Lead Engineer

ABB; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Job summary

ABB in Bangalore, India, seeks an experienced Electrical Project Engineer to lead engineering activities across multiple disciplines. You will ensure efficient, cost-effective execution and act as a design authority for a specific discipline, delivering assignments with accountability for quality and timelines.

Ideal candidates have 8–13 years in electric projects within process industries, strong knowledge of power distribution systems, substations, and prefabricated E-Houses, and a proven

Qualifications

• 8-13 years of relevant work experience in electric projects within process industries.
• Independent handling of projects end-to-end in engineering environments.
• Experience on large electrification projects in metals, mining, cement, or pulp & paper is advantageous.
• Knowledge of electrical power distribution systems for large process plants.
• Experience with outdoor/indoor substations and prefabricated/E-house substations.

Responsibilities

• Review project scope from RFPs and create value-added solutions.
• Handle basic and detail electrical engineering, including single-line diagrams and protection philosophy.
• Act as design authority for electrical disciplines and review supplier offers and drawings.
• Plan electrical lay-out and estimate cable lengths and trays from 2D/3D layouts.
• Coordinate with supply chain and subcontractors, review offers and equipment specs.
• Identify improvements, introduce state-of-the-art tech, and capture lessons learned.

Skills

Electrical engineering

Technical leadership

Design authority

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering

Job description

This Position reports to: Principal Project Engineer

Your role and responsibilities: In this role, you will have the opportunity to act as the technical lead for all engineering activities in assignments. Each day, you will ensure the activities related to all engineering disciplines within the project are executed in an efficient and cost-effective manner. You will also showcase your expertise by acting as a design authority for a particular engineering discipline and completing the corresponding engineering assignments.

The work model for the role is: #LI_Hybrid

This role is contributing to the Process Automation business for Process Industries division based in Bangalore, India.

You will be mainly accountable for:

• Review engineering scope for projects from RFPs, tender document and create value added solutions.
• Take responsibility of basic and detail electrical engineering for the projects pertaining to Mining, Cement, Metals & Pulp & Paper such as preparation of single line diagram, protection and metering philosophy, load list segregation, design basis.
• Undertake equipment engineering activities, such as equipment sizing calculations, specifications for electrical items, review supplier offers, review and approve supplier drawings and documents.
• Plant tray layout engineering for electrical scope based on the 2D-3D layout drawings furnished by customer/OEM. Estimation of cable lengths, trays & all other erection accessories
• Collaborates with Supply Chain Management to coordinate requests to subcontractors along with preparation of equipment specification and review of offers.
• Identify the areas of improvement, bring state-of-art technology, optimize and implement them wherever possible, incorporate lessons learnt from past projects
• Support for bid & proposal activities for electrical scope of supply in process industries.

Qualifications for the role :

• 8-13 years of relevant work experience in electric projects pertaining in Process industries preferable. (Metals , P&P, Mining and Cement)
• I ndependent handling of projects end-to-end. Experience in project engineering with consulting companies or with engineering departments of EPC companies.
• Experience on large electrification projects in Metals industry will be advantage. ( CRM , HSM, Profile Mills etc).
• Electrical Power Distribution System for large process plants (MV Switchgear, LT Switchgear, Intelligent MCCs, Bus Trunking)
• Outdoor and Indoor Substation Design.
• Design of containerized Substations and Control Rooms i.e. Prefabricated Substations/ E Houses
• Good knowledge on E-House including construction design, Layout.
• Plant engineering ie Cable and tray engineering concepts along with lighting, lightning and earthing design. For Normal substation as well as Prefabricated/Ehouse substations.

More about us:

The Process Industries Division serves the mining, minerals processing, metals, cement, pulp and paper, battery manufacturing, and food and beverage, as well as their associated service industries. The Division brings deep industry domain expertise coupled with the ability to integrate both automation and electrical systems, increase productivity and reduce overall capital and operating costs for customers. For mining, metals and cement customers, solutions include specialized products and services, as well as total production systems. The Division designs, plans, engineers, supplies, installs and commissions integrated electrical and motion systems, including electric equipment, drives, motors, high power rectifiers and equipment for automation and supervisory control within a variety of areas including mineral handling, mining operations, aluminum smelting, hot and cold steel applications and cement production. The offering for the pulp and paper industries includes control systems, quality control systems, drive systems, on-line sensors, actuators and field instruments. Digitalization solutions, including collaborative operations and augmented reality, help improve plant and enterprise productivity, and reduce maintenance and energy costs.