Project Engineer - Civil

Linxon; Chennai District; On-site; INR 1,600,000 - 2,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Career Progression

Diversity & Inclusion

Job summary

Linxon in Chennai, India, is seeking a Project Engineer - Civil to lead civil design of substation projects, including AIS & GIS foundations, structures, and transmission elements. The role requires strong coordination with site teams, clients, and subcontractors to ensure quality, safety, and on-time delivery.

You will work with tools like STAAD Pro, SAP 2000, and AutoCAD on multiple projects, including HV equipment design and site grading.

Qualifications

• 6-10 years of experience in substation design
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in civil engineering
• Complete design knowledge on civil design and detail engineering of AIS & GIS substation foundations and structures up to 500kV
• Knowledge of ANSI standards for substation civil engineering is desirable
• Experience in UK utilities is required
• Proficient with ANSI units (feet, inches, pounds)
• Experience in HV substations civil and structural design and detailing
• Experience with base, detail civil, structural design in GIS or AIS substations
• Experience with site grading, foundations, BOM preparation
• Experience coordinating with site, customers, consultants and contractors

Responsibilities

• Perform engineering assignments using standard techniques and procedures
• Develop tender engineering deliverables quickly with quality
• Ensure completeness and correct functionality of subsystems
• Coordinate with engineers, subcontractors and suppliers on technical interfaces
• Collaborate with site teams during construction
• Prepare technical documentation and input to requisitions
• Contribute to design reviews and risk registers
• Provide input for close-out reports and lessons learned

Skills

Substation design

Civil engineering

HV equipment

Project coordination

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Civil Engineering

Master’s degree in Civil Engineering

Tools

STAAD Pro

SAP 2000

SAFE Foundation Analysis

L pile

L Shaft

RISA

AutoCAD

PLS CAD

PLS tower

PLS pole

Job description

Job Description

Job Title: Project Engineer - Civil

Job Location: Chennai, India

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 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 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.
• Solves 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-ordinates clarify with engineers, sub-contractors and supplier’s 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:

• 6-10 years of experience in substation design with focus on HV Equipment expertise and overall system design.
• Bachelor’s Degree / master’s degree in civil engineering.
• Complete Design knowledge on Civil design and detail engineering of AIS & GIS substation foundation, Structures up to 500kV and transmission line design for various voltage levels.
• 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 and transmission line for UK utilities is required.
• Well-versed handling of ANSI units like – Feet and inches, Pounds etc is preferred.
• 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, L Shaft, RISA, AUTOCAD applications and tools.
• Should have experience in Transmission line design using PLS CAD, PLS tower, PLS pole etc.,
• Understanding of electronic records management systems.
• High attention to detail and quality.
• Pile foundation design skills.
• Site / Grading development grading plan, section, details and cut & fill quantities table
• Site drainage layout preparation.
• Final finish surfacing plan, section and details
• Knowledge on ANSI standards for substation civil engineering is desired.
• Looking for Civil engineer who has experience in UK utilities

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
• 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.

Worker Type

Employee

Job Type

Regular

At Linxon, we seek to hire individuals with diverse characteristics, backgrounds and perspectives. We strongly believe that world-class talent makes no distinctions based on gender, ethnic or national origin, sexual identity and orientation, age, religion or disability, but enriches itself through these differences.