Senior Project Engineering Manager

Job Description Summary

For Grid Solutions, Offshore HVDC represents a key differentiating technology and a central focus for the business, particularly in Europe where Transmission System Operators have very ambitious renewable energy targets. In that context and for Germany, Grid Solutions participates in projects deploying new HVDC converter stations to bring Offshore Wind energy into Germany.

Grid Solutions is looking for a Project Engineering Director who will oversee the technical coordination and management of technical topics of the entire scope of such HVDC projects.

He/she will be the contact point to the Customer on technical matters and responsible to lead the elaboration of the best possible solutions with project members regarding technical aspects.

The Project Engineering Director will be accountable of the proper performance of the design in terms of engineering cost, deadlines, and quality.

He/she will coordinate and manage the global time schedule of engineering activities, follow-up engineering budgets, define the project design quality plan, ensure implementation of Engineering Management Handbook 'EMH' guidelines, supervise overall technical coordination between different work packages of Grid Complex large project.

He/she will guarantee that global optimization is implemented when selecting technical solutions (cost effective solution, safe, ease of installation and operation of the systems) in line with Customer expectation and relevant documentation delivered as per project general time schedule. He will support commercial teams to define design strategy.

Job Description

Project management

Scope of work & time schedule

• Accountable for consolidation of provisional drawing list issue with submission dates and global time schedule of engineering activities.
• Ensure that the follow up of critical activities is done in a regular base by discipline PEM's ('Project Engineering Managers')

Time delivery mastering

• Support work-package to anticipate and mitigate delivery issues
• Coordinate with discipline engineers delivery time of technical interfaces check that information exchange interface sheets are in place and followed.
• Challenge the global time schedule for engineering activities in close collaboration with PEM's and the planner
• Ensure technical disciplines are Coordinated in terms of interfaces, synchronization

Budget and Resources

• Responsible for the project engineering budget, he/she manages monthly follow-up of the budget, identify potential savings and deviations through the modifications sheet. He/she makes sure that the imputations are properly allocated by WBS to ensure a consistent Return on Experience.
• Communication
• Animate Visual Management sessions / I-Obeya

Project strategy & risk management

• Elaborate the engineering execution strategy w
• Participate to project strategy elaboration with Project Director
• Define and validate the design quality plan for the whole engineering scope.
• Ensure implementation of EMH guidelines
• Consolidate and follow for the whole project technical risks & opportunities and the corresponding mitigation/ action plan
• Implement a design freeze process for the project and validate the design freeze following relevant design reviews and technical risks assessment for the project

Customer relationship

• Responsible in front of the customer of the engineering execution of the project. He is the preferred contact of the customer management for all topics related to the engineering.
• Accountable for the respect of customer technical requirements, he/she organizes the clause-by-clause analysis and coordinate the certification activities when required
• Ensure compliance to customer requirements through technical queries, track, manage potential exceptions.
• Together with all PEM's ensure that answers to customer are consistent and check cross impact of comment
• Manage customer technical meetings (including validation meeting, clarifications, design liaison meetings)

Document & configuration management

• Organize with integration & interface Manager and document controller leader the technical document management for the project: tool set-up, delivery process, Master drawing list, Questions / Responses follow up
• Validate and check consistency of the engineering documents before final release to customer
• Coordinate Tracking of customer comments and answers, along with document resubmission
• Ensure that Management of return status of project documentation (approved, comments, resubmit, rejected) is performed
• Coordinate the way to Tracks & manage identified or potential deviations

Design expediting

• Accountable for the On-Time Delivery of the engineering
• Check effectiveness of design against delivery of contract requirements within project budget and look for global cost optimization during basic design
• Approve transmittal of documents to customer
• Review main subcontracting files for main work packages design activities (scope, deliverables, inputs, schedule)
• Ensure that execution of OMM is coordinated

Process & Tools

• Ensure deployment of Engineering tools (CAD, PDM/DMS,) is done as per strategy
• Define design management tools
• Organize Design review plan and manage design review with Customer, and certifier (if any)
• Integrate EHS requirements based on project Strategy
• Set up and consolidate engineering KPI's and reporting for the whole project on regular basis (monthly generally)
• Ensure that non-conformance reports involving engineering are managed

Sourcing & Procurement, Supplier/Partner management

• Support PEM integration on management of technical interfaces with main subcontractors, Customers and third parties

Quality

• Comply with Quality Procedures, work instructions and Processes in EMH
• Report or resolve any non-conformances and process in a timely manner

Health and Safety

• Implement design freeze and EHS in design
• Demonstrate EHS leadership and ensure Zero Deviation Plan is implemented within the team
• Sets the example by demonstrating the proper acts and actively observes work conditions and behaviours, giving constructive feedback and celebrating EHS effective prevention.
• Actively participates in defining corrective actions when work is unsafe or when an uncontrolled risk is observed.
• Routinely observes routines and behaviours of others and provides immediate feedback regarding unsafe behaviour and celebrates achievements or safe behaviours.

Desired Profile & Experience

• 10+ years of Engineering activities in EPC type environment in T&D, Power Gen or Oil&Gas industry
• Mastering of some engineering processes such as: Civil work, Plant configuration, control &protection hardware, System & performance studies or Electrical design
• Successful experience in project technical management on large scale project with complex organizations
• Strong influencing and relationship building skills
• Knowledge of project execution risks and financial processes
• Willingness to work in different locations for short or medium period and to travel in worldwide.
• Demonstrated presentation skills and ability to succinctly communicate complex messages
• Demonstrated ability to lead in an unstructured environment and deliver results
• Demonstrates ownership & accountability, judgment and decision making, influences & inspires team, creates a vision and strategy, and has passion for the role
• Global experience and mindset including high technical cultural competence and sensitivity

Additional Information

Relocation Assistance Provided: No