A global consultancy and engineering firm specializing in the energy sector, is seeking an experienced Senior Asset Specialist to lead technical advisory on complex projects spanning gas, coal, and renewable power plants, with a strong focus on upgrades, modifications, and operational improvements.
Key Responsibilities
- Provides guidance and direction on department design guides, standards, systems, applicable engineering codes
- Assists in developing, maintaining and updating engineering standards
- Provides technical guidance to others regarding projects and disciplines
- Prepares a variety of complex engineering deliverables for larger or multiple projects
- Performs complex research and develops recommendations for equipment and/or materials selection
- Oversees collection, assimilation, and management of data for engineering work
- Prepares complex engineering calculations following standard methods and principles
- Manages assigned budget, schedule, and quality requirements
- Independently applies advanced engineering techniques and analysis problems and methods
- Responsible for one or more of the following: leading larger production teams; coordinating multiple discipline activity; and serving as the responsible charge for a project
- Actively coordinates with all other internal/external team members on moderately complex projects
- Responsible for assisting with identification of key client interests and drivers on moderately complex projects and may determine the key clients in some instances
- Communicates client interests and drivers to project team members and develops approaches to accommodate these concerns in the performance of the work on moderately complex projects
- Serves as a technical specialist and has knowledge and skill set to provide consultation and guidance to project teams in a particular practice area
- Supports multiple projects on the complex technical challenges
- Develops and applies advanced engineering concepts and approaches to unique engineering problems
- Assists with performance management process, mentoring, recognition, and any corrective actions required
- Implements resource management strategy
- Manages engineering resources for small groups of a single discipline
- Administrative responsibilities may include office administration (approval of timesheets and expense reports)
- Ensures policies, procedures, and processes are effectively implemented and communicated for workgroup
- Ensures adherence to corporate and division programs
Preferred Qualifications
- 7+ years of experience in Technical advisory preferably around O&M and Engineering services, engineering modification and upgrades in gas / coal plant
- Experience around other generation technologies like renewables, geothermal, hydro is of added advantage
- Construction management / supervision experience
- Experience in proposal development would be an added advantage.
- Graduation in mechanical engineering, other disciplines may be considered with right work experience; Post-graduation is an advantage.
- Certifications is an advantage - IAM certificate, CMRP, CAMA, AEE Energy Manager, BEE Energy Manager and Auditor
- Proficient in Microsoft office suite, especially Microsoft excel. Exposure to other management tools would be a plus
- Industry knowledge capability:
- Technical advisory preferably around O&M and Engineering services
- Fuel switch/ flexibility supports like co-firings, fuel blending.
- Technical modifications for boiler, turbines, generators, pumps, electrical and I&C system etc.
- Decommissioning and repurposing services
- Familiarity with usages of different analytics tools such as Asset Performance Management (APM), ERP, EAM,PI,Alarm Management, PowerBI etc.
- Knowledgeable and hands on practice in performing the below activities:
- Criticality Assessment
- Fault Tree Analysis
- Weibull Tree Analysis
- Root-Cause Failure Analysis
- Single Point of Failure studies
- LCCA (Life Cycle cost Analysis)
- Advanced knowledge of engineering design principles and applicable design guides and standards related to assigned engineering discipline
