AC Design Lead — Solar PV Power Plants

L&T Hydrocarbon Engineering; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 320,000 - 460,000; Full time

Job summary

L&T Hydrocarbon Engineering is seeking a Design Lead Electrical - AC in Riyadh to steer design, review layouts, and lead a team of engineers and drafters for solar PV projects.

Responsibilities include delivering drawings on schedule, coordinating with multiple disciplines, and ensuring vendor and client requirements are met while maintaining high quality throughout the project lifecycle.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or equal field.
• Minimum 10 years of design experience in Solar PV or power distribution.
• Experience leading design teams and delivering ahead of schedule.

Responsibilities

• Deliver engineering drawings and documents on time per project schedule.
• Review design and sizing calculations; secure client approvals.
• Evaluate vendor deliverables; plan man-hours; provide clarifications to contracts.
• Coordinate with Civil, Structural, Instrumentation and other teams.
• Support site execution with technical clarifications and drawings.
• Assess pre-award vendor evaluations against client specs.
• Inspect vendor equipment after validation and acceptance.
• Clarify client design requirements to field teams.
• Gather inputs from client and PM for project details.
• Coordinate with operations for design approvals and GA drawing inputs.
• Verify deliverables: equipment layouts, routing, earthing, lighting, protection layouts.
• Assist Electrical, DC, Civil, Structural reviews of vendor drawings.
• Estimate man-hours for design and drawing reviews.

Skills

Electrical design

AC SLD

Earthing layouts

Cable sizing

Transformer sizing

LT breakers

BIM 3D modeling

Inter-departmental checks

Project coordination

Dialux

Education

BE/BTech Electrical

Tools

Dialux

ETAP

MS Office

Job description

L&T Hydrocarbon Engineering is seeking a Design Lead Electrical - AC in Riyadh to steer design, review layouts, and lead a team of engineers and drafters for solar PV projects.

Responsibilities include delivering drawings on schedule, coordinating with multiple disciplines, and ensuring vendor and client requirements are met while maintaining high quality throughout the project lifecycle.