Vacancy: Senior HV Electrical Project Engineer - T&D
Location: Dublin
Salary: Negotiable
ROLE PURPOSE
The HV Electrical Senior Project Engineer will participate with and frequently lead T&D project teams consisting of members from various groups and disciplines across a number of areas within the organisation and externally. The Senior Project Engineer, in conjunction with the PM and project QS, will be responsible for all aspects of T&D projects from initial tendering, through contract award, detailed design, site installation, commissioning, energisation and successful handover.
KEY TASKS / RESPONSIBILITIES / ACCOUNTABILITIES
- Identify, undertake and manage key detailed design tasks
- Initiate and manage the sub-contracting of specialist design / studies
- Ensure that technical issues are identified and resolved without delay
- Review quotations for the supply of material to confirm adequacy and technical suitability
- Be aware of, manage and mitigate commercial risk to the company
- Process internal procurement from equipment enquiries, requisitioning & monitoring manufacture through to delivery to site whilst maintaining a comprehensive audit trail
- Prepare technical submittals for approval to the client, coordinating inputs from other parties where required
- Work with the project PM, civil engineer and QS to prepare sub-contract packages
- Attend & record regular supply chain and project progress meetings to ensure that progress is monitored & maintained within the overall construction programme
- Liaise with the project team & supply chain to ensure correct operation of the plant on site & successful handover
- Monitor & record project progress against the construction programme
- Compare Tender drawings to Construction drawings and advise of any changes
- Work closely with the relevant PM to ensure that all variations are notified to the project QS
- Ensure that the Clients management tools are updated as set out in the contract documentation
- Prepare and hand over all relevant documentation in the form of a safety file at the end of each project
- Undertake testing, fault investigation, diagnostic activities and rectification of faults within your competence
- Provide technical support and direction, within your competence, to firm’s T&D Project Team members, including the application of technical standards
- Support the development of junior and intermediate team members’ technical and project management skills
- Work with the project team to prepare design risk assessments as required contractually and under legislation and provide technical input, where required, of method statements & all aspects relating to Health & Safety on site
- Promote a positive safety culture and safe working environment
Managing the projects
- Work with wider project team to review & manage the project from inception to handover
- Undertake regular meetings with the supply chain and Client to maintain progress & to ensure resources are matched to the project delivery programme
- Work with the project team to develop the project specific quality plan
- Be commercially aware, mitigating the project risk as much as possible and protect the company’s exposure to risk
- Ensure that the Health & Safety, Environmental & Quality procedures are followed & adequate records maintained
- To liaise with the project manager & prepare the project close out report
Managing the people
- Review with the project manager the allocation of resources & general progress
- Contribute to assessment reviews of the organisation’s personnel
- Motivate the project team
Managing the Client and other external relationships
- Develop a strong & maintain an excellent working relationship from the start to the completion of the project
- To act as an ambassador with any stakeholders involved with the project
- Meet and exceed the contractual requirements delivering on time, safely & to the highest quality
Testing & Commissioning
- Develop, with the commissioning team, a project specific commissioning plan, amending as required following input from the Client and / or System Operator
- Attend Commissioning & Energisation coordination meetings as required
- Provide (and coordinate with external parties where required) technical support and address faults as required
Day-to-Day Control
- Provide technical support and direction, within your competence, to T&D Project Team members, including the application of technical standards
- To undertake other activities which the Company may reasonably require to be undertaken on a temporary basis which are within an individual’s area of competence
- To report progress and/or problems to the Management team as appropriate
QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE REQUIRED
- Detailed knowledge of power engineering, including technical and installation requirements
- Detailed knowledge of power system operation and development
- Commercial acumen
- Health, Safety and Environmental systems and procedures
- Staff / Team management – working with their strengths and their weaknesses
- BEng Engineering (appropriate course content)
Essential
- B. Eng Degree or equivalent recognised Engineering degree in Electrical / Power
Desirable
- Appropriate IEng, CEng, PEng, Eur Ing or equivalent
- Experience working for or with DNOs or TSOs in the UK or Ireland