Lead Secondary Design Engineer - HV Substation

Key Responsibilities

• As a High Voltage Substation Control, protection & low voltage system designer Lead Engineer, your main responsibility is to ensure their design reliability, efficiency, and compliance with industry standards, protection standard, and regulations.
• Collaboration with other Engineers and support for project documentation and continuous improvement initiatives are also key aspects of this role.
• Design and integrate is your main task, leading and support the team in charge of designing the Control system, protection system, Electrical distribution, telecom & monitoring of a High Voltage substation.
• Delivering single line diagram, schematic diagram, protection system, electrical consumption and design of auxiliary services, interlocking, communication & network:  it’s a wide domain with a lot of possibilities.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from accredited university or college.
• Minimum 5 years of High Voltage Design Engineering experience in related activity/discipline in project & EPC type environment in Transmission & Distribution, STATCOM, High Voltage substations.
• Up to 20% travel within Middle East Africa & Europe along with other countries/regions for short or medium period based on requirement.
• Strong oral and written in English

Desired Characteristics

• Knowledge of Project organization and engineering processes related to his/her scope of activity
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, to collaborate effectively with multidisciplinary teams and convey complex technical information to non-technical stakeholders.
• Provide technical support to customers and project teams.
• Initiate & support the procurement of equipment.
• Compliance with Quality processes and procedures and GE policies and procedures
• Experience in technical problem solving
• Discipline Design reviews & Gate reviews plan formalized and followed, to ensure the integration into the overall substation design.
• ROR integrates design part and Mitigation plan formalized and actions status identified (not started, ongoing, closed.)
• Discipline provisional document list prepared and aligned with project time Schedule with achievable task duration
• Full set KPI’s followed on monthly base
• Design management tools strictly followed, and submission of coherent data
• Design change process in place
• Manage engineering subcontractors on specific work packages
• Oversee the commissioning and testing of Low voltage systems