Digital Project Engineer

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This position reports to: Global Engineering Manager

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Your role and responsibilities

In this role, you will act as the focal design authority for engineering disciplines across complete assignments, supporting local units on tenders, projects, and parts of projects. You will help ensure that engineering solutions meet contract specifications, quality standards, and safety requirements, while providing technical support throughout design, testing, installation, and commissioning.

This role contributes to the Electrification Distribution Solutions Business Division and supports the EMEA region. Main stakeholders include local units, Engineering Units within Sales and Solutions Global Solutions Centers, project managers, Supply Chain, factories, and Commissioning and Service teams.

The work model for the role is #hybrid, #Li-hybrid

You will be mainly accountable for:

• Providing technical support for engineering design, primary and secondary technical documentation, testing, and installation and commissioning procedures.

• Supporting local units in preparing tender and project documentation; participating in tender and project meetings and resolving technical issues to meet contractual obligations.

• Contributing to engineering proposals, presentations, and planning, and applying design verification checklists in line with applicable standards and engineering guidelines.

• Ensuring engineering activities comply with safety regulations and contractual requirements; supporting technical risk assessments and following up on resulting actions.

• Escalating contract, safety, quality, schedule, or cost issues to Project Managers, and identifying variation requests to support contract claims, subject to Project Manager approval.

• Collaborating with Supply Chain, Project Managers, and factories to ensure technical solutions are manufactured, staged, and tested appropriately.

• Coordinating with global Commissioning and Service teams to support correct installation and commissioning, updating engineering deliverables after site activities, and sharing lessons learned.

• Sharing best practices and lessons learned across projects and disciplines, and identifying process or tool inefficiencies and opportunities for improvement.

Qualifications for the role

• You have deep knowledge of MV/LV systems and system design, including Protection and Control, Automation, and Auxiliary systems, as well as eHouse and mobile solutions.

• You bring knowledge of MV switchgear and protection functions, and experience with switchgear engineering processes in an EPC engineering environment.

• You are familiar with industrial communication protocols such as IEC 61850 and MODBUS, control and automation software such as ZENON, and protection relays such as the REx family and SSC 600, or similar technologies.

• You have a sound understanding of data center applications, including hyperscale and colocation environments.

• You have experience with commissioning activities and quality procedures for FAT and SAT.

• You communicate effectively and have strong stakeholder-management skills, enabling collaboration across functions, regions, and organizational levels.

This opportunity is open to candidates in one or more countries covered by the European Pay Transparency Directive. The final work location will depend on the selected candidate. As pay may vary by location, compensation details will be shared with candidates who progress to the first interview stage.

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