Senior Project Engineer

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Your role and responsibilities
In this role, you will have the opportunity to lead engineering and site execution activities for Marine System projects. Each day, you will oversee project engineering deliverables and site operations, ensuring efficient and cost-effective execution in alignment with contract specifications, quality standards, safety requirements, and project objectives. You will also demonstrate your ability by coordinating with stakeholders, managing site activities, and ensuring on-time project delivery within scope, schedule, and budget requirements.

                                                                                                                                       
The work model for the role is: #LI – Onsite
This role is contributing to the Automation – Marine & ports division in-Bangalore-Peenya India region.
You will be mainly accountable for:

• Lead engineering, design, and site execution activities for Marine & Ports Electrical Solutions projects, ensuring delivery in accordance with contractual requirements, quality standards, safety regulations, and project schedules.

• Engineer and integrate Marine Electrical Systems, including Variable Frequency Drives (VFDs), Automation and Control Systems, Power and Energy Management Systems, MV/LV Power Systems, and Protection, Control, and Monitoring Solutions.

• Manage technical discussions with customers, suppliers, shipyards, and marine classification societies, ensuring timely approvals and compliance with project specifications.

• Perform equipment selection, prepare technical specifications, review vendor drawings and documents, and execute detailed engineering for marine electrical and automation systems.

• Coordinate closely with Sales, Project Management, Procurement, Commissioning, and Site Teams to ensure seamless project execution and timely system delivery.

• Support site installation, commissioning, and project documentation activities while ensuring compliance with HSE requirements, safe work practices, and applicable regulatory standards.

• Identify project risks and opportunities, implement mitigation plans, and provide technical leadership to optimize project performance, system reliability, and customer satisfaction.

Qualifications for the Role

• 10–15 years of experience in the engineering, design, and execution of Marine, Power, or Industrial Electrical Systems, with demonstrated technical leadership in complex projects.

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Electrical & Electronics Engineering (EEE), Instrumentation & Control Engineering, or a related discipline.

• Strong expertise in Variable Frequency Drives (VFDs), Automation and Control Systems, Power and Energy Management Systems (PMS/EMS), and MV/LV Electrical Distribution Systems.

• Hands-on experience with protection, control, and monitoring schemes, including system design, equipment selection, engineering reviews, and technical approvals.

• Proven ability to lead multidisciplinary engineering teams, approve technical designs, and ensure alignment with project scope, quality standards, customer requirements, Marine classification requirements.

• Demonstrated experience managing technical interfaces with customers, suppliers, and stakeholders throughout project engineering, execution, and commissioning phases.

• Strong communication, interpersonal, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to work effectively in a global project environment.

• Willingness to travel globally (approximately 20%) to support engineering reviews, customer engagements, project execution, commissioning, and site activities

More about us:

The Marine & Ports Division serves the shipping and ports industries through its extensive portfolio of integrated systems and solutions that improve the flexibility, reliability and energy efficiency of vessels and container terminals. By coupling power, propulsion, automation, marine software and services that ensure maximum vessel uptime, the Division is well positioned to help the marine industry to achieve 1 | Senior field service engineer its decarbonization targets while improving the profitability and sustainability of our customers’ business throughout the entire lifecycle of vessels. With ABB Ability™ Marine software solutions and ABB Ability™ Collaborative Operations Centers around the world, shipowners and operators can run their fleets at lower fuel and maintenance costs, while improving crew, passenger and cargo safety as well as overall productivity of their operations. Further, the Division delivers automation, electrical systems and digital solutions for container and bulk cargo handling, from ship to gate. These solutions help terminal operators meet the challenge of larger ships, taller cranes and bigger volumes per call, and make terminal operations safer, greener and more productive." We value people from different backgrounds. Apply today for your next career step within ABB and visit www.abb.com to learn about the impact of our solutions across the globe. #MyABBStory "It has come to our attention that the name of ABB is being used for asking candidates to make payments for job opportunities (interviews, offers). Please be advised that ABB makes no such requests. All our open positions are made available on our career portal for all fitting the criteria to apply. ABB does not charge any fee whatsoever for recruitment process. Please do not make payments to any individuals / entities in connection to recruitment with ABB, even if is claimed that the money is refundable. ABB is not liable for such transactions.

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