India Design Manager / Lead Engineer

We are Sisco Jobs, a recruitment consultancy based in Trichy, Tamil Nadu. We are hiring on behalf of our client for the position of India Design Manager / Lead Engineer in Trichy, Tamil Nadu . Our client is seeking a highly experienced engineering professional to lead an India-based multidisciplinary design team delivering high-voltage transmission and grid-infrastructure engineering for UK programmes. The position owns design integration, technical governance, quality, programme interfaces, and the issue of coordinated and independently checked engineering deliverables. Key Responsibilities - Establish and manage project design plans, deliverables schedules, resource plans, responsibility matrices, and design assurance strategies. - Lead multidisciplinary teams covering primary electrical, protection/control/SCADA, cable systems, civil/structural, and BIM/digital disciplines. - Coordinate engineering activities across concept design, detailed design, and construction-support stages. - Chair design reviews, technical risk reviews, interface meetings, and constructability reviews while maintaining actions, assumptions, constraints, and decision records. - Ensure engineering designs are safe, buildable, maintainable, and compliant with applicable UK requirements and IEC/BS/ENA standards. - Control design inputs and outputs including calculations, drawings, specifications, reports, models, schedules, technical queries, deviations, and changes. - Define checking and approval routes and ensure appropriate independent technical reviews are completed before deliverables are issued. - Manage interfaces with UK stakeholders, suppliers, and construction/site teams while coaching engineers and developing repeatable engineering processes. Required Skills - HV Substation & Transmission Engineering: Strong technical understanding of 400/220/132/33 kV environments. - Multidisciplinary Design Integration: Ability to coordinate electrical, protection/control/SCADA, cable, civil/structural, and BIM/digital engineering. - Design Assurance: Experience establishing checking, independent review, approval, and technical assurance processes. - Technical Governance: Ability to control engineering inputs, outputs, technical risks, queries, deviations, interfaces, and changes. - Engineering Leadership: Capability to lead discipline engineers, assess competency, support recruitment, and develop engineering processes. Preferred Skills - Experience delivering engineering for UK grid-infrastructure programmes. - Strong exposure to constructability reviews and construction-support engineering. - Experience supporting tenders, work-package definition, effort estimation, and lessons-learned processes. Work Experience Requirements Candidates must have 15+ years of relevant professional experience , including substantial hands-on responsibility for multidisciplinary engineering deliverables. Experience must include high-voltage power, transmission, substations, utilities, or directly comparable critical infrastructure , with senior responsibility for design coordination, assurance, and technical governance. Education - Minimum: Typical — Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Power Engineering, or a closely related engineering discipline. - Preferred: Typical — Postgraduate engineering qualification or relevant professional engineering credential. - Additional: Typical — Chartered/professional engineering status or relevant power-system/design-management certification would be advantageous.