Technical lead - Transmission line design

SgurrEnergy; Maharashtra; On-site; INR 2,500,000 - 4,500,000; Full time

Job summary

SgurrEnergy India is seeking a senior Transmission Line engineering leader to act as the technical authority across TL projects from concept to construction. You will define design basis, review routing, and ensure compliance with regulatory requirements.

This role requires hands-on experience with PLS-CADD, PLS-Tower, PLS-Pole and STAAD Pro, plus the ability to coordinate with clients, EPCs and internal teams to deliver safe, reliable and cost-effective transmission solutions.

Qualifications

• Experience defining and governing TL design basis and methodologies.
• Ability to interpret topographical surveys and plan drawings for routing.
• Strong understanding of electrical clearances, sag–tension, and constructability.

Responsibilities

• Act as the technical authority for TL engineering across the project lifecycle.
• Define and maintain design basis, philosophies, calculation methods, and standards.
• Provide leadership for route alignment, survey interface, and validation of surveys.
• Govern electrical design: conductors, ground wire, phase config, insulation, sag–tension.
• Lead PLS-CADD tower spotting and span optimisation with safety and cost balance.
• Define and approve tower design criteria and load cases.
• Review tower analysis outputs and ensure readiness for prototype testing.
• Coordinate foundation design with geotechnical inputs.
• Approve engineering deliverables and documentation with traceability.
• Lead design reviews, workshops, risk assessments; mitigation measures.
• Drive value engineering while maintaining safety and compliance.
• Interface with clients, EPCs, PMCs and internal teams.
• Support bid activities with scope and risk estimation.

Skills

EHV/UHV TL design

Load cases & reliability

Stakeholder management

Technical leadership

Tools

PLS-CADD

PLS-Tower

PLS-Pole

STAAD Pro

AutoCAD

Job description

Requirements

• Act as the overall technical authority for Transmission Line (TL) engineering, responsible for defining, governing and approving all technical aspects of transmission line projects across the complete project lifecycle.
• Establish, implement and maintain the Transmission Line Design Basis, engineering philosophies, calculation methodologies and standard practices, ensuring alignment with national and international standards, regulations and client-specific technical requirements.
• Provide technical leadership for route alignment and survey interface, including review and validation of topographical surveys, longitudinal profiles and plan drawings, ensuring routing decisions adequately address electrical clearances, ROW constraints, environmental considerations, access, constructability and lifecycle risks.
• Govern the electrical design of transmission lines, including selection and approval of conductors, ground wire / OPGW, phase configuration, insulation strings and geometry, and ensuring sag–tension philosophy adequately considers temperature effects, creep behaviour and code-mandated reliability conditions.
• Lead and approve PLS-CADD based tower spotting and span optimisation, ensuring appropriate tower type selection, sectioning philosophy and angle distribution, while balancing structural safety, foundation feasibility, constructability and overall project cost optimisation.
• Define and approve tower structural design criteria, including reliability levels, governing load cases and load combinations covering normal, maximum wind, minimum temperature, broken wire (phase-wise and ground wire), angle deviation and security conditions.
• Review and approve tower structural analysis and design outputs, including results from PLS-Tower, PLS-Pole or equivalent tools, member sizing, slenderness checks, utilisation ratios, connection philosophy and detailing approach, ensuring readiness for prototype tower testing where applicable.
• Coordinate and govern foundation design approach in conjunction with geotechnical inputs, including interpretation of soil investigation reports, selection of appropriate foundation types (pad & chimney, pile, rock or special foundations), and validation of foundation loads derived from tower analysis.
• Oversee preparation, review and approval of engineering deliverables and documentation, including design calculation reports, plan & profile drawings, tower schedules, foundation drawings, stringing charts, erection drawings and construction-ready documentation, ensuring accuracy, clarity, revision control and traceability.
• Lead internal and external design reviews, technical workshops and risk assessments, identifying design, constructability and execution risks at early stages and defining appropriate mitigation measures.
• Drive value engineering and optimisation initiatives across line routing, tower spotting, tower and foundation design, without compromising safety, reliability or statutory compliance.
• Act as the technical escalation point for execution-stage support, including resolution of site-driven design changes, non-conformances, deviations, construction-stage technical queries, and finalisation of as-built engineering documentation.
• Interface effectively with clients, utilities, EPC contractors, PMCs and internal multidisciplinary teams, ensuring technical alignment, timely resolution of comments and smooth progression of engineering deliverables.
• Support bid and tender-stage engineering activities, including review of technical specifications, definition of engineering scope and assumptions, estimation of engineering effort and identification of technical risks impacting cost and schedule.

Technical & Domain Skills

• Strong expertise in EHV / UHV transmission line design (110 kV to 765 kV, HVDC preferred), with exposure to utility-scale and complex corridor projects.
• In-depth understanding of transmission line load cases and reliability conditions, tower configurations and foundation interfaces, and electrical clearances including sag–tension behaviour and construction practices.
• Hands-on working knowledge of PLS-CADD, PLS-Tower, PLS-Pole and STAAD Pro, with the ability to interpret analysis outputs and design results.

Professional & Leadership Skills

• Strong technical judgment and sound engineering decision-making capability.
• Proven ability to manage multiple stakeholders and complex project interfaces.
• Clear, structured communication with internal teams, clients and contractors.
• High level of ownership, delivery discipline and quality orientation.

Automation & Productivity Skills

• Ability to define and drive automation and standardisation strategies across transmission line engineering workflows to improve productivity, consistency and quality.
• Experience in establishing standard design templates, calculation formats and tool configurations for PLS-CADD, PLS-Tower and AutoCAD to ensure uniform application across projects.
• Capability to identify high-effort or repetitive engineering activities and guide the team in implementing automation, reusable libraries and optimised workflows.
• Strong focus on delivery efficiency, quality control and scalability of engineering outputs in line with business growth objectives.