AC Lead

Larsen & Toubro; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 260,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

Larsen & Toubro is hiring a Design Lead (Electrical - AC) in Riyadh to review and execute engineering activities for AC SLDs, layouts, earthing, cable sizing, and transformer sizing for Solar PV plants. The role includes BIM model support and inter-department coordination across Civil/Structural, Instrumentation, and MEP.

The Design Lead will lead a team of design engineers and drafters, ensure on-time deliveries within budget, and support pre-bid engineering through commissioning and warranty,

Qualifications

• Bachelor degree in Electrical or Electrical & Electronics.
• 10+ years in design of Solar PV power plants or power distribution.
• Experience leading design teams and coordinating with Civil/Structural, Instrumentation, MEP.
• Knowledge of national and international codes and standards.

Responsibilities

• Timely delivery of engineering drawings and documents.
• Coordinate with multiple disciplines for inter-departmental checks.
• Review design and sizing calculations of electrical equipment.
• Provide support to site execution and pre-bid activities.
• Lead a team of design engineers and draughtsmen.
• Review vendor deliverables and approvals.
• Ensure alignment to project schedule.
• Check pre-award evaluation of vendors.
• Support during commissioning and warranty periods.
• Coordinate with Supply Chain Management.
• Inspect equipment from vendors.

Skills

Electrical design

Leadership

Cross-disciplinary coordination

Sizing calculations

Education

BE/BTech Electrical or Electrical & Electronics Engineering

Tools

Dialux

MS Office

ETAP

Job description

As Design Lead (Electrical - AC), the person shall be capable of reviewing & executing Engineering Activities like AC SLD, Building Layouts, Earthing Layouts, Cable Sizing Calculations, Transformer Sizing, LT / HT Breakers of Solar PV Power Plants. He shall facilitate the modellers in development of BIM 3D Model for PV Solar Power plants. In addition, she / he has to coordinate with other departments including Inter-departmental checks covering Civil/ Structural, Instrumentation, MEP and others. The Design Lead (Electrical AC) shall be required to provide support for the engineering activities covering the full cycle of works from pre-bid engineering to support during commissioning and warranty periods and to extend support to site team. She / He shall lead a team of Design Engineers and Draughts Persons to manage the Engineering activities within budget, deliver on time and maintaining a high quality of engineering.

Key Responsibilities

• Timely Delivery of Engineering Drawings & Documents
• Ensure deliveries are aligned to Project Schedule
• Review drawings by Design Engineers & Draughts Persons. Checking of design & sizing calculations of engineering electrical equipment and obtaining approvals from the client
• Review of Vendor deliverables pertaining to Engineering
• Capable of Multitasking and deliver multiple things on time
• Estimate and Plan man-hour requirements
• Review BOQ and submit to contracts team and providing technical clarifications
• Coordinate with multiple disciplines for ensuring inter-departmental checks
• Provide support & clarifications to the Site Execution team
• Check pre-award evaluation of vendors (w.r.t. technical specifications requirement of the client) and forward the validation document to Supply Chain Management
• Inspect equipment from the finalized vendor after submission of validation document of the vendorClarify issues w.r.t. the design & requirements of the client to the Site Execution Team
• Collect inputs for project details (plot details, feeder arrangements etc.) from client & Project Engineering Manager
• Coordinating with Operations team and informing Design specifications for obtaining approval
• Collect inputs for project details (General Arrangement Drawings) from Vendors
• Check deliverables such as Equipment layouts, Cable Routing Layout, Cable Tray Layout, Earthing Layout, lighting Layout, Lightning Protection Layout
• Provide support to Electrical DC, Civil /Structural for reviewing Vendor drawings
• Submit requirement of man-hours for undertaking & reviewing of design & drawings of the project

Software Skills Required

• General awareness of Dialux and MS Office.
• Desirable awareness of ETAP.

Technical Expertise

• The Design Lead (Electrical AC) is required to have an overall knowledge of equipment layouts and necessary calculations.
• The Design Lead (Electrical AC) should also have detailed knowledge of Solar PV Power Plants. She / he should have the understanding of engineering activities covering SLD Preparation, Layout Engineering, Earthing, Cable Routing, Lighting, Lightning Protection, Cable Tray Routing etc. She/he should be capable of performing design & sizing calculations of Busbar, UPS, Battery, LT Transformer, Earthing Conductor, calculations (Short circuit force.). The Design Lead (Electrical AC) is required to have knowledge on National and International Codes and Standards.
• The Design Lead (Electrical AC) is required to understand and interpret the contractual technical requirements and facilitate the Project Teams as and when required.
• In addition, the Design Lead (Electrical AC) should also have an overall understanding of the inter-disciplinary (Civil & Structural, Mechanical and Instrumentation) design aspects of electrical equipment.

Qualification & Experience

• B.E. / B. Tech., Electrical / Electrical & Electronics Engineering
• Minimum 10 years (Must have experience in design aspects of Solar PV Power Plants / Power Distribution Projects)