Design Engineer Electrical (AC) - Solar

Larsen & Toubro Limited; Sharjah; On-site; AED 60,000 - 96,000; Full time

Job summary

Larsen & Toubro Limited is seeking a Design Engineer (Electrical - AC) in the UAE to review and execute engineering activities for Solar PV power plants, including SLDs, layouts, earthing, and cable sizing. You will support BIM 3D modeling and coordinate with Civil, Structural, Instrumentation, and MEP teams.

The role requires 3–5 years of relevant experience, diploma/BE/BTech in Electrical, and the ability to lead a team of design engineers and draughtsmen through pre-bid to commissioning and

Qualifications

• Diploma/ BE/ BTech in Electrical or Electrical & Electronics Engineering.
• 3–5 years of design experience in Solar PV power plants or power distribution projects.
• Knowledge of SLDs, layouts, earthing, cable sizing, transformer sizing, LT/HT breakers.
• Ability to coordinate with Civil/Structural, Instrumentation, and MEP teams.

Responsibilities

• Timely delivery of engineering drawings and documents.
• Review drawings and calculations, obtain client approvals.
• Coordinate inter-departmental checks with multiple disciplines.
• Support site execution team and pre-bid activities.
• Lead design engineers and draughts persons within budget and schedule.

Skills

Team leadership

Inter-department coordination

Multitasking

Project scheduling

Education

Diploma/ BE/ BTech Electrical

Tools

Dialux

MS Office

ETAP

Job description

As Design Engineer (Electrical - AC), the person shall be capable of reviewing & executing Engineering Activities like AC SLD, Building Layouts, Earthing Layouts, Cable Sizing Calculations, Transformer Sizing, LT / HT Breakers of Solar PV Power Plants. He shall facilitate the modellers in development of BIM 3D Model for PV Solar Power plants. In addition, she / he has to coordinate with other departments including Inter-departmental checks covering Civil/ Structural, Instrumentation, MEP and others. The Design Lead (Electrical AC ) 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 Draughts Persons 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
• Review drawings by Design Engineers & Draughts Persons. Checking of design & sizing calculations of engineering electrical equipment and obtaining approvals from the client
• Review of Vendor deliverables pertaining to 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 vendors (w.r.t. 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 w.r.t. 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 Electrical DC, Civil /Structural for reviewing Vendor drawings
• Submit requirement of man-hours for undertaking & reviewing of design & drawings of the project

Technical Expertise

• The Design Engineer (Electrical AC) is required to have an overall knowledge of equipment layouts and necessary calculations.
• The Design Engineer (Electrical AC) should also have detailed knowledge of Solar PV Power Plants. She / he should have the understanding of engineering activities covering SLD Preparation, Layout Engineering, Earthing, Cable Routing, Lighting, Lightning Protection, Cable Tray Routing etc. She/he should be capable of performing design & sizing calculations of Busbar, UPS, Battery, LT Transformer, Earthing Conductor, calculations (Short circuit force.). The Design Lead (Electrical AC) is required to have knowledge on National and International Codes and Standards.
• The Design Engineer (Electrical AC) is required to understand and interpret the contractual technical requirements and facilitate the Project Teams as and when required.
• In addition, the Design Lead (Electrical AC) should also have an overall understanding of the inter-disciplinary (Civil & Structural, Mechanical and Instrumentation) design aspects of electrical equipment.

Minimum Qualification : Diploma/ B.E. / B. Tech., Electrical / Electrical & Electronics Engineering

Experience: Experience : 3-5 years (Must have experience in design aspects of Solar PV Power Plants / Power Distribution Projects)

Software Skills Required

• General awareness of Dialux and MS Office.
• Desirable awareness of ETAP.