Project Engineering Manager

Description

• Ensure all engineering activities are compliant with:
• Organize input data acquisition for O&MM and as-built documents.
• Troubleshoot and resolve site engineering issues, including design clashes, interface gaps, and installation challenges.
• Organize and manage disciplinary design reviews.
• Ensure proper global design freeze.
• Oversight of installation, commissioning, and grid synchronization of STATCOMs and GIS bays.
• Ensure compliance with relevant international standards such as IEC, IEEE, ANSI, NEMA, and CIGRE guidelines.
• Manage OEM and vendor integration, ensuring interface alignment with GIS, transformers, STATCOM, and balance of plant.
• Manage global time schedule of concerned engineering activities, check coherency of links between engineering activities and other project functions activities (procurement, construction, commissioning) and organize follow up of critical activities of the project or of his/her discipline.
• Manage engineering changes and technical deviations, preparing justifications and obtaining client approvals.
• Ensure that a proper technical risk analysis is conducted in case of innovation.
• Ensure engineering deliverables (layouts, schematics, protection philosophy, BOQs) comply with DEWA, TRANSCO, SEWA or FEWA standards.
• Lead the submission, clarification, and approval cycle of:
• Collaborate with HSE teams and construction personnel to address technical risks related to HV safety, confined space access (GIS), arc flash zones, and STATCOM commissioning hazards.
• Act as the primary engineering contact for clients such as DEWA, TRANSCO, and other authorities.
• Coordinate all technical disciplines: primary, secondary, civil interface, control, and protection.
• Identify technical risks early and define mitigation strategies.
• Interface with OEMs, local EPC contractors, and civil works teams to ensure scope alignment and schedule adherence.
• Review and validate design documents, test reports, and commissioning protocols prior to submission.
• Lead the end-to-end engineering scope for HV GIS and STATCOM projects (from basic to detailed design).
• Coordinate technical interfaces between project partners. Coordinate with EPC contractors, local design consultants, and site teams to ensure smooth delivery.
• Integrate EHS Design Gate Reviews into key engineering milestones, ensuring that safety-by-design principles are considered during layout development, equipment placement, and operational access planning.
• Facilitate engineering design reviews, HAZOPs, FATs, and SATs with client representatives.
• Actively support the preparation and review of Method Statements and Risk Assessments (MSRAs) and participate in safety review meetings with the client and contractors.
• Ensure all engineering activities and technical solutions comply with the UAE's environment, health, and safety (EHS) regulations and utility-specific HSE policies (e.g., DEWA HSE Guidelines, TRANSCO HSEMS).
• Develop and monitor the engineering execution plan, aligned with project milestones.
• Represent the engineering team in progress meetings, site visits, and technical audits.

Requirements

• Knowledge of project execution risks and financial processes.
• Skilled at influencing and relationship building.
• Issued For Construction Drawings/As-Built Drawings,
• Demonstrated experience managing equipment interfaces between STATCOM, GIS, transformers, and control systems.
• Previous coordination with local engineering consultants and third-party testing authorities (e.g., TUV, Bureau Veritas, Intertek).
• Demonstrated ability to analyze and resolve problems.
• Able to live and work in Dubai.
• UAE regulations, utility specifications, and international standards (IEC/ISO),
• Legal, Logistical, and Cultural Readiness
• General knowledge of Power System Equipment factories and products through FATs and site visits.
• Strong communication and persuasion skills.
• 6+ years of Engineering activities as lead HV Substation Design Engineer.
• Successful experience in project technical management in a multi-disciplinary team’s context including multiple interfaces and with products coming from several countries.
• Ability to communicate with multiple departments.
• In-depth understanding of UAE authority standards for HV GIS substations (132kV to 400kV) and STATCOM systems, including:
• Security pass requirements for utility substations,
• Successfully executed at least one STATCOM project and multiple GIS substation projects (132kV and above) in the UAE.
• Demonstrates ownership & accountability, judgment and decision making, influences & inspires team, creates a vision and strategy, and has passion for the role.
• TRANSCO (TAQA) Transmission Code and Engineering Guidelines,
• Experience of team building as lead engineer.
• Willingness to work in different locations for short or medium period and to travel worldwide.
• Internal QA/QC procedures and the company’s engineering handbook.
• Familiarity with UAE work permit systems, site safety compliance (DEWA HSE, ADNOC PTW if applicable).
• Protection coordination and SCADA integration.
• Fluency in English to communicate with international partners as well as the local clients (interview will be in English).
• Capable of conducting design review meetings, FAT/SAT coordination, and resolving client comments in line with utility expectations.
• Visa and residency requirements,
• Cultural fluency in working with multinational teams and Emirati authorities.
• Technical familiarity with IEC and local utility adaptations related to:
• Direct experience with client design approvals and technical submittals to:
• DEWA Specifications (e.g., EES-PMS, EES-TMS),
• Gas-insulated switchgear (GIS),
• Degree in Electrical Engineering or Electrical and Electronics Engineering,
• Demonstrated presentation skills and ability to succinctly communicate complex messages.
• SEWA, FEWA, ADDC, AADC requirements.
• Harmonic filtering and reactive power control,
• Prior working experience in the UAE with awareness of:
• Project management skills.

Benefits

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance