Lead Electrical Engineer
Consolidated Contractors International Company S.A.L
Total years of experience :19 years, 10 Months
• Contributed to project activities, including preparing projects’ man-hours and scope of work during the proposal stage.
• Reviewed and supervised electrical technical and techno-commercial issues, while evaluating, managing, and overseeing the project’s technical issues and power studies, including short circuit, load flow, and motor starting.
• Ensured development drawings checked and completed in an efficient and timely manner.
• Reviewed job specifications for alignment with contractual requirements.
• Developed electrical engineering designs conforming to the contractual requirements and applicable codes. Participated in the project’s design review.
• Managed and monitored design changes as related to the original scope.
• Oversaw electrical team man-hours and schedule of electrical deliverables.
• Reviewed hazardous area classification drawings for the proper selection of electrical equipment with respect to applicable code and assessed all drawings prior to release to ensure complete and in compliance with project instructions, client requirements, applicable codes, standards, and specifications.
• Resolving conflicts occurring during project execution to minimize project risk, analyzing project reports and action logs to investigate unforeseen problems and deviations from project plan, and reporting project progress and performance to management.
• Other essential project tasks include: replying to bidders’ clarifications during bidding stage, updating scope of work and design basis based on tender bulletin clarification, managing, expediting, and supporting consultants’ and contractor document submittals, budgets, and schedules, and monitoring and analyzing contractor performance in scheduling, cost, and budget forecasting.
• Designed all detailed drawings of: cabling activities, including cable routing layouts, cable sections and road crossing details, electrical power cable block diagrams and relevant power installation details; lighting activities., including lighting layouts, lighting distribution schedules, lighting block diagrams, lighting elevation drawings and relevant
Lighting installation details; earthing activities, including earthing layouts, lightning protection layouts and relevant earthing installation details.
• Low and High- voltage switchgears substations, including substation equipment layouts, substation cable routing drawings, substation cable routing details and substation elevation drawings; and one-line diagrams, including key one-line diagrams, elementary one-line diagrams for low- and high-voltage switchgears. And detailed protection/metering one-line diagrams.
• Prepared electrical power system calculations, including load analysis, short circuit, cables sizing, lighting, earthing, generator sizing and power factor improvement calculations. Analyzed power system network using ETAP software.
• Designed hazardous area classification drawings for proper selection of electrical equipment. Prepared material requisition either for main equipment or electrical bulk materials, including preparation of specifications, data sheets, supplier document requirements, minimum quality surveillances and application sheets. Participated in evaluation of received bids.
• Prepared technical evaluation reports and material requisition for purchase. Assisted in cycle of vendor prints review. Inspected and tested electrical equipment. Served as construction supervision for electrical systems installations at site. Assisted in commissioning and start-up of electrical systems at site. Prepared man-hour estimate and scope of work for proposals stage.
• Sizing Calculation of Electrical Distribution Boards and LV, MV Switchgears.
• Preparation of Single Line Diagrams and Protection Schemes.
• Allocation of Material required to build LV Switchgears and MV Switchgears and ordering the same.
• Follow up Material Delivery Schedule.
• Performing and Assisting Factory Acceptance Test and Site Acceptance Test.