Group Lead - Energy & Utilities

Indovance; Pune District; On-site; INR 3,000,000 - 5,400,000; Full time

Job summary

Indovance invites an accomplished engineering leader to head a 50+ offshore delivery unit focused on power systems, renewables, and substation engineering. You will oversee scope, timelines, and quality across North American and European clients, driving margins, utilization, and client satisfaction.

The role requires extensive experience in AutoCAD Electrical, ETAP, DigSILENT, PLS-CADD, and related workflows, with strong English communication and leadership skills to mentor multidisciplinary

Qualifications

• Minimum 15+ years engineering delivery, operations, or leadership in energy/utilities/power systems.
• Experience managing offshore or distributed engineering teams for international clients, preferably North America.
• Strong knowledge of solar PV, wind balance of plant, interconnection, and T&D deliverables.
• Hands-on background in renewables, power distribution, substations, and offshore engineering delivery.
• Excellent English communication and client-facing leadership abilities.

Responsibilities

• Own delivery metrics and business-unit performance (margins, utilization, SLAs).
• Lead a 50+ member offshore engineering delivery unit across diverse disciplines.
• Manage client scope, timelines, deliverables, escalations and RFIs for NA/EU clients.
• Ensure technical accuracy across power systems, renewables, and substations.
• Implement multi-tier QA/QC for design packages and CAD/BIM deliverables.

Skills

Leadership

Client relationship management

English communication

Offshore delivery management

Education

M.E./M.Tech in Electrical Engineering

Tools

AutoCAD Electrical

ETAP

DigSILENT

PLS-CADD

Civil 3D

Revit

Bentley Substation

PVSyst

Job description

Indovance Inc. was founded in 2003, and maintains headquarters in Apex, North Carolina, United States with operations team, Indovance Private Limited, based in Pune, India. All our operations are ISO 9001:2015 certified, making us a budding process driven organization. Our clients range from mid-sized firms to Fortune 500 companies and are located across the globe.

One of our key strategies is to partner with emerging talent around the country and grow together as a company. We employ a team of 500 enthusiasts with experience level ranging from 0 to 30+ years and that gets us the right mix of talent and expertise in the domain. We are an equal opportunity employer. Our philosophy is “Hire characters; train skills.” We are always on the lookout for employees that share our Core Values and can help drive our Vision.

To know more, visit us at www.indovance.com and follow us at our social handles – Facebook & LinkedIn

Job Description

Key Responsibilities

• Business Unit Ownership: Own delivery and business-unit metrics including gross margins, billable utilization, delivery SLAs, project profitability, client retention, NPS, and engineering bench readiness.
• Operational Scaling: Build, manage, and scale a 50+ member offshore engineering delivery unit comprising CAD draftspersons, BIM modelers, electrical engineers, structural engineers, and project coordinators.
• Client Relationship Management: Serve as the senior operational and technical point of contact for North American and European enterprise clients, managing scope, timelines, deliverables, escalations, RFIs, change orders, and service-level commitments.
• Technical Leadership: Own the technical accuracy of deliverables across power systems, renewables, substations, and transmission/distribution projects.
• Quality Gatekeeping: Establish and perform multi-tier QA/QC reviews for single line diagrams, schematic layouts, cable tray layouts, substation design packages, solar PV string layouts, T&D route plans, and CAD/BIM deliverables.
• Standards Compliance: Ensure all project deliverables comply with client specifications, ISO 9001 quality practices, utility guidelines, NEC, NESC, IEEE, IEC, and relevant local standards.
• Delivery Governance: Create planning rhythms, dashboards, review mechanisms, risk registers, escalation protocols, SOPs, technical checklists, and reusable design libraries for predictable execution.
• Financial Performance: Monitor utilization, resource allocation, project margins, billing leakage, productivity, rework cost, and cost-to-serve across the business unit.
• Automation and Efficiency: Drive adoption of automation tools, custom scripts, reusable templates, and software integrations to improve turnaround time, reduce rework, and increase delivery efficiency.
• Software and Workflow Excellence: Standardize workflows across AutoCAD Electrical, ETAP, DigSILENT, PLS-CADD, Bentley Substation, Revit MEP, Civil 3D, and PVSyst as applicable.
• Talent Development: Define skill matrices, training roadmaps, hiring plans, mentoring systems, succession pipelines, and capability‑building initiatives for drafting and engineering teams.
• Continuous Improvement: Identify recurring delivery and design errors, improve review mechanisms, and strengthen the offshore production pipeline for speed, accuracy, consistency, and client confidence.

Requirements

• M.E. / M.Tech in Electrical Engineering, Power Systems Engineering, or a related discipline.
• 15+ years of engineering delivery, operations, project execution, or technical leadership experience in energy, utilities, renewables, or power systems.
• Strong hands‑on background in renewable energy, power distribution, transmission, substation design, and offshore engineering delivery.
• Minimum 10+ years of experience managing offshore or distributed engineering teams for international clients, preferably in North American markets.
• Strong knowledge of solar PV, wind balance of plant, utility interconnection, protection concepts, equipment layouts, grounding, cable routing, primary/secondary engineering, and T&D deliverables.
• Advanced working knowledge of AutoCAD Electrical, ETAP or DigSILENT, PLS-CADD, and integration with Civil 3D, Revit, Bentley Substation, or PVSyst workflows.
• Deep familiarity with IEEE, NESC, IEC, NEC, ISO 9001 practices, and utility‑specific design standards.
• Proven ability to manage multidisciplinary teams, delivery governance, client escalations, operational KPIs, margins, design quality, and technical capability building.
• Excellent English communication skills with a client‑first, analytical, high‑ownership, detail‑oriented leadership style.

Success Measures

• Build and stabilize a 50+ billale FTEs delivery unit with clear role structure, utilization discipline, and technical depth by Mar’27.
• Maintain 85%+ billable utilization while protecting delivery quality, technical accuracy, and team sustainability.
• Achieve strong client satisfaction and retention
• Improve first-time-right delivery of drawing packages, engineering models, and design outputs.
• Reduce rework through structured QA/QC, design review mechanisms, SOPs, and technical checklists.
• Improve profitability through stronger planning, resource allocation, automation, and delivery governance.
• Develop a stronger technical bench through structured training, mentoring, and standardized design methodologies.
• Strengthen client confidence in Indovance’s engineering capability for energy transition projects.