Electrical Design Manager

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This position reports to:

Principal Designer

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ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES

Core Responsibilities

Technical contribution

Creates / reviews complete project documents for conformity, safety, and quality assurance.

Reviews, adjusts design as necessary based on output of design to meet the contractual obligations.

Optimizes designs to meet updated standards, incorporating new products, components, and functionalities.

Customer and Sales

Seeks feedback from the customer to drive and deliver improvement of technical solutions.

Contributes to the preparation of specific aspects of design assignments to meet the contractual obligations, adhering to relevant standards, safety, cybersecurity, and quality.

Participates in project meetings and presents specific aspects of design assignments.

Technical leadership and knowledge sharing

Applies basic design thinking or design for excellence concepts in projects.

Performs project peer-reviews, utilizing checklists to perform design verification according to applicable standards and engineering guidelines.

Contributes to and shares experiences in workshops pertaining to engineering design, tools, and processes.

Shares best practices and lessons-learned documentation across different projects.

Processes and tools

Creates standard processes and tools to promote the reuse of technical solutions, innovation, and productivity in the design team.

Ensures 2D, 3D, and other modelling tools usage to promote innovation and productivity.

Reports process and tool inefficiencies and suggests ideas for improvement.

Risk and opportunity management

Assesses and addresses technical risks and opportunities.

Contract management

Ensures that Bill of Materials (BOM) for the project meets contractual obligations and project gross margin requirements by not generating Project Left-Over Material (PLOM).

Identifies and implements variation requests to support contract claims based on the approval from project manager.

Planning and control

Creates work plans and cost estimates for the portfolio of projects, in consultation with respective project managers.

Ensures quality and timely implementation of projects within the targeted cost.

Supply Chain management

Prepares RFQs to meet contractual requirements and provides technical evaluation of suppliers’ proposals.

Collaborates with the supply chain function and project manager(s) to meet the contractual requirements.

Manufacturing and Testing

Coordinates with manufacturing and testing functions to ensure the designs are appropriately manufactured / staged and tested.

Ensures the engineering deliverables as built are updated.

Commissioning and Service

Coordinates with commissioning / service functions to ensure the designs are appropriately installed and commissioned and ensures the engineering deliverables are updated post installation & commissioning (if applicable as part of the contract)

License to Operate / Core Values

Reports any integrity, compliance, safety, cybersecurity, quality, contract, program, and cost issues to the management and/or project manager(s) for resolution.

Ensures that engineering activities and deliverables comply with required safety and cybersecurity regulations and standards and contractual requirements.

Ensures that Bill of Materials (BOM) for the project meets contractual obligations.

Identifies and implements change / variation requests based on the approval from project manager.

Ensures the project meets the technical requirements and is technically completed as part of contract closure activities.

Collaboration / Leadership

Works closely with project manager right from the receipt of contract/order till closure to meet the technical requirements of the contract.

Prepares RFQs to meet contractual requirements and provides technical evaluation of suppliers’ proposals, in collaboration with the supply chain function and the project manager(s).

Coordinates with the manufacturing and testing functions to ensure the designs are appropriately manufactured / staged and tested.

Coordinates with commissioning / service functions to ensure the designs are appropriately installed and commissioned (if applicable as part of the contract).

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