Design Lead (Primary) – Substation (Electrical)

Reports to (Job Role) : Project Engineering Manager Substation

Reportee (Job Role) : Design Engineer, Draughtsperson

Minimum Qualification : B.E. / B. Tech., Electrical / Electrical & Electronics Engineering

Experience : 7 10 years (Predominantly in Primary Design Engineering activities)

Objective: As Design Lead (Primary), the person shall be capable of reviewing & executing Primary Engineering Activities for AIS / GIS Substation Projects covering multiple geographical domains. He must have good knowledge in Layout Engineering in Substation Projects. He shall facilitate the modellers in development of BIM 3D Model for Substations. In addition, she / he has to coordinate with other departments including Inter-departmental checks covering, Electrical, Civil/ Structural, MEP and others. The Design Lead (Primary) 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 Draughtspersons 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

Seek and obtain spatial requirements and details of cut-outs and openings from the Design Lead (Secondary) and incorporate into relevant Drawings

Review primary drawings by Design Engineers & Draughtspersons & checking of design & sizing calculations of primary engineering electrical equipment and obtaining approvals from the client

Review of Vendor deliverables pertaining to Primary 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 vendor

Clarify 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

Sensitivity: LNT Construction Internal Use

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 secondary team for reviewing Vendor drawings

Submit requirement of man-hours for undertaking & reviewing of design & drawings of the project

Technical Expertise

The Design Lead (Primary) is required to have an overall knowledge of equipment layouts and necessary calculations.

The Design Lead (Primary) should also have detailed knowledge of Substation equipment and their Layouts. Furthermore, she / he should have the understanding of primary engineering activities covering SLD Preparation, Layout Engineering, Earthing, Cable Routing, Lighting, Lightning Protection, Cable Tray Routing etc. He should be capable of performing design & sizing calculations of Busbar, UPS, DG, LT Transformer, Earthing Conductor, calculations (Short circuit force, Sag tension, CCC etc.). The Design Lead (Primary) is required to have knowledge on National and International Codes and Standards.

The Design Lead (Primary) is required to understand and interpret the contractual technical requirements and facilitate the Project Teams as and when required.

In addition, the Design Lead (Primary) should also have an overall understanding of the inter[1]disciplinary (Civil & Structural, Mechanical and Instrumentation) design aspects of electrical equipment.

Operating Network

Internally: Head of Engineering, Project Engineering Managers, Design Engineers, Draughts person, Site Execution team & Supply Chain Management team

Externally: Clients (Site Execution & Engineering team), Consultants & Vendors

Key Value Drivers

On Time Delivery

Productivity Enhancement

Digitalization

Risk Identification and Mitigation

Cost Control

Quality Control

Customer Satisfaction (Customer Service Report)

Optimization of Layouts

Incorporation of Standardization (Eliminating inefficiencies)

Software Skills Required:

• General awareness of Dialux and MS Office.
• Sensitivity: LNT Construction Internal Use
• Desirable awareness of ETAP, PSCAD & CYMGRD

Behavioural Attributes:

Market Insight

o Market Foresight

o Leveraging Opportunities

Customer at Core

o Sustainable Partnership

o Anticipating Needs

o Customer Centricity

Disruptive Innovation

o Challenge Traditional Approaches

o Generate Innovative Solutions

o Take Calculated Risks

Collaborate and Influence

o Internal Stakeholders

o External Stakeholders