Lead Project Engineer - Civil

Linxon; Chennai District; Hybrid; INR 2,800,000 - 5,200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Life Insurance

Hybrid work model

Career progression

Diversity & inclusion

Job summary

Linxon India OPC-Chennai Engineering Team seeks a Project Engineer – OPC to contribute to multi-project civil and structural design for substations. You will handle assignments across design, documentation, and coordination with clients and suppliers, ensuring quality and safety standards are met.

The role supports hybrid work arrangements and involves collaboration with engineering and site teams to deliver complete substation systems for UK utilities and other projects.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in civil/structural engineering.
• 15+ years of experience in substation design (civil/structural).
• Design knowledge on AIS & GIS substation foundations and structures up to 400kV.
• Pile foundation design expertise.
• Site/grading development and drainage planning.
• Knowledge of ANSI standards for substation civil engineering.
• Experience with HV substation civil/structural design.
• Proficiency in STAAD Pro, SAP2000, SAFE, AutoCAD.

Responsibilities

• Evaluates and applies standard techniques to engineering assignments.
• Develop tender engineering deliverables with quality.
• Ensure completeness of assigned packages and correct function of substation systems.
• Coordinate with engineers, sub-contractors and suppliers on technical interfaces.
• Collaborate with site team and attend construction site as needed.
• Prepare technical documentation for equipment specifications and requisitions.
• Contribute to design reviews and lessons learned.

Skills

Project management

Coordination

Quality standards

Safety compliance

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor’s/Master’s in Civil/Structural Engineering

Tools

STAAD Pro

SAP 2000

SAFE Foundation

AutoCAD

L pile

Job description

Job Description

Job Description

Join Us!

We combine AtkinsRéalis project management expertise and Hitachi Energy’s deep technological knowledge to create a company dedicated to substations – we are Linxon!

The Project Engineer – OPC will be a member of Linxon IN OPC-Chennai Engineering Team and will contribute towards the effective operation of project unit.

The position provides design for engineering discipline across multiple engineering projects within the OPC. Complete the assignments on multiple projects of moderate size or portions of major projects, cost-effectively and in accordance with contract specifications, quality standards. Highest quality standards are applied, and safety requirements are taken into consideration

What will you do?

• Evaluates, selects and applies standard techniques and procedures to perform engineering assignments. Provides technical support for installation and commissioning activities. Prepares project documentation within one’s scope of deliverables.
• Develop the tender engineering deliverable in short time period with quality
• Secure the completeness of the assigned packages and correct function of the resulting substation system.
• Confirm the engineering is developed, taken into consideration the complete information and all inter discipline checks has been conducted, the results are documented in the project specific storage area.
• Solve problems that appear during engineering development.
• Focus on cost-efficient system solutions
• Report and keep records for all engineering changes. Cooperate with the engineering team and agree on the project specific impacts, caused by the changes.
• Ensure compliance with Linxon and Client engineering guidelines, standards and quality across the complete engineering process.
• Creates work plans and cost estimates in own area of responsibility.
• Co-ordinate clarify with engineers, sub-contractors and suppliers technical issues (within the assigned scope of work) and technical interfaces.
• Collaborate with the site team, attend site during construction phase if necessary.
• Contribute to the risk & opportunity register, by communicating observations.
• Prepare all technical documentation for the equipment specification as input to the purchase requisitions
• Contribute to the Up-to-date design issue log
• Safety – Understand and follow Linxon OHS procedures and guidelines
• Participate at design reviews.
• Provide input for close out report and lessons learned, and follow/review lessons learned for next projects

Experience, Education and other Required:

• Bachelor’s Degree / master’s degree in civil / Structural Engineering.
• 15 + years of experience in substation design on Civil and Structural.
• Complete Design knowledge on Civil design and detail engineering of AIS & GIS substation foundation, Structures up to 400kV.
• Pile foundation design skills.
• Site / Grading development grading plan, section, details and cut & fill quantities table
• Site drainage layout preparation.
• Flood plain mitigation plan
• SWPPP plan
• Stormwater drainage plan, attenuation features section and details
• Erosion control plan, sections and details
• Road plan, section and details including culvert and existing road connections
• Soil management and site facilities plan, section and details
• Final finish surfacing plan, section and details
• Knowledge on ANSI standards for substation civil engineering is desired.
• Overall engineering design experience on Base, Detail Civil, structural engineering in GIS or AIS substation for UK utilities is required.
• Hands on experience in HV Substation Civil, Structural Design engineering preparation of Site Grading, Foundation design and detailed engineering drawings, Structural design and detailed engineering drawings, Preparation BOM, Building design and detailing etc.
• Review of Consultant design and drawing and provide in depth comments
• Coordinate with Site, Customer, consultant and contactor.
• Work with complete engineering team.
• Complete design experience on Civil software like STAAD Pro, SAP 2000 Structural Analysis , SAFE Foundation Analysis, L pile, AUTOCAD applications and tools.
• Understanding of electronic records management systems.
• High attention to detail and quality.

What we offer:

In return, we offer a wide range of rewards and benefits,

• 20 days Privilege Leave, 13 days Emergency leave and 14 Public holidays per year

• Medical Insurance, Life Insurance and Career Progression

• We also have a brilliant smarter working policy, too. That means many of folks are able to either work from home or as part of our hybrid model.

• When it comes to diversity and inclusion, we see things differently at Linxon - we encourage applications from people of all races, ages, genders, religions, sexual orientations and more - so whoever you are, we hope you’ll see things our way, too.

About Linxon

Shaping energy solutions to empower sustainable connectivity.

We combine AtkinsRéalis project management expertise and Hitachi Energy’s deep technological knowledge to create a company dedicated to substations – we are Linxon.

Linxon’s vision is to deliver the best market offering for turnkey substation projects through world-class power technologies and delivering the highest level of competence in managing infrastructure projects.

As a leading engineering company, we help our customers with turnkey substation solutions in the field of power transmission, renewable energy, and transportation.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to be part of a new company as it evolves and help shape it for the future. If you like new challenges, have an entrepreneurial spirit, and are interested in working with other motivated professionals with expertise in the Substations EPC business, then this is the new opportunity for you.

To know more about the Linxon please click on the link below.

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Worker Type

Employee

Job Type

Regular

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