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Engineering Manager II

Your role and responsibilities

In this role, you will have the opportunity to act as the technical lead for all engineering activities in assignments. Each day, you will ensure the activities related to all engineering disciplines within the project are executed in an efficient and cost-effective manner. You will also showcase your expertise by acting as a design authority for a particular engineering discipline and completing the corresponding engineering assignments.The work model for the role is: Hybrid This role is contributing to the Energy Industries Business in Longmeadow You will be mainly accountable for:• Evaluates, selects, and applies standard techniques, procedures, and criteria to perform task or sequence of tasks for conventional projects with few complex features.• Executes assignments using established solutions.• Acts as a design authority (if needed) for a particular engineering discipline and completes the corresponding engineering assignments.• Acts as a technical lead and approves design deliverables.• Reviews complete project documents for conformity, safety, cybersecurity, and quality assurance requirements.• Collaborates on project installation, commissioning, and site activities, to clarify potential issues or provide solutions to rectify the engineering errors.• Provides technical support to commissioning and start-up activities.• Interacts with customers, contractors, and suppliers, attends project meetings, and presents all technical aspects of project assignments.• Finalizes the ‘fail-safe philosophy’, “secure-by-design principles”, and other key concepts as part of kick-off and design freeze meetings.• Participates in project meetings actively and resolves any outstanding technical issues to meet contractual obligations.• Assists in creating proposals for projects through coordinating the proposal documents and engineering estimates.• Assists in performing engineering risk analysis before submitting for project risk review.• Applies design thinking or design for excellence concepts in projects, including modelling, prototyping, simulation, and calculations.• Collaborates and networks with engineering colleagues within ABB.• Engages in workshops pertaining to engineering design, tools, and processes.• Builds knowledge repositories and shares best practices and lessons-learned documentation across different projects and disciplines.• Coaches the project engineers and designers on the translation of conceptual designs to engineering documentation, including modelling, prototyping, and calculations.• Leads, supervises, and coordinates teams in all engineering disciplines (both in-house and out-sourced) on low complexity projects.• Leads single or multi-discipline engineering teams of less than 10 members.• Utilizes standard processes, tools, and techniques.• Ensures that the engineering activities comply with the safety, cybersecurity regulations and standards, and contractual requirements.• Evaluates risks and opportunities and accordingly strategizes mitigation for their engineering projects/programs.• Supports the project manager in overall project risk and opportunity assessments and implementation of resulting actions.• Identifies opportunities for repeating and new businesses.• Ensures Bill of Materials (BOM) for the project meets the contractual obligations and project gross margin requirements by not generating Project Left-Over Material (PLOM).• Negotiates claims and engineering changes.• Supports project manager / contract manager in issuing claims (new scope of work, cost impact, time impact, risk quantifications including safety and cybersecurity, etc.).• Oversees the creation of subcontracts and manages the subcontractors, jointly with other involved disciplines including supply chain management.

Qualifications for the role

BSc or Bachelor of Technology Degree in Electrical/Light Current Engineering. 8+ years’ experience in the field of Automation Engineering with extensive C&I experience in Power Generation & Water industry. 800xA and Symphony Plus will be advantageous. Designing & Commissioning of HMI\\HSI\\DCS systems. Cyber Security Implementation for Industrial\\Network Systems. Industrial Network configuration and design. Professional registration with ECSA will be advantageous. Coaching and mentoring of young engineers and technicians. Ability to understand and solve automation issues by fault finding. Root Cause Analysis. Responsible for a Project team of 2 to 4 Engineers. Completed at least 2 projects in Automation.Preference will be given to previously disadvantaged candidates in line with the company's employment equity targets

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