Principal Engineer I - Civil & Structural

Air Liquide; New Delhi; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Air Liquide in Delhi seeks a Principal Engineer to lead civil/structural disciplines for EPC/detail design projects. You will drive safety, quality, schedule, and cost performance, review vendor documents, and coordinate across teams. The role requires discipline leadership, strong design analysis, and proactive risk mitigation.

The position emphasizes practical, safe engineering solutions and client-focused execution in a complex project environment. Delhi-based, with on-site work expectations.

Qualifications

• Education as stated: MTech/ME or BTech/BE in Civil and Structural.
• 11–15 years in EPC or detail design for oil, gas, energy, refining, petrochemicals.
• Experience with structural design and code standards.
• Proficient in STAAD Pro, AutoCAD, and Navisworks or similar tools.

Responsibilities

• Lead discipline engineering for proposals and projects within contracted scope.
• Ensure deliverables meet quality, schedule, and cost targets.
• Support technical procurement and vendor document reviews.
• Provide site assistance and respond to site queries.
• Manage Change Management and lessons learned processes.
• Coordinate with lead engineer on progress and resource use.
• Perform design analyses for structures and foundations; optimize sizing.

Skills

Discipline leadership

Interdisciplinary coordination

Cost optimization

Project scheduling

Education

MTech/ME in Civil and Structural

BTech/BE in Civil and Structural

Tools

STAAD Pro

AutoCAD

MS Office

Smart Plant Review/Navisworks

Job description

Job Summary

The Principal Engineer is part of the hierarchical organization, reporting directly to Team Manager as direct discipline superior. The Principal Engineer has strong ability in technical matters with profound knowledge of applicable Engineering principles and processes with an emphasis on safe, compliant, reliable, efficient and practical solutions required for the engineering design and execution of proposals and projects. The Principal Engineer acts as the discipline lead engineer for various proposals and projects and is responsible to deliver the work within contractual framework, quality, and schedule and overall cost effectiveness, in order to meet the overall project desired results.

Responsibilities

• Executes in compliance with Discipline Manual and Job Manual during project execution to ensure that all contractual requirements are implemented and fulfilled.
• Ensures good quality of the deliverables for the design work.
• Ensures completion of allocated tasks within allotted man-hours and schedule dates.
• Contributes to on time quality review of Inter-discipline documents and vendor deliverables.
• Contributes to implementation of safety relevant principles, standards, rules and procedures.
• Contributes to implementation of lessons learnt identified for the assigned projects.
• Supports the technical procurement activities for various types of equipment.
• Supports reviews and approval of Vendor documents applicable for the Discipline.
• Site assistance through replying site queries.
• Executes applicable scope of work in compliance with the requirements of the HSE Management System and IMS for the discipline/project.
• Ensures that the documentation is prepared, checked and approved according to Project Quality Plan and ready to be released by the respective Lead Engineer.
• Provides all necessary input to the lessons learnt process/capitalization and best engineering practice.
• Communicates to the Lead Engineer status and progress of project schedule deliverables.
• Communicates man-hour spent per engineering package.
• Records and communicates all changes to original scope.
• Contributes to Change Management.
• Analysis Design of structure in line with specifications, project requirements.
• Structural steel connection design
• Estimation of Construction quantities and Manage quantities during the project
• Participate in the subcontracting activities (ITB preparation, clarifications with the bidders...) and provide support to the site activities during erection.
• Manage, Coordinate, Validate soil studies / topographical/geotechnical surveys
• Analysis Design Pile Foundation
• Analysis Design Soil Supported Foundation
• Analysis Design of Dynamic Foundations (Compressors, Motors, Fans etc)
• Optimize the structure design: minimizing member sizing
• Experience with various codes and standards
• Experience in using STAAD Pro software tool
• Anticipation and Identification of risks and opportunities and recommend mitigations during execution
• Effective Communication skills with proactive coordination to manage interdisciplinary workflow.
• Ability to identify cost optimization opportunities during project execution.

Requirements

• Education: MTech /ME, BTech / BE in Civil and Structural
• Work Experience: 11-15 Experience in EPC or Detail design engineering company in the engineering discipline for execution of projects in various sectors like Oil Gas, Energy, Refining, Petrochemicals.
• Tool proficiency - STAAD Pro, Auto-CAD, MS Office, Smart Plant Review / Navisworks
• Promoting achieving Safety: Promotes Safety; demonstrates personal commitment to Safety and inspires the same level of commitment in colleagues
• Customer Mindset: Understands the customers needs, expectations and priorities; proposes reliable and competitive solutions; responds with appropriate speed; builds lasting relationship with customers; brings the customers voice inside Air Liquide
• Strategy and Performance Management Skills: Accurately analyzes information, data, arguments and/or assumptions; takes into consideration resources, constraints, and organizational values. Determines underlying causes and effects.
• Anticipates and takes initiative to overcome challenges and barriers; reprioritizes as appropriate.

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