Primary Engineering Manager

Job Description Summary

The Primary Engineering Manager – Electrical Component will play a key role in supporting the sales and business development by providing technical expertise in the design of electrification solutions for the EHV/HV Substations. This individual will be responsible for system design, material selection, quantity estimation, various engineering activities associated for a project and customer technical consultations. The candidate will also ensure that the proposed solutions meet customer needs while adhering to industry standards, safety regulations, quality requirements and cost-efficiency objectives.

The candidate shall execute with association of workgroups, where applicable, in order to meet assigned objectives. In this role, the candidate will work within defined parameters to make decisions, apply concepts to issues of moderate complexity, and resolve issues through immediate action or short-term planning.

The candidate ensures leadership, skills development and motivation of the teams, manages engineering workload plan of the region, allocates keys resources on the projects, defines with Operations make or buy strategy for engineering activities. Candidate aligns processes and tools spanning ITO and OTR phases with Project Engineering function.

The candidate will work with GSI Global Engineering Centre (GSI GEC) to coordinate with the GSI Regions / Business Lines / as per Project requirement.

Job Description

Specific Role Requirements:

• HV (Primary) designs for 132 kV and above GIS/AIS Substation Engineering for Grid Interconnected Projects
• Preparation of basic Single Line Diagram, Layout Plan & Section of Overall plant, Equipment control room, Earthing Layout, DSLP Layout, Trench Layout etc
• Earthing design, Lightning design, Cable Sizing, Battery Sizing, Illumination system design, Sag Tension calculation, Short Circuit Force and Bus- bar Sizing as per IEEE/IEC.
• Project related all Equipment Selection/ Sizing as per IEEE/IEC
• Evaluation of vendor Drawings, GTP, Calculation & Technical Specs
• LV/MV Engineering for the collector substation, unit substation & pooling station
• ITO (tender) drawings, BOQ estimation, RFQ finalization & evaluation of various components, selection of equipment with best pricing options.
• Co-ordination and integration with Automation, Civil & MEP.
• Co-ordination of site & office team for execution of project
• Flexible and quick to learn global developments in renewable technologies and adopt.
• Knowhow of IEEE / IEC codes, safety in design/EHS aspects, AC substation industry engineering practices.
• Good Communication skills & capability to lead project independently along with Client handling.
• Team handling & development.
  
  

Add-on Competency (Optional)

• Renewable project engg i.e. Solar, On-shore / Off-shore Wind, Battery Storage or hybrid
• HVDC/FACTS integrated project applications.
• Competency on specialized tools like CANECO, ETAP, CDGES or equivalent
  
  

Qualifications / Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering or related field, from an accredited college or university.
• Minimum of 15+ years of experience in EHV/ HV AIS & GIS Substation design.
• Good understanding of power system components (transformers, switchgear, protection systems) and renewable energy integration.
• Excellent communication skills, capable of explaining complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to balance technical requirements and business needs.
• Ability to work collaboratively across teams and with clients.
• Ability to guide/groom team and execute project in line with client/project requirement.
• Ability to expand the competency domain, being able to take new learning challenges.
• Successful experience in management of engineering teams
• Strong influencing and relationship building skills
• Knowledge of project execution risks and financial processes
• Willingness to work in different locations for short or medium period and to travel in the region (Global).
• Demonstrated presentation skills and ability to succinctly communicate complex messages
• Demonstrated ability to lead in an unstructured environment and deliver results
• Demonstrates ownership & accountability, judgment and decision making, influences & inspires team, creates a vision and strategy, and has passion for the role
• Global experience and mindset including high technical cultural competence and sensitivity
  
  

Engineering strategy

• Involve the project engineering function at ITO phase and make it accountable for engineering budget and technical solution proposed.
• Regionalize and rationalize the engineering function in the region
• Align the ‘Make or Buy ‘strategy for engineering activities within the region and define the needs with the discipline Owners
• Define with discipline owners competence requirement per activity function of targeted business.
  
  

Management of engineering offices

• Nominate discipline Owners with support of Operations
• Nominate the key people on project execution with support of discipline owners
• Responsible of the engineering offices’ budget (investments, overheads, other costs) with support of regional offices controller
• Consolidate engineering workloads and manage resources issues
• Consolidate skills assessment and perform competence gap analysis on a regular basis and ensure action plan to fill the gap, as per Grid Solutions’ engineering process.
• Define required recruitment plans per discipline
  
  

Engineering process and tools

• Ensure implementation of consistent process and tools
• Deploy GRID engineering tools and process, including KPI used to measure engineering performance and effectiveness.
• Secure with the support of IT function the adequacy between Engineering tools and IT infrastructure
• Ensure knowledge capitalization through ROE, toward sales, tendering team and Project Engineering
  
  

People management

• Lead and manage engineering teams, and more specifically ensure performance standards, annual objectives, policies and procedures are met and to give coherent objectives across all engineering categories
• Organize and animate engineering community with regular communication
• Ensure the teams have the right level of know-how and competency to perform their responsibilities through coaching and development
• Regularly manage and review performance of lead team according to GE practices.
  
  

Quality

• Comply with Quality Procedures, work instructions and Processes at Grid solutions level and Project Engineering function
• Report or resolve any non-conformances to process in a timely manner
  
  

Performance Measurement

• Evidence of monthly workload plan
• At least a yearly engineering process review for any improvement
• Attends gate reviews with execution team to assess review effectiveness
• Attend tender technical validation meetings to bring Return of experience on past projects and ensure effective involvement of Engineering at ITO phase
• KPI in place, some consolidation done region level with analysis and associated improvement plan
• Budget followed on regular basis (as per finance requirement), anticipation and analysis of potential Budget deviation (Increase or decrease)
• Evidence of regular engineering team information/exchange meeting
• Development of key talents, in both leadership and technical depth, & Yearly skills improvement plan
• Safety leadership and performance
• Zero safety deviations, no safety non-conformances
  
  

Additional Information

Relocation Assistance Provided: Yes