data-center electrical).
We work exclusive contingency. Retained-level research and assessment, no money before a hire, and we carry the cost if the search does not produce one.
Yes. We provide real-time compensation insight for the specific role, region, and seniority you’re hiring for — so an offer is competitive without overpaying.
Across Canada and the United States. We’re headquartered in London, Ontario, Canada and work on-site where it counts and remote-fluent by design.
Often not. Many of the strongest electrical and controls roles are filled discreetly, through direct search — never posted, rarely described, and closed inside a small circle.
An advisory conversation about the electrical hire ahead of you — and where the right person is likely to come from. Not a commitment.