Project Engineering Manager - Tendering PSS

Larsen & Toubro; Sharjah Emirate; On-site; AED 350,000 - 520,000; Full time

Job summary

Larsen & Toubro in the United Arab Emirates seeks a Project Engineering Manager to oversee engineering activities for substations, ensuring delivery on time, within quality and cost constraints. The role requires inter-discipline coordination (Civil, Structural, MEP & Instrumentation) and active involvement in BIM, procurement, and bid clarifications.

You will allocate work and man-hours, provide technical insights, review designs, and support site execution teams to maintain a positive

Qualifications

• BE/B.Tech in Electrical or Electrical & Electronics Engineering is required.
• 12+ years of experience in substation construction/design & execution leadership.
• Tendering experience is an advantage.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate with Planning Manager to align deliveries with project schedule.
• Conduct regular project reviews and ensure adherence to schedule.
• Review designs, calculations and drawings; obtain customer approvals on time.
• Provide input for Bill of Materials estimation and vendor clarifications.
• Lead design leads, design engineers and draughtsmen across disciplines.

Skills

Leadership

Project planning

Coordination

Resource management

Tender support

Education

BE/B.Tech Electrical/Electrical & Electronics

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. She / He shall perform inter-discipline coordination (Civil, Structural, MEP & Instrumentation). The PEM shall perform work allocation and man-hours allocation of different roles in the project. The PEM will also provide technical insights to the tending team.

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


• Review critical issues and procedural delays w.r.t. design aspects of equipment and extend support to Site Execution teams


• Ensure BIM implementation in the projects


• Settle procurement issues and extend support to Supply Chain management for ensuring order finalization for Vendor Engineering


• Extend support for BOQ, review of pre-bid offers and technical submissions & provide post-tender clarifications (after clarification from vendors) to the contracts team


• Lead and manage team of Design Leads, Design Engineers and Draughtss persons

Software Skills Required

• General awareness of MS Office.


• Desirable awareness of ETAP, PSCAD & CYMGRD and Project Planning Tools

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.


• The PEM is required to have understanding of leading and execution of projects for different geographies / clients / utilities. She / he should have detailed knowledge of the equipment to be installed and the market conditions for vendor engineering.


• The PEM is required to understand and interpret the contractual technical requirements and facilitate the Project Teams as and when required. The PEM shall have good interviewing skills.

Qualification & Experience

• B.E. / B. Tech. in Electrical / Electrical & Electronics Engineering


• 12+ years (Must have experience predominantly in design aspects of Substation Construction and leading Engineers in execution of multiple projects)


• Tendering experience is an advantage (Providing insights ti the tendering team)