Primary Design Manager
Renewable Energy Grid Solutions - Topeka, Kansas, United States,![Renewable Energy Grid Solutions](/api/image?src=https%3A%2F%2Fgeneral-board-default.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdesk-360x180.webp&w=640&q=75&f=webp)
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The Primary Design Manager will lead a geographically diverse team of designers, sub-contractors, engineers and project teams working on protection and control schematics and substation equipment.
The role will offer a high-level overview of design and interface with various teams throughout the project cycle.
About Us:
Come bring your energy to change the world. Grid Solutions, part of the GE Vernova portfolio of energy businesses, serves customers globally with over 12,000 employees. Grid Solutions provides equipment, systems, and services to bring power reliably and efficiently from the point of generation to end power consumers. We electrify the world with advanced grid technologies and accelerate the energy transition.
GE Vernova, a dynamic accelerator comprised of our Power, Renewable Energy, Digital and Energy Financial Services businesses, is focused on leading a new era of energy - electrifying the world while simultaneously working to decarbonize it.
If you are ready to make a difference and usher in a new era of energy, come join us.
Job DescriptionThe Primary Design Manager is the technical guarantor of the proper performance of design works conditions in their field of activity, in matter of committed design budget (man days), deadline and Quality, in line with Customer expectation, while promoting ease of installation, operation and maintenance of the system.
The successful candidate plans basic and detailed design activities, manages & oversees detailed execution progress, coordinates delivery of required engineering documentation for procurement, manufacturing and site erection associated to concerned activity, based on Customer specifications and requirement, and internal standards.
Responsibilities:
Scope of work & time schedule
Establish, based on tender and contract analysis, and project strategy, the list of documents to produce for his / her field of activity
Evaluates with PEM or PM engineering workload and deliverables dates for concerned package, and commits to such budget in man days and in time delivery
Ensures on-time delivery of design, including Partner documents, to stakeholders with suitable quality
Anticipate and mitigate delivery issues and recommend changes
Lead & coordinate your design team
Manage and monitor detailed execution progress and short-term plan
Request from PEM or PM required technical coordination meetings with partners or key suppliers if & when appropriate, to synchronise respective designs
Manage design time spent in man-hours on relevant activities
Follows & implements project strategy
Highlights scope or design changes (data for claims, VO..)
Informs PEM / PM of design issues all along project execution and propose range of solutions for decision; follow solutions agreed up to resolution
Analyse customer technical requirements
Ensures compliance to customer requirements
Represents customer interests in the design decisions at PM request
Coordinate with Partners coordination regarding customer technical comments on their scope
Looks for cost optimisation in all design phases and mainly during basic design
Ensures technical consistency of design area
Checks design subcontractor deliverables
Desired Skills and Experience
Relevant degree - electrical or mechanical, function of field of activity involved.
Good level of years engineering experience in the related activity/discipline, preferably in project & EPC type environment in T&D, Power Gen or Oil &Gas industry, or 2 to 4 Medium Set projects in position of Lead Engineer
Experience of project technical management processes, preferably in a multi-disciplinary team’s context with multiple interfaces
Several experiences in managing externally subcontracted design work package of various sizes
Knowledge of Transmission or Distribution industry
We deliver integrated project solutions to enable large scale electrification and support our customer needs.
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