India Design Manager Lead Engineer

We are Sisco Jobs a recruitment consultancy based in Trichy Tamil Nadu. We are hiring on behalf of our client for the position of India Design Manager / Lead Engineer in Trichy Tamil Nadu. Our client is seeking a highly experienced engineering professional to lead an India-based multidisciplinary design team delivering high-voltage transmission and grid-infrastructure engineering for UK programmes. The position owns design integration technical governance quality programme interfaces and the issue of coordinated and independently checked engineering deliverables.

• Establish and manage project design plans deliverables schedules resource plans responsibility matrices and design assurance strategies.
  
• Lead multidisciplinary teams covering primary electrical protection/control/SCADA cable systems civil/structural and BIM/digital disciplines.
  
• Coordinate engineering activities across concept design detailed design and construction-support stages.
  
• Chair design reviews technical risk reviews interface meetings and constructability reviews while maintaining actions assumptions constraints and decision records.
  
• Ensure engineering designs are safe buildable maintainable and compliant with applicable UK requirements and IEC/BS/ENA standards.
  
• Control design inputs and outputs including calculations drawings specifications reports models schedules technical queries deviations and changes.
  
• Define checking and approval routes and ensure appropriate independent technical reviews are completed before deliverables are issued.
  
• Manage interfaces with UK stakeholders suppliers and construction/site teams while coaching engineers and developing repeatable engineering processes.
  

1. HV Substation & Transmission Engineering: Strong technical understanding of 400/220/132/33 kV environments.
   
2. Multidisciplinary Design Integration: Ability to coordinate electrical protection/control/SCADA cable civil/structural and BIM/digital engineering.
   
3. Design Assurance: Experience establishing checking independent review approval and technical assurance processes.
   
4. Technical Governance: Ability to control engineering inputs outputs technical risks queries deviations interfaces and changes.
   
5. Engineering Leadership: Capability to lead discipline engineers assess competency support recruitment and develop engineering processes.
   

• Experience delivering engineering for UK grid-infrastructure programmes.
  
• Strong exposure to constructability reviews and construction-support engineering.
  
• Experience supporting tenders work-package definition effort estimation and lessons-learned processes.
  

Candidates must have 15 years of relevant professional experience including substantial hands-on responsibility for multidisciplinary engineering deliverables. Experience must include high-voltage power transmission substations utilities or directly comparable critical infrastructure with senior responsibility for design coordination assurance and technical governance.

• Minimum: Typical Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering Power Engineering or a closely related engineering discipline.
  
• Preferred: Typical Postgraduate engineering qualification or relevant professional engineering credential.
  
• Additional: Typical Chartered/professional engineering status or relevant power-system/design-management certification would be advantageous.