About the Role
The Engineering Manager will be responsible for leading and coordinating multidisciplinary engineering activities during various phases of a power project, including engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, and project close-out. This role serves as the principal engineering interface with the Client/Owner, Owner’s Engineer team, EPC Contractor, OEMs, vendors, and other project stakeholders. The Engineering Manager ensures that the EPC Contractor’s design and engineering deliverables meet project requirements, contractual obligations, applicable codes and standards, safety requirements, and the agreed schedule. Technical leadership will be provided to the engineering team, managing interdisciplinary interfaces and ensuring that engineering issues are identified, addressed, and closed without negatively impacting procurement, construction, or commissioning.
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Responsibilities
Engineering Management & Leadership
- Lead and coordinate the multidisciplinary engineering team, including mechanical, electrical, I&C, civil/structural, and other specialist disciplines.
- Establish priorities for engineering reviews in line with the overall EPC and construction programme.
- Coordinate engineering activities from detailed design through construction, testing, commissioning, and handover.
- Ensure that engineering deliverables are reviewed within the contractual review periods. Monitor engineering progress and identify potential schedule or technical risks at an early stage.
- Conduct regular engineering coordination and interdisciplinary interface meetings. Provide technical direction and guidance to discipline leads and site engineering personnel.
EPC Design & Document Review
- Manage the Owner’s Engineer review of EPC Contractor engineering submissions, including:
- Design criteria and design basis documents
- PFDs and P&IDs
- Heat and mass balances
- Equipment specifications and datasheets
- System calculations
- Electrical single-line diagrams
- Control philosophies and logic
- Civil and structural drawings
- General arrangement drawings
- Vendor documentation
- Interface documentation
- Testing and commissioning procedures
- Ensure EPC designs comply with project specifications, contractual requirements, applicable international standards, and good engineering practice.
- Maintain consistency between engineering disciplines and identify/interface clashes before they impact construction.
Technical Interface Management
- Act as the primary engineering coordination interface between the Client, EPC Contractor, Owner’s Engineer disciplines, OEMs, and vendors.
- Manage interdisciplinary interfaces between major plant systems and packages.
- Coordinate resolution of Technical Queries, Requests for Information, engineering deviations, and design changes.
- Ensure technical issues affecting multiple disciplines are appropriately evaluated and resolved.
- Support resolution of interfaces with utilities and external stakeholders where required.
Construction & Site Engineering Support
- Provide engineering support to the site construction team.
- Resolve design-related issues arising during construction.
- Coordinate responses to site technical queries and drawing discrepancies.
- Review EPC design changes proposed during construction and assess their technical and contractual implications.
- Verify that construction follows approved design documentation and specifications.
- Coordinate engineering solutions where site conditions require modification of the approved design.
- Support resolution and closure of engineering-related NCRs.
Equipment & Vendor Engineering
- Coordinate technical review of major equipment packages.
- Review and monitor vendor engineering documentation and interfaces.
- Ensure vendor requirements are correctly incorporated into the overall plant design.
- Support technical evaluation and resolution of vendor deviations.
- Coordinate engineering input for factory inspections and FATs where applicable.
- Support resolution of vendor technical issues during erection, testing, and commissioning.
Engineering Schedule & Deliverables
- Monitor the EPC Contractor’s engineering programme and document submission schedule.
- Identify engineering activities on or approaching the project critical path.
- Coordinate priorities for Owner’s Engineer review to avoid delays in procurement and construction.
- Monitor overdue engineering submissions and technical actions.
- Participate in engineering progress and EPC coordination meetings.
- Provide regular engineering progress, risk, and issue reporting to the Project Manager.
Change & Risk Management
- Identify technical risks and recommend appropriate mitigation measures.
- Assess proposed design changes, deviations, and concessions.
- Evaluate potential schedule, constructability, operability, and performance impacts of engineering changes.
- Provide technical inputs to contractual/commercial change assessments where required.
- Ensure engineering decisions and agreed deviations are adequately documented.
Quality, HSE & Compliance
- Ensure design and engineering activities include applicable HSE requirements, such as safe access, maintainability, operability, and constructability.
- Support design risk assessments, HAZOP, and other technical safety studies as applicable.
- Ensure engineering activities comply with the Project Quality Plan and established document-control procedures.
- Promote incorporation of lessons learned and good engineering practices.
Testing, Commissioning & Handover
- Provide engineering support during system completion, testing, and commissioning.
- Coordinate resolution of engineering issues identified during commissioning.
- Support review of commissioning procedures and performance-test documentation.
- Monitor incorporation of engineering modifications into final documentation.
- Support review and acceptance of as-built drawings, O&M manuals, and final project documentation.
- Assist with technical close-out and handover to the Client/Operator.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering or a closely related field.
- Minimum of 15 years of mechanical engineering experience, with a focus on power generation projects.
- Experience with Closed/Open Cycle Gas Turbine Projects and Substation Projects.
- Profound knowledge of mechanical systems, codes, and standards.
- Demonstrated expertise in project management and team leadership.
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