Engineering Manager

Job description / Role

Location

Dubai, UAE, or possibility to be based from Saudi Arabia or India.

Employment type: Permanent

Turner Lovell is recruiting an engineering manager to lead the tender phase for large HVDC projects (including offshore platforms). Our client is an OEM who are expanding the team within the region. You will be the primary technical point of contact for the customer, coordinating global engineering inputs to deliver a compliant, competitive, and risk-aware bid on time and to budget. This role can be based in UAE, Saudi Arabia, India, Egypt, or turnkey. This is a fantastic opportunity to join a growing team and optimistic sales pipeline of HVDC projects in the region.

Key responsibilities

• Own the technical scope during tender: plan, schedule, quality, and cost.
• Act as the customer's technical interface; drive clarifications and compliance.
• Define and specify HVDC equipment and interfaces (e.g., converter transformers, valves, reactors/filters, GIS/AIS, CT/VT, IED/protection panels, AC/DC auxiliaries); produce data sheets, BoMs, and specs.
• Prepare tender deliverables (SLDs, layouts, compliance matrices, assumptions/exceptions) and secure a clean handover to delivery teams.
• Coordinate control & protection, plant configuration, electrical design, and system/performance studies to optimise safety, reliability, installability, and O&M.
• Lead design trade-offs and target-costing; manage risks, issues, and change.
• Ensure alignment with standards and requirements (IEC/IEEE; cybersecurity such as IEC 62351).

Requirements

• Bachelor's in Electrical Engineering (Master's a plus).
• 10+ years in HVDC/grid solution integration; proven multi-disciplinary tender leadership.
• Successful completion of at least one HVDC project.
• Strong grasp of C&P hardware, plant configuration, electrical design, and system/performance studies.
• Excellent stakeholder and customer management; clear communicator.
• Fluent in English (Arabic an advantage); willing to travel approximately 20% internationally.

If you can turn complex HVDC requirements into clear, competitive tender solutions, apply now.