Lead Primary Engineer

Siemens; Gurugram District; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Job summary

Siemens Energy India Limited is seeking a Senior Design Engineer – Primary to deliver high-quality designs for HV substations, including SLDs, layouts, cable routing and grounding calculations. The role emphasizes coordination with clients, civil and project teams to meet budgets and schedules.

The candidate should bring 10–20 years of HV substation design experience, strong CAD skills (AutoCAD, Revit, Visio, E3D) and familiarity with relevant standards.

Qualifications

• Broad electrical design exposure in HV substations.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work with cross-functional teams and clients.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high-quality primary designs including SLDs, layouts and sections for HV substations.
• Prepare design calculations (bus bar sizing, short circuit, sag-tension, grounding).
• Prepare purchase specs for HV equipment and review supplier drawings for HVAC substations.
• Generate BOQ for grounding, cable trays, LV power/control, clamps & connectors, busbar, etc.
• Coordinate with client, civil, project management and other interfaces as needed.
• Ensure design delivery aligns with project program and escalate issues when required.
• Maintain design consistency and contribute to department improvements.

Skills

Electrical design

Communication

Team collaboration

Education

Electrical Engineering degree

Tools

AutoCAD

Revit

Visio

E3D

Job description

Job Description:

Senior Design Engineer – Primary is Responsible for providing primary designs, solutions and technical input to contracts and all areas within the employee’s business area. Delivering departmental work packages on time and to budget.

A Snapshot of Your Day

How Youll Make an Impact

• To deliver a high-quality Primary design includes preparing Single line Diagram (SLD), layout and sections of switchyard, Cable Trench layout, GIS/Control Building General Arrangement drawing along with plan and sections, Cable Spread Plan for HV Cable & Tray Layout for GIS/Control Building Basement, Earthing/Lightning layout and its calculations, Illumination layout and its calculations Erection key diagram & Al Tube cutting Schedule, Hardware selections, Transformer yard layout etc.
• Design calculations for bus bar sizing, short circuit force, SAG-Tension, cantilever strength, DSLP, Grounding, Aux Transformer sizing, Battery & Battery Charger sizing, DG set sizing, UPS sizing, illumination, and Load flow study (MV & LV system).
• Preparing purchase specifications of HV equipment and reviewing suppliers offer, preparing loading data, reviewing and comment supplier’s drawings etc. for HVAC substations.
• Full Responsibility for analyzing and commenting on customer specification, writing clarifications, and seeking amendments.
• Responsible for generation of BOQ for Grounding, Cable Tray, LV power/control, Clamps & Connectors, Busbar etc.
• Should be well conversant on AutoCAD, Revit, Visio and E3D.
• Responsible for co-ordination with the client, civil, project management and other interfaces, this will be as agreed with own team leader.
• Monitoring of the engineering delivery progress as per the engineering programme of the project, escalating issues as and when required to the team leader.
• As agreed with the team leader to ensure design risk assessments/HAZID’s are in place for all design solutions and residual risk’s are passed on to the H&S file.
• To help and agree with the team leader for maintaining consistency in design.
• To support the team leader and work on the departmental improvement issues.
• Actively involve in standardization of onshore primary design as agreed with own team leader.
• Actively involve & promote Top+ business improvement programme within the team.
• Takes ownership and accountability for area of responsibility.Makes a positive contribution to the team, department.Sets own goals and clarifies expectations with the team leader. Invests time to help and facilitate the work of others as and when required.Responds to the ideas, concerns and needs of the team.Demonstrates interest in professional development to maximize own potential.
• Maintaining consistency of design on each contract by adherence to processes and procedures.
• Works collaboratively with all engineering departments and project managers within Siemens ET.
• Commitment to Siemens Think Customer initiative including excellent call handling and voice mail skills.
• Continuous reviewing of engineering processes and procedures to improve and recommend changes.

What You Bring

• Typically 10-20 years of design experience within the HV substation business.
• Good knowledge of design experience within the HV substation business.
• Fully conversant with the latest T& D standards.
• Good understanding of relevant standards & specifications (Like IS, IEC, IEEE, Electricity rules, SIGRE, CBIP, NBC, Fire safety, standard practices).
• Fully conversant with Health and safety standards including CDM regulations applicable to the design of HV substation.
• Should be well conversant in Auto CAD
• Good standard of IT literacy – especially Word, Visio and Excel.
• Good written, verbal, communication and interpersonal skills.
• Degree Qualified in Electrical Engineering

Who is Siemens Energy India?

Siemens Energy India Limited (SEIL) has been a strategic partner in India for more than 100 years and is focused on being the most-valued energy technology company. Our large footprint spread across the entire region (India, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, Nepal, Maldives) with state-of-the-art facilities and customers installations positively impacts the lives of hundreds of millions of people, helping the countries navigate their energy transition and achieve its net zero targets.

SEIL is a pure play energy technology company, offering a comprehensive portfolio of products, solutions, and services designed to support our customers along the entire energy value chain to go through their energy transition journey and achieve their net zero targets. Our portfolio offering includes low to zero emissions power generation, power transmission and storage, and decarbonization of the industry. More information on: www.siemens-energy-india.com

Find out how you can make a difference at Siemens Energy: https://www.siemens-energy.com/employeevideo

Our Commitment to Diversity

Lucky for us, we are not all the same. Through diversity, we generate power. We run on inclusion and our combined creative energy is fueled by #TeamPurpleIndia. Siemens Energy celebrates character – no matter what ethnic background, gender, age, religion, identity, or disability. We energize society, all of society, and we do not discriminate based on our differences.

Job ID

521299

Posted since

13-Sep-2026

Organization

Siemens Energy

Field of work

Engineering

Company

SIEMENS ENERGY INDIA LIMITED

Experience level

Experienced Professional

Job type

Full-time

Work mode

Office/Site only

Employment type

Permanent

Location(s)

• Gurugram - Haryana - India