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Job Description Summary

GE Grid Solutions is serving customers globally with over 20,000 employees in around 80 countries. Grid Solutions equips 90% of power utilities worldwide to bring power reliably and efficiently from the point of generation to the end power consumers.

For Grid Solutions, Offshore HVDC represents a key differentiating technology and a central focus for the business, particularly in Europe where Transmission System Operators have very ambitious renewable energy targets. In that context and for Germany, Grid Solutions participates in projects deploying new HVDC converter stations to bring Offshore Wind energy into Germany.

Grid solutions is looking for a Tendering Engineering Manager in charge of the complete technical offering of HVDC substations.

Job Description

Project management

• Scope of work & time schedule

• Accountable for consolidation of technical tender deliverables list issue with submission dates and global time schedule of tender engineering activities.

• Issue Engineering DOR with the split of the engineering scope of work between all involved project parties

• Perform the follow up of critical activities

• Lead and ensure the coordination between all GE technical teams involved in the tender

• Time delivery mastering

• Support Engineering Discipline Leaders to anticipate and mitigate delivery issues

• Ensure technical disciplines are Coordinated in terms of interfaces and synchronization

• Lead and animate the technical coordination sessions, design reviews and technical validation meetings

Budget and Resources

• Accountable for the definition of the project engineering budget in term of man-hours and resources

Tender strategy & risk management

• Define the tender technical strategy and ensure that it is followed by all involved GE technical tendering teams

• Consolidate the whole project technical risks & opportunities and the corresponding mitigation/ action plan

• Implement a design freeze process for the tender and validate the design freeze following relevant design reviews and technical risks assessment for the project

• elaborate the execution design strategy in collaboration with the Project COE ITO Engineering leader and Project COE OTR Engineering Operation leader and the support of a Project Engineering Director. with the project COE engineering operation leader and the support of a project engineering director.

• Participate to project strategy elaboration with Project Director

• Ensure implementation of EMH guidelines

Customer relationship

• Accountable for the compliance to customer technical requirements, he/she organizes the clause by clause analysis

• Ensure with discipline leaders compliance to customer requirements

• Consolidate technical queries to customer

• Ensure that answers to customer queries are consistent and check cross impact of comment

• Manage customer technical meetings

Document & configuration management

• Organize with the proposal Manager the technical document management for the project: deliverables list, Q/R follow up, technical offer consolidation

• Validate and check consistency of the engineering documents before final release to customer and to other functions

• Coordinate the way to Track & manage identified or potential deviations

Pre-engineering expediting

• Accountable for the on-Time Delivery of the tender engineering deliverables

• Check effectiveness of design against contract requirements and look for global cost optimization

• Approve transmittal of documents to customer

• Review and validate the Bill of Quantities. Ensure that relevant BOQ are communicated to sourcing, logistics, construction.

Process & Tools

• Ensure deployment of Engineering tools (CAD, costing tools)

• Organize Design review plan and manage design review

• Integrate EHS requirements

Quality

• Comply with Quality Procedures, work instructions and Processes in EMH

• Report or resolve any non-conformances and process in a timely manner

Health and Safety

• Implement design freeze and EHS in design

• Demonstrate EHS leadership

• Actively participates in defining corrective actions when work is unsafe or when an uncontrolled risk is observed.

Desired Profile and Experience

• 10 + yrs of Engineering activities in EPC type environment in T&D, Power Gen or O&G industry

• Mastering of some engineering processes such as: Civil work, Plant configuration, control &protection hardware, System & performance studies or Electrical design

• Successful experience in project technical management

• Strong influencing and relationship building skills

• Knowledge of project execution risks and financial processes

• Willingness to travel worldwide.

• Demonstrated presentation skills and ability to succinctly communicate complex messages

• Demonstrated ability to lead in an unstructured environment and deliver results

• Flexibility, operational problem solving, innovation, focus to results

• Demonstrates ownership & accountability, judgment and decision making, influences & inspires team, creates a vision and strategy, and has passion for the role

Additional Information

Relocation Assistance Provided: No