Principal Engineer II - Electrical

Air Liquide; Delhi; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 3,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Air Liquide in India seeks a Principal Engineer to lead electrical engineering for EPC projects, delivering compliant, safe and cost-effective design solutions. You will coordinate with multi-disciplinary teams and vendors, ensure quality and schedule adherence, perform critical calculations and drive continuous improvement across projects.

The role requires 15–18 years in relevant sectors, advanced electrical degree, and strong client interaction skills.

Qualifications

• 15-18 years of EPC or detail design experience in electrical engineering
• Exposure to oil & gas, air separation, energy, refining, petrochemicals sectors
• Experience with client ITB reviews and cost/manhours estimations
• Proficiency in electrical calculations (power balance, cable sizing, earthing, lighting) using ETAP, Excel and related tools

Responsibilities

• Lead electrical engineering for projects and coordinate with disciplines, vendors and construction teams
• Ensure compliance with discipline and job manuals and delivery within scope, time and cost
• Review vendor documents and participate in inspections and site queries
• Perform MHRS calculations and contribute to safety, quality and risk mitigation
• Support KPI tracking, training and continuous improvement of engineering practices
• Prepare equipment data sheets and bid evaluations for electrical equipment

Skills

Electrical engineering

Interdisciplinary coordination

Effective communication

Cost optimization

Project coordination

Education

MTech/ME in Electrical Engineering

BTech/BE in Electrical Engineering

Tools

ETAP

DIALux

AutoCAD

Job description

How will you CONTRIBUTE and GROW?

The Principal Engineer is part of the hierarchical organization, reporting directly to the Head of the Department as direct discipline superior. Principal Engineer is having 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. 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.

General:

• Participates in the development and implementation of engineering practices, workflows and procedures; recommends and implements resulting specs and procedures.
• Participates in reviews of work activities and projects; monitors workflow.

Consults with and makes recommendations to SME and Project Management Teams.

• Controls key parameters (KPIs), benchmarks and efficiency figures to be applied in estimating equipment, material and man-hours.
• Contributes to optimization of engineering practices, workflows and procedures based on collected KPIs.
• Coordinates and participates in the training programs for Engineers and Designers in the department.

Project execution

• Ensures compliance to 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 WBS elements within allotted man-hours and schedule dates.
• Contributes to implementation of safety relevant principles, standards, rules and procedures.
• Manages the technical procurement activities for various types of equipment.
• Reviews and approves Vendor documents applicable for the Discipline.
• Attends to inspections as per requirement of the inspection department
• Site assistance through replying to site queries.
• Able to perform MHRS calculations using Discipline calculation tool.

Technical Community

• Participates in the development of Discipline related technical standards, specifications and design criteria.

HSE, QA/QC

• 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.

DOMAIN KNOWLEDGE

• Leads & coordinates Electrical Engineering for Projects. Has wide discipline knowledge; good coordination skill with all the other Engineering disciplines, engineering sub-contractors, vendors and construction teams.
• Review of client ITB and provide clarifications / deviations for such proposals, Prepare of estimates wrt Cost, Man-hours
• Technical Strength in Various Electrical Calculations such as Power Balance, Cable Sizing, Earthing Calculations, Lighting Calculations, Lightning Protection Calculations using various tools such as excel based & ETAP, DIALUX etc.
• Electrical System studies in ETAP for Short Circuit, Load Flow & Motor Starting
• Protection Relay coordination study
• Experience in preparation of Cable list & interconnection schedule
• Technical Strength in Layout engineering - Hazardous Area Layouts, Cable Routing (above &underground), Conduit & Tray Sizing, Earthing/Grounding Layouts, Lighting Layouts & Circuiting, Lightning Protection Layouts
• Experience in working & Co-ordinating with International Vendor
• Inquiry & Purchase requisition, Equipment data sheet, Technical bid evaluation for Electrical equipment

Are you a MATCH?

Experience - 15- 18 Years of experience in EPC or Detail design engineering company in the engineering discipline for execution of projects in various sectors like Oil & Gas, Air Separation, Energy, Refining, Petrochemicals

Education: MTech /ME , BTech / BE - Electrical Engineering

Experience in Inspections of Various Electrical Items ex Motors, Switchgears, UPS, DC systems etc.

Vendor Drawing Review of Transformer, MV & LV switchgears, Capacitor Bank, UPS & DC system, Soft Starter, LV VFD, MV & LV Motor, Heater, DG, Cable

Familiar with International Standards like NFPA, NEC, IEEE, ANSI, IEC, IS .

Anticipation and Identification of risks and opportunities and recommend mitigations during execution

Effective Communication skills with proactive coordination to manage interdiscipline workflow.

Ability to identify cost optimization opportunities during project execution .

Tool proficiency - ETAP, DIALux, Auto-CAD

Experience in VSI & LCI Soft Starter, LV VFD

Experience in working on Large Machines 5 MW and above Induction, Synchronous Motors & Turbines

Our Differences make our Performance

At Air Liquide, we are committed to build a diverse and inclusive workplace that embraces the diversity of our employees, our customers, patients, community stakeholders and cultures across the world.

We welcome and consider applications from all qualified applicants, regardless of their background. We strongly believe a diverse organization opens up opportunities for people to express their talent, both individually and collectively and it helps foster our ability to innovate by living our fundamentals, acting for our success and creating an engaging environment in a changing world.