Group Lead - Energy & Utilities

Indovance Inc; Pune District; On-site; INR 350,000 - 550,000; Full time

Job summary

Indovance Inc. in Pune seeks a Senior Operations leader to own delivery across power systems, renewables, and substation design.

You will guide a 50+ offshore engineering delivery unit, manage client scopes, timelines, and quality, and drive automation and efficiency. You'll partner with North American and European clients, ensure ISO and IEEE/IEC standards, and build a strong technical bench with structured training and governance.

Qualifications

• ME/MTech in Electrical Engineering or related field.
• 15+ years in engineering delivery, operations, or leadership in energy/power systems.
• Experience managing offshore/distributed teams for international clients (NA/Europe).

Responsibilities

• Own delivery and unit metrics including margins, utilization, SLAs, and client retention.
• Lead a 50+ offshore engineering delivery unit with CAD/BIM professionals and engineers.
• Serve as senior contact for North American and European clients on scope, timelines, and deliverables.
• Ensure technical accuracy across power systems, renewables, substations, and T&D projects.
• Establish multi-tier QA/QC reviews for diagrams, layouts, and design packages.
• Ensure compliance with ISO 9001, NEC/NESC/IEEE/IEC and client standards.
• Create planning rhythms, dashboards, risk registers, SOPs, and reusable libraries.
• Monitor utilization, margins, billing leakage, and cost-to-serve across the unit.
• Drive automation, scripts, templates, and integrations to improve turnaround time.
• Standardize workflows across AutoCAD Electrical, ETAP, DigSILENT, and others.
• Define skill matrices, training roadmaps, hiring plans, and mentoring systems.
• Identify recurring errors and improve offshore production pipeline for speed and accuracy.

Skills

Leadership

Client management

Delivery governance

QA/QC

Standards compliance

Automation tools

Offshore delivery

Technical leadership

Mentoring

Education

ME / MTech Electrical

Tools

AutoCAD Electrical

ETAP

DigSILENT

PLS-CADD

Bentley Substation

Revit MEP

Civil 3D

PVSyst

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

Job Information

Number of Positions: 1

Department Name: Operations

Industry: Engineering

Experience Required: 15+

Qualification: ME / M Tech Electrical

City: Pune City

State/Province: Maharashtra

Zip/Postal Code: 411001

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.

Benefits

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.