Project Engineering Manager

About the Role

Larsen & Toubro is seeking a Project Engineering Manager in Riyadh. This full-time role requires 2-5 years of experience and focuses on ensuring project engineering activities are completed within stipulated timeframes, adhering to quality and cost standards. The Project Engineering Manager will ensure compliance with the L2 schedule during project execution and will work on optimizations, alternative proposals, and solutions to achieve quick project delivery with a positive margin.

Key Responsibilities

• Coordinate with the Project Planning Manager to align deliveries with the Project Schedule.
• Conduct regular project review meetings to ensure schedule adherence.
• Lead internal review meetings for resource optimization, allocation, and enhanced productivity.
• Review designs, calculations, and drawings, ensuring timely submissions after customer approvals.
• Clarify issues with vendors and ensure timely material delivery at the project site.
• Provide clarification to inter-discipline Managers regarding design aspects of equipment.
• Enable and review accurate quantity estimation for Bill of Materials submission.
• Review critical issues and procedural delays related to equipment design and support Site Execution teams.
• Ensure BIM implementation in projects.
• Settle procurement issues and support Supply Chain management for vendor engineering order finalization.
• Support BOQ, review pre-bid offers and technical submissions, and provide post-tender clarifications to the contracts team.
• Lead and manage a team of Design Leads, Design Engineers, and Draughtspersons.
• Review Vendor evaluation against client technical specification requirements.
• Support Site Execution Teams for commercial issues and bill processing.
• Ensure issuance of Manufacturing Clearance by facilitating necessary communication with suppliers.
• Communicate and clarify the deliverable list from the client and obtain resource requirements for the project.

Technical Expertise

The Project Engineering Manager must possess overall expertise in both primary and secondary engineering for substation projects. A thorough understanding of design aspects of GIS / AIS Substations up to 765 KV is required, along with proficiency in selecting equipment such as Power Transformers, Reactors, Circuit Breakers, Disconnectors, and Instrument Transformers. The role demands familiarity with Substation Primary and Secondary Design, including Earthing, Lighting, Lightning Protection, Cabling, interfaces between Civil, MEP & Instrumentation, and Secondary engineering activities like Schemes, Wiring Diagrams, SCADA & Control System. The manager should understand leading and executing projects for different geographies, clients, and utilities, and have detailed knowledge of equipment to be installed and market conditions for vendor engineering. The ability to interpret contractual technical requirements and support Project Teams is essential.

Operating Network

This role involves extensive collaboration both internally and externally. Internally, the Project Engineering Manager will interact with the Head of Engineering, Inter-discipline Heads, Project Execution team, Supply Chain Management team, Quality team, and Contracts team. Externally, interactions will include customers (Engineering team), clients (Project Management team), and vendors (Engineering & Quality team).

Key Performance Indicators

• On-Time Delivery (Schedule Adherence)
• Timely Approval of SLA for Engineering Services
• Man-Hour Management for the team
• Support for Monthly Invoicing
• Savings Generated (Quality & Cost Optimization)
• Skill Development
• Digitalization
• Successor Development
• Standardization (Eliminating Inefficiency)
• Productivity (Man-Hours allotted)
• Strike Rate of Bids Submitted (If Applicable)

Behavioral Attributes

• Market Insight and Foresight
• Leveraging Opportunities
• Customer-Centric Approach and Sustainable Partnership
• Anticipating Needs
• Disruptive Innovation and Challenging Traditional Approaches
• Generating Innovative Solutions and Taking Calculated Risks
• Collaboration and Influence with Internal and External Stakeholders