Project Engineering Manager

Job Description SummaryThe 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 GE Vernova Grid Solutions projects. 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.
Project Engineering Manager is accountable for the proper performance of design in matter of time spent, deadlines, and quality. Her/His field of intervention is linked to project strategy defined by Project Manager.

Job Description

Roles and Responsibilities:

• 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 Operation and Maintenance Manuals 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.

Required Qualifications:

• Degree in Electrical Engineering and/or Electrical & Electronics Engineering
• 6+ years of Engineering activities as lead HV Substation Design Engineer
• Ensure compliance with relevant international standards such as IEC, IEEE, ANSI, NEMA, and CIGRE guidelines
• Knowledge of Algerian Regulations, Standards, and Technical Requirements
  • Familiarity with the Algerian Electricity and Gas Law – notably Law 02-01 of February 5, 2002.
  • Understanding of CREG (Commission de Régulation de l'Électricité et du Gaz) rules and procedures.
  • Awareness of national grid codes, particularly for high-voltage installations.
  • Proven experience with technical requirements and specifications, especially for HV GIS substations
  • Knowledge of CCT (Cahier des Charges Techniques) documents
  • Experience with factory and site acceptance tests (FAT/SAT) as per protocols
• 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 French and English to communicate with international partners as well as the local clients in native language

Desired Qualifications:

• General knowledge of Power System Equipment factories and products through FATs and site visits.
• Fluency in Arabic is a plus
• 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

Additional Information#LI-Remote - This is a remote position