Lead Engineer - Primary Design

Job description / Role

Role Summary

The Lead Engineer - Primary Design is the technical guarantor of proper performance of design works conducted in his/her field of activity, including committed design budget, deadline and quality in line with customer agreements.
He/she plans all design activities, manages detailed execution progress, delivers required engineering documentation associated with concerned activity as per customer specifications, requirement and internal standards.

Essential Responsibilities

Project Management
- scope of work & time schedule
- Establish, based on tender and contract analysis, project strategy the list of documents to produce for his/her field of activity
- Time delivery mastering
- Ensures on-time delivery of design, including Partner documents, to stakeholders with suitable quality
- Anticipate and mitigate delivery issues and recommend change
- Lead his/her design team
- Manage and monitor detailed execution progress and short-term plan
- Request from PEM or PM required technical coordination meetings with partners or key suppliers if & when appropriate, to synchronize respective designs
- Give necessary input for management / monitoring detailed execution progress and short-term plan
- Resources
- On monthly basis, measure design physical progress on relevant studies, and provides PEM with relevant data for evaluation of ETTC
- Manage design time spent in man hours on relevant activities

Customer relationship
- Analyse customer technical requirements
- Ensure compliance to customer requirements
- Represents customer interests in the design decisions at PM request
- Support PEM or PM to Manage customer comments
- Attend Customer technical meetings, upon PEM or PM request
- Support PEM or PM on partner's coordination regarding customer technical comments on their scope

Document & configuration management
- Manages & tracks evolution of input data
- Track customer comments and answers, along with document resubmission)
- Ensures conformance of material with specification & documentation
- Manage return status of project documentation (approved, commented, rejected ..)
- Tracks & manages identified or potential deviations
- Manages evolution of customer requirements & associated impacts

Design expediting
- Participates to issuance of technical specifications and basic document to enable procurement of main items and plant detailed design
- Prepares and or coordinates elaboration of document, calculation, Simulation, to validate technical options proposed to the customer
- Looks for cost optimization in all design phases and mainly during basic design
- Ensures technical consistency of design area and associated performance level
- Obtains or provides support to insure compliance to technical \"state of the art\" and applicable standards & regulations
- Checks documents
- Provides technical assistance to sourcing upon request
- Prepares subcontracting files (Scope, Deliverables, Inputs, Schedule)
- Checks design subcontractor deliverables
- Proposes review meeting with subcontractors
- Contributes to OMM & As-built issuance

Process & Tools
- Deploys Engineering tools (CAD, PDM/DMS,) as per strategy
- Consulted for the elaboration of the Project Design review plan
- Propose co-engineering platform with partners when relevant
- Integrate EHS requirements based on project Strategy, and deploy HAZID (Hazard identification) sessions at different project phases
- Apply Design subcontracting process supported by PEM or PM
- Implement KPIs defined on engineering process for medium set project
- Issue nonconformance reports (FAT, Site)
- Manage nonconformance reports upon issuance

Sourcing & Procurement, Supplier/Partner management
- Support Sourcing and Procurement in the definition of the Supplier's list according to the project strategy
- In line with general time schedule, participate to elaboration of supply request : specification & BOQ
- Manage technical interface with sub suppliers & partners, prepare input data , check consistency
- Request for technical coordination meetings with partners or key suppliers if & when appropriate
- Follow design subcontracting process
- Ensure the technical follow up (review, comment, approval) of the supplier's documentations
- Interface with Construction

Requirements

Qualifications/Requirements:
- University degree in Electrical Engineering
- More than 8 years of project engineering experience within the EPC sector with with Transmission & Distribution industry focus.
- Working Experience in EHV/HV for Dubai Electricity & Water Authority (DEWA) projects (direct and developer projects) and familiar with their standards and process; DEWA approval is a strong advantage.
- Familiar with project technical management processes, preferably in a multi-disciplinary team's context with multiple interfaces
- Experience in managing subcontracted design work package
- Willingness to work in different locations for short or medium period and to travel worldwide.

Desired Characteristics:
- Strong Oral and Written communication skills in English
- Strong interpersonal and leadership skills
- Working Knowledge in AutoCAD/ REVIT and BIM.
- Knowledge of Engineering tools and software (like Cyme Grig. ETAP etc.)

About Us:
GE (NYSE:GE) drives the world forward by tackling its biggest challenges. By combining world-class engineering with software and analytics, GE helps the world work more efficiently, reliably, and safely. GE people are global, diverse and dedicated, operating with the highest integrity and passion to fulfill GE's mission and deliver for our customers.

About the Company

GE is a diversified technology, media and financial services company, dedicated to creating products that make life better. From aircraft engines and power generation to financial services, medical imaging, television programming and oil and gas, GE operates in more than 100 countries and employs over 300,000 people worldwide.

GE's Oil & Gas business is a leader in the development and delivery of advanced product and service offerings for the global oil and gas industry. As a consequence of the rapid expansion of its technology base, GE's Oil & Gas is capable of addressing the largest and most complex engineering and application challenges entirely from its own worldwide resources. So whether it's the world's largest LNG compression trains, re-injection of high sulfur gas, enhancing the safety and productivity of the world's oil and gas pipelines, or equipment for the production of oil and gas from harsh environments, GE is leading the charge.