Lead Electrical Designer

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About you and this role

The Central Engineering Chennai (CEC) currently has an opening for a Lead Electrical Designer in our Engineering Solutions located in Chennai. This role is filled by Electrical Designers with an emphasis in Electrical Design and Detailed Engineering.  

The successful candidate will function mainly as Lead Electrical Designer on medium to Large sized projects at several facilities managed by the Chennai Engineering Center. The candidate will collaborate with designers and drafters to develop and assemble the contract package in accordance with the project schedule. As a member of a multi-discipline, capital project (or) Site Executed Project (SEP) design team, the Lead Electrical Designer is responsible for the development and detailed design of electrical systems for Chemical Process Units. The Lead Electrical Designer utilizes applicable design criteria, design tools, best practices, and established work processes to complete detailed design packages. 

Initially, the Lead Electrical Designer will work under the guidance of the assigned Peer/Technical Coach to develop the necessary technical competencies required to become fully equipped on the work processes, tools, design standards and best practices. The successful candidate will be expected to quickly learn and effectively apply the Dow design tools, work processes, standards, and best practices, and to teach them to the rest of the team of both Dow Employees and contract resources in CEC/across globe.

Responsibilities

• Single Line and Three Line Drawings. Motor control schematics
• Substation Layout Design, transformer yard layouts. Conversant with IEC and NEC standards on spacing and clearances for electrical layout design
• Overhead cable tray rack design and routing. Earthing/Grounding Layouts
• Lighting and Lightning Protection Layouts. Hazardous Area Classification
• Preparation of installation details for electrical equipment, cable trays, grounding, lighting, and small power. Panel Schedules and Interconnection Diagrams. PA/Communication Layout. S3D modelling of Transformer, Switchgear, MCC, Trays, Lights, Sockets, Grounding, Control Stations, LCPs etc. including extraction from S3D model to 2D. Cable routing and scheduling.
• Bulk material preparation and extraction of MTO reports from S3D model.
• Conducting/Participation in key mile-stone model reviews. Proactive inter-disciplinary coordination, team-check, and quality compliance process

Qualifications

• 3 Years Diploma in Electrical Engineering from an approved and reputed University/Technical Institution like Polytechnic
• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from approved university is an added advantage but not mandatory.
• Minimum of 10 Years of design & detailed engineering experience
• Demonstrated knowledge and skills in project execution environment for Chemical/ Oil and Gas Industrial Projects.

Tools & Software Exposure:

• Expert level user of Smart Plant 3D (SP3D)
• Very good hands-on experience in AutoCAD, MicroStation, Power Draft and Bluebeam software tools
• MS Office Packages

Preferred Skills

• Good communication
• Collaborative skills both within the discipline team and with other inter-discipline team.
• To lead team of design designers, verifying and validating their deliverables to ensure assembling of good & Quality construction packages in addition to successfully delivering one’s own responsibilities and accountabilities.
• Ability to plan various steps of activities and constantly look-out for improvement opportunities.

Language Proficiency:

• English: Fluency in Oral & Written communication is pre-requisite for this role.

• Any other National/International Language: Preferred but not mandatory.

Relocation:

• Domestic relocation is supported if the candidate selected resides outside of Tamil Nadu at the time of selection.

Benefits – What Dow offers you 

We invest in you. 

Dow invests in total rewards programs to help you manage all aspects of you: your pay, your health, your life, your future, and your career.  You bring your background, talent and perspective to work every day. Dow rewards that commitment by investing in your total wellbeing.  

Here are just a few highlights of what you would be offered as a Dow employee: 

• Equitable and market-competitive base pay and bonus opportunity across our global markets, along with locally relevant incentives. 
• Benefits and programs to support your physical, mental and emotional well-being, to help you get the care you need...when you need it. 
• Competitive retirement program that may include company-provided benefits, savings opportunities, financial planning and educational resources to help you achieve your long term financial-goals. 
• Become a Dow shareholder through various employee stock programs.
• Opportunities to learn and grow through training and mentoring, work experiences, community involvement and team building. 
• Workplace culture empowering role-based flexibility to maximize personal productivity and balance personal needs. 
• Global Paid Time Off (PTO) policies:
  • Paid time off for new parents (birthing and non-birthing, including adoptive and foster parents).  
  • ​Paid time off to care for family members who are sick or injured.  
  • Paid time off to support volunteering and Employee Resource Group’s (ERG) participation. 

Join our team, we can make a difference together. 

About Dow Chemical International Pvt Ltd

Dow Chemical International Private Limited (Dow India) aims to be the most innovative, sustainable, inclusive customer-centric materials science company. The company is committed to delivering the right solutions to its customers’ challenges. With broadest technology sets spanning performance materials, industrial intermediates, and plastics Dow India delivers differentiated science-based products and solutions in high-growth segments, such as packaging, infrastructure, automobile, and consumer care.

A Great Place to Work® Certified company with approximately over 1000 employees, its operations comprise of manufacturing sites, innovation center, established centers of excellence, and commercial office. As a responsible corporate, the company supports its Corporate Social Responsibility (program) with technology expertise and employee volunteerism. Dow India works with non-profit partners towards the empowerment of differently abled, women, and children in communities where it operates. The company aims to redefine the societal blueprint, by supporting holistic sustainability and circular economy initiatives.

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