India Design Manager / Lead Engineer

siscojobs; Tiruchirappalli; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

UK project exposure

Senior leadership role

Job summary

Sisco Jobs in Trichy, Tamil Nadu, represents a senior India Design Manager / Lead Engineer role for a UK grid-infrastructure programme. You will lead an India-based multidisciplinary design team delivering HV transmission and substations, owning design governance and technical assurance.

Candidates should have 15+ years in HV power, strong leadership, and experience coordinating with UK stakeholders, suppliers, and construction teams.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of multidisciplinary engineering experience.
• Experience with high-voltage power, substations, utilities.
• Proven capability in design coordination, governance and assurance.

Responsibilities

• Establish and manage design plans, schedules and governance.
• Lead multidisciplinary design integration across electrical, civil, and BIM disciplines.
• Coordinate UK programme interfaces and construction-support activities.
• Chair design reviews and ensure independent technical checks.
• Maintain safety, buildability, and compliance with UK/IEC/BS standards.
• Coach engineers and develop repeatable design processes.
• Oversee interfaces with UK stakeholders and suppliers.

Skills

HV Transmission

Design Integration

Design Assurance

Technical Governance

Engineering Leadership

Education

Bachelors in Electrical Engineering

Postgraduate qualification

Chartered status advantageous

Job description

About Sisco Jobs

We are Sisco Jobs, a recruitment consultancy based in Trichy, Tamil Nadu. We are hiring on behalf of our client for the position of India Design Manager / Lead Engineer in Trichy, Tamil Nadu. Our client is seeking a highly experienced engineering professional to lead an India-based multidisciplinary design team delivering high-voltage transmission and grid-infrastructure engineering for UK programmes. The position owns design integration, technical governance, quality, programme interfaces, and the issue of coordinated and independently checked engineering deliverables.

Key Responsibilities

• Establish and manage project design plans, deliverables schedules, resource plans, responsibility matrices, and design assurance strategies.
• Lead multidisciplinary teams covering primary electrical, protection/control/SCADA, cable systems, civil/structural, and BIM/digital disciplines.
• Coordinate engineering activities across concept design, detailed design, and construction-support stages.
• Chair design reviews, technical risk reviews, interface meetings, and constructability reviews while maintaining actions, assumptions, constraints, and decision records.
• Ensure engineering designs are safe, buildable, maintainable, and compliant with applicable UK requirements and IEC/BS/ENA standards.
• Control design inputs and outputs including calculations, drawings, specifications, reports, models, schedules, technical queries, deviations, and changes.
• Define checking and approval routes and ensure appropriate independent technical reviews are completed before deliverables are issued.
• Manage interfaces with UK stakeholders, suppliers, and construction/site teams while coaching engineers and developing repeatable engineering processes.

Required Skills

• HV Substation & Transmission Engineering: Strong technical understanding of 400/220/132/33 kV environments.
• Multidisciplinary Design Integration: Ability to coordinate electrical, protection/control/SCADA, cable, civil/structural, and BIM/digital engineering.
• Design Assurance: Experience establishing checking, independent review, approval, and technical assurance processes.
• Technical Governance: Ability to control engineering inputs, outputs, technical risks, queries, deviations, interfaces, and changes.
• Engineering Leadership: Capability to lead discipline engineers, assess competency, support recruitment, and develop engineering processes.

Preferred Skills

• Experience delivering engineering for UK grid-infrastructure programmes.
• Strong exposure to constructability reviews and construction-support engineering.
• Experience supporting tenders, work-package definition, effort estimation, and lessons-learned processes.

Work Experience Requirements

Candidates must have 15+ years of relevant professional experience, including substantial hands-on responsibility for multidisciplinary engineering deliverables. Experience must include high-voltage power, transmission, substations, utilities, or directly comparable critical infrastructure, with senior responsibility for design coordination, assurance, and technical governance.

Education

• Minimum: Typical — Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Power Engineering, or a closely related engineering discipline.
• Preferred: Typical — Postgraduate engineering qualification or relevant professional engineering credential.
• Additional: Typical — Chartered/professional engineering status or relevant power-system/design-management certification would be advantageous.