Sr Engineering Manager - Generator And Electrical Systems

Job Description Summary

Lead a global team across time zones and regions driving electrical project engineering excellence across Gas Power projects, including large-scale Turnkey EPC initiatives. Champion technical and operational rigor throughout all phases of project execution, consistently delivering excellent outcomes in Safety, Quality, Delivery, and Cost (SQDC). Shape and execute electrical engineering strategies, providing decisive leadership to senior electrical engineers who in turn are responsible for electrical engineer scope in complex projects. Spearhead key organizational initiatives and foster robust partnerships with regional project engineering leaders, as well as external EPC partners, commercial, sourcing, and engineering stakeholders, to achieve transformative results and advance business objectives.

Job Description

Roles and Responsibilities

In This Role, You Will

• Provide leadership to a team of Electrical team responsible for plant engineering scope for large scale turnkey EPC projects being accountable for the delivery of OTR project scope on time, on cost and on quality, by ensuring plant integration and close collaboration with interfacing functions
• Be responsible for resource allocation and management in all electrical scope for plant execution both through ITR working closely with Global Project Leaders, in an optimized way for the assigned portfolio of work;
• Serve as the primary leader and mentor to senior electrical engineers for all electrical matters, enabling meaningful technical and commercial engagements with customers, partners, consultants, and internal ITR and commercial teams across portfolio of projects.
• Demonstrate expert knowledge in project and system engineering processes for both turnkey and equipment-only projects, consistently delivering results in complex, large-scale initiatives—whether self-executed or in partnership with external partners across diverse geographies.
• Drive excellence in electrical project execution by having a sign off authority on matters concerning electrical engineering during contract reviews and also driving continuous improvement actions to proactively identify and mitigate risks, rigorously monitor financial and operational performance against agreed milestones, and initiate timely corrective actions across portfolio of projects.
• Be responsible for overseeing estimate at completion $$ impact of electrical engineering across projects in region.
• Drive urgency and ownership within team and with interfacing functions in resolving site issues during commissioning and hand-off, fostering collaborative partnerships with a wide spectrum of internal and external stakeholders to achieve timely and effective solutions.
• Inspire global team engagement in key organizational initiatives—including Lean, project cost reduction, and engineering standards development—to accelerate performance and growth.
• Provide visionary leadership that cultivates a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement. Set clear expectations and drive effective communication. Spearhead and System functions to champion a unified “One Team” mindset and foster accountability.
• Inspire team to redefine conventional practices and embrace simplification, continuously questioning established norms to unlock greater efficiency. Supports harmonization and standardization of tools, processes and technical specifications to optimize cost and time
  
  

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering or equivalent
• Minimum 10 – 15 years of experience in project engineering management for electrical discipline in large, combined cycle power projects, supervising and managing cross cultural globally dispersed teams
• At least 6-month site experience, ability to interact with Customer, partner or consultants, engaging in technical & commercial discussion.
• Ability to communicate fluently in English (written and spoken)
• Sound technical knowledge of Electrical System, Equipment and Cabling and integration and their interfaces with other engineering discipline.
• Ability and willingness to travel up to 5% of the time, as required. Stay (min one week to 2 weeks), at project site, Customer location
  
  

• People Management, Project Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Construction, Field Engineering and / or Contract Management experience in Power or Oil & Gas industry
• Motivated, self-starter, ability to anticipate events and develop adaptive strategies / remedies.
• Technical knowledge of product lines and associated systems
• Strong influencing skills specially supervising team in global setup, ability to interface and manage stakeholders.
• Keep regular interactions with his manager
• Questions “the way we’ve always done things” in the spirit of simplification
• Recognize team and individuals’ efforts and celebrate the successes
• Strong skills in customer relationship building, facilitation, and matrix management.
• Strong oral and written communication skills
• Strong interpersonal, responsive and leadership skills ability to engage, support and supervise the team
• Knowledge of system engineering tool like ETAP, NEEPLAN, AVEVA, EPLAN.
• Project Management Professional (PMP)