Project Engineering Manager – Substation

Larsen & Toubro; Sharjah; On-site; AED 300,000 - 480,000; Full time

Job summary

Larsen & Toubro invites applications for a Project Engineering Manager to oversee engineering activities on our substations project in the UAE. You will ensure adherence to time, quality and cost targets, and drive deliveries with a positive margin.

Key responsibilities include coordinating with the Planning Manager, conducting progress reviews, reviewing designs and drawings, coordinating with vendors, and ensuring timely BOM estimation and material delivery.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or higher in electrical engineering or related field (if present in ad).
• Experience in substation project engineering and multi-discipline coordination.
• Strong analytical and design review capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate with Project Planning Manager and ensure deliveries align with the project schedule.
• Conduct regular project reviews and ensure adherence to the schedule.
• Review designs, calculations and drawings for timely customer approvals.
• Clarify issues with vendors and ensure timely material delivery to site.
• Enable accurate estimation of quantities for BOM submissions.

Skills

Electrical engineering

Substation design

GIS/AIS design

Project coordination

Vendor coordination

Tools

ETAP

PSCAD

CYMGRD

MS Office

Project Planning Tools

Job description

As a Project Engineering Manager, the person shall ensure that the engineering activities of the project takes place within stipulated time (w.r.t. both quality & cost). She / He shall ensure the adherence to L2 schedule during execution of the project. She / He shall work on optimizations / alternate proposals / solutions for quick delivery of the project with a positive margin.

Key Responsibilities:

• Coordinate with Project Planning Manager and ensure deliveries are aligned to Project Schedule
• Conduct regular project review meetings and ensure adherence to schedule
• Conduct internal review meetings for resource optimization, allocation and enhance productivity
• Review of designs, calculations & drawings and ensure their timely submissions after obtaining approvals from customer
• Clarification of issues w.r.t. vendors and ensuring timely delivery of materials at project site
• Capable of Multitasking and deliver multiple things on time
• Clarification to inter – discipline Managers for sorting out issues w.r.t. design aspects of the equipment
• Enable & review accurate estimation in terms of quantity for submission of Bill of Materials

Technical Expertise:

The Project Engineering Manager shall have overall expertise in both primary engineering & secondary engineering for substation projects. The Manager is required to have thorough understanding in design aspects of GIS / AIS Substations up to 765 KV.

She / He is required to be proficient in selection of equipment such as Power Transformers, Reactors, Circuit Breakers, Disconnectors, Instrument Transformer. He shall be well versed in Substation Primary and Secondary Design including Earthing, Lighting, Lightning Protection, Cabling etc, interfaces between Civil, MEP & Instrumentation and Secondary engineering activities like Schemes, Wiring Diagrams, SCADA & Control System.

Software Skills Required:

• General awareness of MS Office.
• Desirable awareness of ETAP, PSCAD & CYMGRD and Project Planning Tools