Design Lead Primary - Electrical

LNT/DLP-E/1734890

• REN-Renewables IC
• Chennai
• Posted On21 Jul 2026
• End Date17 Jan 2027
• Required Experience8 - 14 years
  
  

Skills

Knowledge & Posting Location

Project Engineering Power Distribution Power Systems Electrical Engineering

Minimum Qualification

Bachelor of Engineering (BE)Bachelor of Technology (BTech)

Job Description

Objective: As Design Lead (Primary), the person shall be capable of reviewing & executing Primary Engineering Activities for AIR INSULATED SUBSTATIONS (AIS) / GAS INSULATED SUBSTATIONS (GIS) Projects covering multiple geographical domains. He must have good knowledge in Layout Engineering in Substation Projects. He shall facilitate the modellers in development of BIM 3D Model for Substations. In addition, she / he has to coordinate with other departments including Inter-departmental checks covering, Electrical, Civil/ Structural, MEP and others. The Design Lead (Primary) shall be required to provide support for the engineering activities covering the full cycle of works from pre-bid engineering to support during commissioning and warranty periods and to extend support to site team.

She / He shall lead a team of Design Engineers and Draughtspersons to manage the Engineering activities within budget, deliver on time and maintaining a high quality of engineering.

Key Responsibilities

• Timely Delivery of Engineering Drawings & Documents
• Ensure deliveries are aligned to Project Schedule
• Seek and obtain spatial requirements and details of cut-outs and openings from the Design Lead (Secondary) and incorporate into relevant Drawings
• Review primary drawings prepared by Design Engineers & Draughtspersons & checking of design & sizing calculations of primary engineering electrical equipment and obtaining approvals from the client
• Review of Vendor deliverables pertaining to Primary Engineering
• Capable of Multitasking and deliver multiple things on time
• Estimate and Plan man-hour requirements
• Review BOQ and submit to contracts team and providing technical clarifications
• Coordinate with multiple disciplines for ensuring inter-departmental checks
• Provide support & clarifications to the Site Execution team
• Check pre-award evaluation of vendor offers (with respect to technical specifications requirement of the Client) and forward the validation document to Supply Chain Management
• Inspect equipment from the finalized vendor after submission of validation document of the vendor
• Clarify issues with respect to the design & requirements of the client to the Site Execution Team
• Collect inputs for project details (plot details, feeder arrangements etc.) from client & Project Engineering Manager
• Coordinating with Operations team and informing Design specifications for obtaining approval
• Collect inputs for project details (General Arrangement Drawings) from Vendors
• Check deliverables such as Equipment layouts, Cable Routing Layout, Cable Tray Layout, Earthing Layout, lighting Layout, Lightning Protection Layout
• Provide support to secondary team for reviewing Vendor drawings
• Submit requirement of man-hours for undertaking & reviewing of design & drawings of the project