Lead Detailed Engineering

SnapSeaarch is urgently hiring for the following vacancy for one of our clients from the Chemicals industry.

Reporting To: Head Technology Transfer

Position Purpose

The Lead Detailed Engineering role is responsible for overseeing planning and designing of various units, ensuring completion in line with process design. The purpose of this role is to build the requisite engineering capabilities which will provide the adequate technical, design, architectural, construction expertise to guide and support project execution and scale up teams

Key Responsibilities

Strategic

• Review and approve all design plans/blue prints proposed by Civil/Electrical& Instrumentation/mechanical/ Process teams
• Drive value engineering initiatives to reduce project cost and innovative construction methodologies to improve productivity

Operational & Financial

• Direct and review changes in design as per requirement
• Ensure strict adherence to standard operating procedures in quality testing, placing orders for equipment outsourcing, change in design, etc.
• Ensure that all drawings, technical specifications, floor plans meet statutory regulations and various government compliance requirements
• Highlight risks in execution – both technical as well as engineering capacity/ capability related and provide support in quantification of impact
• Support in managing disputes between construction/ procurement/engineering teams/subcontractors
• Coordinate to obtain additional design support from external experts/design consultants
• Ensure strong Engineering processes such as Document Control, Document Management, Document Archiving
• Ensure Engineering controls (such as inter disciplinary checks) are enforced
• Participate in review meeting for pre-execution activities along with master planning managers, contract and procurement head and engineering team
• Participate in Project review meetings to resolve engineering issues
• Conduct design project post mortems and create a recommendations report in order to identify successful and unsuccessful design elements
• Benchmark best practices/tools for engineering and design processes
• Review/ follow up on Engineering Calendar for all projects/bids
• Develop KPIs to measure the performance of Detailed Engineering department to ensure high productivity among subordinates
• Maintain engineering budgets and ensure adherence to the budget
• Support HAZOP by studying process safety data and converting into interlocks and trips in the proposed design

People

• Recommend initiatives for building requisite skills & competencies through focused professional development and capability building initiatives for the Detailed Engineering team
• Review workforce capacity gaps within the Detailed Engineering team and ensure timely recruitment in alignment with Corporate HR policies
• Actively sponsor, in conjunction with the Senior Management Team, the performance management process of the team
• Recognize & reward excellent performers & affirm key contributions of employees toward the achievement of goals & objectives of the team
• Inspire & motivate employees through demonstrated commitment to PI’s values, vision & mission and exemplifying effective leadership, initiative and persistence needed to accomplish goals and objectives

Education: B.Tech/M.Tech – Chemical/ Mechanical Engineering from Institutes of repute like IIT/NIT

Target Industry: Agro-Pharma-Fine-Chemicals