Manager - Electrical Design (Solar/Renewable energy)

As Design Manager, the person shall be capable of reviewing & executing Engineering Activities like AC&DC SLD, Equipment Layouts, Earthing Layouts, Cable Sizing Calculations, Transformer Sizing, LT / HT Breakers of Solar PV Power Plants.Technical Due Diligence, Pre-feasibility study, Energy Yield Assessment & DPR Preparation, Solar Resource Assessment, Design Review, PV system design and detailed Engineering, Factory Inspection, preparing technical proposals, Selection of BOM and Development of 3D model and shadow analysis and Well versed in technology selection, system configuration & various layouts, SLDs, Distribution and control systems of Solar Photovoltaic Power Plants.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Timely Delivery of Engineering Drawings & Documents • Ensure deliveries are aligned to Project Schedule
• Review drawings by Design Engineers & Draughts Persons. Checking of design & sizing calculations of engineering electrical equipment and obtaining approvals from the client
• Review of Vendor deliverables pertaining to Engineering
• Review BOQ and submit to contracts team and providing technical clarifications
• Coordinate with multiple disciplines for ensuring inter-departmental checks
• Provide support & clarifications to the Site Execution team
• Check pre-award evaluation of vendors (w.r.t. technical specifications requirement of the client) and forward the validation document to Supply Chain Management
• Inspect equipment from the finalized vendor after submission of validation document of the vendor
• Clarify issues w.r.t. the design & requirements of the client to the Site Execution Team
• Collect inputs for project details (plot details, feeder arrangements etc.) from client & Project Engineering Manager
• Coordinating with Operations team and informing Design specifications for obtaining approval
• Check deliverables such as Equipment layouts, Cable Routing Layout, Cable Tray Layout, Earthing Layout, lighting Layout, Lightning Protection Layout
• Provide support to Electrical DC, Civil /Structural for reviewing Vendor drawings.
• Preparation of Overall Layouts including strig and module grouping, Module orientation and inclination, row spacing and cable plans, nominal power ratio sizing and inverters.
• DC side Electrical system design right from the PV module to the inverter inputs. This essentially includes the sizing of connectors, connection boxes, string combiner boxes, DC distribution boards, DC cable run lengths and sizes
• AC-side electrical systems are designed from the invter output to grid interconnection and meeting point. This will essentially include LV/MV and MV/HV transformers, grid connection schematics, and metering.
• In-house drawings and technical specifications for electrical works (BOM, BOQ, RFP)
• Design & Drawing of electrical systems for medium and large-scale PV systems (DC, AC, LV, HV, communication systems/SCADA, Earthing, UPS & Battery charger sizing, Lightning protection and Illumination Calculation etc.,).
• Preparation of Design Documents such as RFP, GTP etc.
• Preparation of drawing for various projects such as Conceptualization, Tendering, Execution and As-Built Drawings.
• Preparation of Power flow scheme DC SLD, AC SLD, and Auxiliary supply SLD.
• Preparing reports for Pre-feasibility, detailed feasibility, energy yield assessment and DPR.
• Sound knowledge in design areas of Solar Plant Layouts, SLD, engineering drawings, and other electrical requirements for large-scale solar power plants.
• Design calculations for voltage drop, losses, earthing , LA and others.
• Developing design documents/drawings using AutoCAD, PVSyst, SOLAR GIS, SketchUp, Dialux, Cymcab, Cymgrid, Etap and other tools.
• Knowledge of electrical components/system design, identification of right specification according to the Tender/project as per the IS/IEC standards.
• Sound knowledge in cables, transformer, switchgear, earthing and protection system.
• Willingness to travel as per requirement.