Senior Electrical Design Engineer

Larsen & Toubro; Sharjah; On-site; AED 280,000 - 420,000; Full time

Job summary

Larsen & Toubro in United Arab Emirates seeks a Design Lead (Electrical - AC) to review and execute engineering activities for Solar PV plants, including SLDs, layouts, earthing, cable sizing, transformer sizing and LT/HT breakers. The role requires coordinating with Civil/Structural, Instrumentation, MEP and others, from pre-bid to commissioning and warranty.

The incumbent will support the site execution team, ensure timely delivery, and lead inter‑departmental checks to meet project schedules.

Qualifications

• Must have BE/BTech in Electrical Engineering.
• 10+ years of experience in design aspects of Solar projects.
• Experience with electrical design calculations and layouts.

Responsibilities

• Timely delivery of engineering drawings and documents.
• Review and verify design, sizing calculations, and client approvals.
• Coordinate with multiple disciplines for inter-departmental checks.
• Provide support to site execution during commissioning and warranty.

Skills

Electrical design

Cross-team coordination

Multitasking

Project scheduling

Education

B.E./B.Tech., Electrical

Tools

Dialux

MS Office

ETAP

Job description

As Design Lead (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.

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

Technical Expertise:

• The Design Lead (Electrical AC) is required to have an overall knowledge of equipment layouts and necessary calculations. The Design Lead (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.).

Minimum Qualification :

B.E. / B. Tech., Electrical / Electrical & Electronics Engineering

Experience: Experience :

Minimum 10 years (Must have experience in design aspects of Solar

Software Skills Required:

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