Design Lead (Electrical AC) - Solar

Larsen & Toubro; Chennai District; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 3,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Larsen & Toubro is seeking an Engineering Manager - Solar (Electrical AC) to lead and execute engineering activities for PV power plants. You will supervise the preparation of SLDs, layouts, earthing, cable sizing, transformer sizing, and LT/HT breakers while ensuring quality and on-time delivery.

You will coordinate with Civil, Structural, Instrumentation, and MEP teams, support pre-bid engineering, and assist site teams through commissioning and warranty periods.

Qualifications

• BE/B.Tech in Electrical or Electrical & Electronics Engineering is required.
• 7–10 years of design experience in Solar PV power plants or power distribution projects.
• Experience coordinating multi-disciplinary teams and delivering within budget.

Responsibilities

• Timely delivery of engineering drawings and documents.
• Review and check design and sizing calculations of electrical equipment.
• Coordinate with Civil, Structural, Instrumentation and MEP teams.
• Support pre-bid engineering, site execution, and warranty activities.
• Lead a team of design engineers and draughtsmen to meet schedule.
• Myriad reviews of vendor deliverables and client approvals.
• Plan man-hour requirements and manage inter-department checks.
• Clarify design requirements to site execution teams.
• Coordinate with operations and collect inputs from vendors.

Skills

AC SLD

Building Layouts

Earthing Layouts

Cable Sizing Calculations

Transformer Sizing

LT/HT Breakers

Education

BE/B.Tech in Electrical

Tools

Dialux

MS Office

ETAP

Job description

As Engineering Manager - Solar (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 Engineering Manager - Solar (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

Software Skills Required

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

Technical Expertise

• The Engineering Manager - Solar (Electrical AC) is required to have an overall knowledge of equipment layouts and necessary calculations.
• The Engineering Manager - Solar (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 Engineering Manager - Solar (Electrical AC) is required to have knowledge on National and International Codes and Standards.
• The Engineering Manager - Solar (Electrical AC) is required to understand and interpret the contractual technical requirements and facilitate the Project Teams as and when required.
• In addition, Engineering Manager - Solar (Electrical AC) should also have an overall understanding of the inter-disciplinary (Civil & Structural, Mechanical and Instrumentation) design aspects of electrical equipment.

Qualification & Experience

• B.E. / B. Tech., Electrical / Electrical & Electronics Engineering
• 7–10 years (Must have experience in design aspects of Solar PV Power Plants / Power Distribution Projects)