Project Engineering Manager

Job Description Summary

The Project Engineering Manager oversees engineering activities of the project considering the Quality/Cost/Time Delivery criteria.
She/He plans overall design activities, manages project design budget, implements design change process, supervises, and coordinates all engineering activities required to execute the project, whether done in house or by suppliers/subcontractors, and ensures technical coordination of the Grid Solutions project. She/He warrants that optimized technical solutions (cost effective solution, ease of installation and operation of the systems) in line with Customer expectation are implemented by project engineering team and Partners, and that documentation are delivered as per project general time schedule.

• Manage global time schedule of concerned engineering activities, check coherency of links between engineering activities and other project functions activities (procurement, construction, commissioning) and organize follow up of critical activities of the project or of his/her discipline.
• Responsible for issuing consolidation of provisional drawing list of the project or of his/her work package, integrating submission dates.
• Plan and manage delivery time of technical interfaces with his/her work package, put in place exchange interface sheets with partners, customer, and third-party contractors.
• Ensure on-time delivery of design to stakeholders with suitable quality including Partner documents anticipate and mitigate delivery issues of concerned activities.
• Manage time schedule for his/her work package engineering activities in close collaboration with the planner.
• He/she is responsible for relevant co-engineering sessions with other disciplines, main partners, and key suppliers.
• Ensure the transverse technical coordination between the parties.
• Ensure proper global design freeze.
• Follow the division of responsibility matrix and understand the limits of supply.
• Coordinate technical interfaces between project partners (internal and external).
• Manage and harmonize the technical documentation.
• Supports and participates to continuous improvement actions for a better engineering efficiency, delivers documents on time and with the requested quality.
• Ensure that a proper technical risk analysis is conducted in case of innovation.
• Manage the planning interface of engineering milestones between partners.
• Lead and coordinate design teams.
• Follow the engineering budget and identify potential savings and highlight to Project manager all motivated situation requiring extra budget.
• Manage design workload plan.
• Participate and contribute to the project multidisciplinary design reviews according to the procedures and the project strategy.
• Organize and manage disciplinary design reviews.
• Participate to project strategy elaboration with PM.
• Analyze customer technical requirements, prepare and or consolidate clause by clause analysis and ensure compliance to Customer requirements through technical queries, identify, track, manage potential exceptions.
• Manage customer comments.
• Request/attend Customer technical meetings when needed/upon request.
• Coordinate with partners regarding customer technical comments on their scope.
• Validate design throughout customer acceptance.
• Prepare or review technical specifications and supplier's documents to enable procurement of materials and substation detailed design.
• Deploy Engineering tools associated to his/her work package as per strategy.
• Integrate EHS requirements based on project strategy and deploy HAZID (Hazard identification) sessions at different project phases.
• Implement KPIs defined on engineering process and provide support to elaborate project reporting.
• Organize input data acquisition for O&MM and as-built documents.
• Comply with Quality Procedures, work instructions and Processes.
• Provide data and inputs for project Return of Experience meetings.
• Implement design freeze and EHS in design.

• Degree in Electrical Engineering,
• 5+ years of Engineering activities as lead Primary Design Engineer in EPC type environment in Transmission and Distribution, Power Generation or Oil&Gas Industry.
• Ensure compliance with relevant international standards such as IEC, IEEE, ANSI, NEMA, and CIGRE guidelines.
• Ensure compliance with regional regulations such as Saudi Electricity Company (SEC) standards, Electricity & Co-Generation Regulatory Authority (ECRA) regulations, and Saudi Arabian grid codes, SASO standards, Transmission Material & System Specifications (TMSS), Transmission Engineering Standard Practices (TESP), Transmission Construction Practices (TCP).
• Interface with Saudi utility providers, and clients to align project deliverables with national grid requirements.
• Hands-on experience in HV GIS/AIS substations (132kV, 220kV, 400kV and above)
• Successful experience in project technical management in a multi-disciplinary team's context including multiple interfaces and with products coming from several countries.
• Knowledge of project execution risks and financial processes.
• Willingness to work in different locations for short or medium period and to travel worldwide.
• Experience of team building as lead engineer.
• Strong communication and persuasion skills.
• Fluency in English to communicate with international clients and suppliers as well as the internal functions (interview will be in English).
• Fluency in Arabic to communicate with local clients in native language.
• Able to live and work in Riyadh.

• Experience in High Voltage Substation Primary Design including:
  • Substation General Layout Design,
  • Civil Guide Design,
  • Substation Earthing System Design,
  • Substation Lightning Protection System Design,
  • HV GIS Building/MV Building/Control and Protection Building Arrangement,
  • Substation Steel Structure Design Review,
  • Electrical Safety Clearance Review,
  • GIS and AIS HV Equipment Design Review (PTR, SSTR, GIS, CB, CT, VT, DS, SA, LT, HV Cable and Accessories, Insulators and Fittings, HV Conductors, HV Connectors),
  • MV Equipment Design Review,
  • HV and MV Cable Routing Design.
• General knowledge of Power System Equipment factories and products through FATs and site visits.
• Ability to communicate with multiple departments.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze and resolve problems.
• Experience of team building as lead engineer.
• Skilled at influencing and relationship building.
• Demonstrated presentation skills and ability to succinctly communicate complex messages.
• Project management skills.
• Demonstrates ownership & accountability, judgment and decision making, influences & inspires team, creates a vision and strategy, and has passion for the role.
• KSA National preferred