Design Lead - Solar (Electrical AC) (India)

Design Lead - Solar (Electrical AC) (India)

03 Aug
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Larsen and Toubro
|
India

03 Aug

Larsen and Toubro

India

LNT/DL-S/1778901

- REN-Renewables IC
- Chennai Head Qrs.

- Posted On 24 Jun 2026

- End Date 21 Dec 2026

- Required Experience7 - 10 years

Skills

Knowledge & Posting Location

Design 3D Bim PV Design Lead BOQ

Minimum Qualification

Bachelor of Engineering (BE)Bachelor of Technology (BTech)

Job Description

BU : EDRC - (Solar)

Job Role : Design Lead – Solar (Electrical AC)

Reports to (Job – Role) : Section Head - Solar

Reportee (Job – Role) : Design Engineer, Draughts Person

Minimum Qualification : B.E. / B. Tech., Electrical / Electrical & Electronics Engineering

Experience : 7–10 years (Must have experience in design aspects of Solar PV Power Plants / Power Distribution Projects)

Objective: As Design Lead (Electrical - AC), the person shall be capable of reviewing & executing Engineering Activities like AC SLD, Building Layouts, Earthing Layouts, Cable Sizing Calculations, Transformer Sizing, LT / HT Breakers of Solar PV Power Plants. He shall facilitate the modellers in development of BIM 3D Model for PV Solar Power plants. In addition, she / he has to coordinate with other departments including Inter-departmental checks covering Civil/ Structural, Instrumentation, MEP and others. The Design Lead (Electrical AC

) shall be required to provide support for the engineering activities covering the full cycle of works from pre-bid engineering to support during commissioning and warranty periods and to extend support to site team.

She / He shall lead a team of Design Engineers and Draughts Persons to manage the Engineering activities within budget, deliver on time and maintaining a high quality of engineering.

Key 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





- Capable of Multitasking and deliver multiple things on time

- Estimate and Plan man-hour requirements

- 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

- Collect inputs for project details (General Arrangement Drawings) from Vendors

- 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

- Submit requirement of man-hours for undertaking & reviewing of design & drawings of the project

Technical Expertise

The Design Lead (Electrical AC) is required to have an overall knowledge of equipment layouts and necessary calculations.

The Design Lead (Electrical AC) should also have detailed knowledge of Solar PV Power Plants.



She / he should have the understanding of engineering activities covering SLD Preparation, Layout Engineering, Earthing, Cable Routing, Lighting, Lightning Protection, Cable Tray Routing etc. She/he should be capable of performing design & sizing calculations of Busbar, UPS, Battery, LT Transformer, Earthing Conductor, calculations (Short circuit force.). The Design Lead (Electrical AC) is required to have knowledge on National and International Codes and Standards.

The Design Lead (Electrical AC) is required to understand and interpret the contractual technical requirements and facilitate the Project Teams as and when required.

In addition, the Design Lead (Electrical AC) should also have an overall understanding of the inter-disciplinary (Civil & Structural, Mechanical and Instrumentation) design aspects of electrical equipment.

Operating Network

Internally: Head of Engineering, Section Heads, Design Engineers, Draughts Person, Operations Team, Site Execution team & Supply Chain Management team

Externally: Clients (Site Execution & Engineering team), Consultants & Vendors

Key Performance Indicators:

- On Time Delivery

- Productivity Enhancement

- Digitalization

- Risk Identification and Mitigation

- Cost Control

- Quality Control

- Customer Satisfaction (Customer Service Report)

- Optimization of Layouts

- Incorporation of Standardization (Eliminating inefficiencies)

- Value Engineering , Innovation

Software Skills Required:

- General awareness of Dialux and MS Office.
- Desirable awareness of ETAP.

Behavioural Attributes:

- Market Insight

o Foresight

o Leveraging Opportunities

- Customer at the Core

o Sustainable Partnerships

o Anticipating Needs

o Customer Centricity

- Disruptive Innovation

o Challenge Traditional approaches

o Generate cutting-edge solutions

o Take Calculated risks

- Collaborate and influence

o Internal Stake Holders

o External Stake holders

- As defined in the DC competencies for the respective Tier

📌 Design Lead - Solar (Electrical AC) (India)
🏢 Larsen and Toubro
📍 India

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