Project Engineering Manager - Solar ( Chennai Location)

Roles and Responsibilities

Reports to (Job – Role): Head of Engineering

Reportee (Job – Role): Design Lead (Primary), Design Lead (Secondary), & Vendor Engineering Lead

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

Experience: 12+ years (Must have experience predominantly in design aspects of Substation Construction and leading Engineers in execution of multiple projects)

Objective:

As a Project Engineering Manager, the person shall ensure that the engineering activities of the project takes place within stipulated time (w.r.t. both quality & cost). She / He shall ensure the adherence to L2 schedule during execution of the project. She / He shall work on optimizations / alternate proposals / solutions for quick delivery of the project with a positive margin.

She / He shall perform inter-discipline coordination (Civil, Structural, MEP & Instrumentation). The PEM shall perform work allocation and man-hours allocation of different roles in the project.

Key Responsibilities:

• Coordinate with Project Planning Manager and ensure deliveries are aligned to Project Schedule

• Conduct regular project review meetings and ensure adherence to schedule

• Conduct internal review meetings for resource optimization, allocation and enhance productivity

• Review of designs, calculations & drawings and ensure their timely submissions after obtaining approvals from customer

• Clarification of issues w.r.t. vendors and ensuring timely delivery of materials at project site

• Capable of Multitasking and deliver multiple things on time

• Clarification to inter – discipline Managers for sorting out issues w.r.t. design aspects of the equipment

• Enable & review accurate estimation in terms of quantity for submission of Bill of Materials

• Review critical issues and procedural delays w.r.t. design aspects of equipment and extend support to Site Execution teams

• Ensure BIM implementation in the projects

• Settle procurement issues and extend support to Supply Chain management for ensuring order finalization for Vendor Engineering

• Extend support for BOQ, review of pre-bid offers and technical submissions & provide post-tender clarifications (after clarification from vendors) to the contracts team

• Lead and manage team of Design Leads, Design Engineers and Draughtss persons

• Review Vendor evaluation (w.r.t. technical specification requirement of the client)

• Extend support to Site Execution Teams for commercial issues & processing of bills

• Ensure issuance of Manufacturing Clearance by undertaking and facilitating necessary communication with suppliers

• Communicate & clarify deliverable list from the client and obtaining resource requirement for project

Technical Expertise:

Knowledge about Land based Solar power plants from 50MW to 2GW for Utilities including combined plants with Wind / Solar and Storage systems, Floating Solar power plants of varying sizes, Possible expansion to floating wind power plants in future, Rooftop Solar system,- Battery Storage, Microgrids

Knowledge in Fixed Tilt technology, tracker tech (Single row / multiple row / Dual axis), Seasonal Tilt, Poly-crystalline models, Thin film solar modules, bifacial solar modules. Central Inverter & String inverters. Knowledge about voltage conversion & stepping up. Familiarity with Solar Power generation & Storage. Electrical Substations, Transmission Lines, Civil & Structural, Drawings of civil infrastructure, Mechanical utilities (ventilation systems, HVAC, FFPH, Module Cleaning System (RO tech), Instrumentation (SCADA, SAS).The PEM is required to understand and interpret the contractual technical requirements and facilitate the Project Teams as and when required. The PEM shall have good interviewing skills.

Operating Network:

Internally: Head of Engineering, Inter-discipline Heads, Project Execution team, Supply Chain Management team, Quality team, Contracts team

Externally: Customers (Engineering team), Client (Project Management team), Vendors (Engineering & Quality team)

Key Value Drivers

• On-Time Delivery (Schedule Adherence)

• Approval of SLA for Engineering Services on time

• Man-Hour Management for team

• Support for Monthly Invoicing

• Savings Generated (Quality & Cost Optimization)

• Skill Development

• Digitalization

• Successor Development

• Standardization (Eliminating Inefficiency)

• Productivity (Man-Hours allotted)

• Strike Rate of Bids Submitted (If Applicable)

Software Skills Required:

General awareness of MS Office.

Desirable awareness of ETAP, PSCAD & CYMGRD and Project Planning Tools

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

Thanks & Regards

Sreeram

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BVR people consulting

#16/4, Kamaraj Nagar Main Road,

Avadi, Chennai – 600 071.

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E-mail : sreeram@bvrpc.com