Technip Energies

Engineering and technology solutions for energy

Lead Electrical Engineer

Electrical EngineeringConfirmed live in the last 24 hours

Full-timeKuala Lumpur, Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur, MalaysiaNo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

A Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering accredited by the Board of Engineer Malaysia or an approved equivalent is required.
At least 15 years of postgraduate experience in electrical engineering design for onshore or offshore applications is required.
Professional Engineer registration with the local board or an approved equivalent is preferred.
Site experience or experience with an original equipment manufacturer for 2 to 4 years is requested.
The candidate must be willing to travel and be stationed at various Engineering Operating Centers or client offices for overseas assignments.
The candidate must maintain professional relationships with clients, peers, equipment vendors, and suppliers.
Good professional feedback from past employers or clients is expected.
In-depth knowledge of electrical design techniques and analysis methods is required.
Detailed knowledge of applicable theory, content, standards, codes, and guidelines for onshore and offshore projects is required.
Knowledge of project management, coordination, and execution strategy is required.
Experience across conceptual, pre-FEED, FEED, EPC, EPCM, PMC, and detailed engineering phases for onshore/offshore oil, gas, and petrochemical projects is required.
Knowledge of man-hour and material cost estimation, and resource planning and management, is required.
Knowledge of international and local codes and standards, applicable local laws, and regulatory requirements is required.
The candidate must understand client specifications, including PTS and DEP, and ensure service meets contract requirements.
The candidate must be able to interpret codes and standards, identify discrepancies, troubleshoot, and resolve problems.
The candidate must be able to review contractual documents and invitations to bid, and raise clarifications about ambiguity, missing definitions, references, or areas of doubt.
The candidate must be able to provide technical support and advisory services to project execution teams, align project requirements, identify challenges, and develop cost-effective solutions.
The candidate must be able to support the Head of Electrical Department in maintaining the quality of design outputs and developing staff training methods.
The candidate must be able to identify cost-saving options and energy-efficiency measures when requested and available.
The candidate must be able to lead proposal activities and optimize cost, schedule, and compliance.
The candidate must be able to review project budgets and scopes, and establish execution boundaries and guidelines.
The candidate must be able to conduct peer reviews and audits at selected design milestones, create evaluation methods, and support continuous improvement.
The candidate must remain current on industry practices and international and company standards.
The candidate must be able to inspect vendor works and workshops when required and support vendor selection.
The candidate must be able to resolve issues involving equipment testing or operation, including failures, deficiencies, underperformance, and discrepancies.
The candidate must be able to participate in client HAZOP meetings with other engineering disciplines and close out action items.
The candidate must be able to interface with construction sites and commissioning engineers, provide clarification and technical support, and assist with startup when required.
The candidate must be able to develop electrical engineering work guidelines and checklists using project experience and lessons learned.
The candidate must be able to prepare or guide preparation of man-hour estimates, manpower allocations, schedules, special-study reports, engineering guidelines and checklists, and execution strategies.
The candidate must be able to review vendor documents for compliance with codes, standards, local regulations, project requirements, and discipline requirements.
The candidate must be able to interface with piping, process, civil, structural, and instrumentation disciplines, understand interface issues, and resolve conflicts.
The candidate must be able to conduct vendor document review meetings and support vendors to shorten review duration and maintain project progress.
The candidate must understand equipment manufacturing processes, long-lead components, critical specifications, critical elements and paths, and their effects on equipment delivery.
The candidate must anticipate and take appropriate action to improve vendor equipment delivery schedules.
The candidate must be able to plan, organize, and direct discipline execution on assigned projects, including scope, deliverables, schedule, and manpower resources, agreeing allocations with the Head of Department.
The candidate must identify interfaces and deliverables, monitor progress and productivity, and identify corrective actions when needed.
The candidate must review contract requirements, resolve discrepancies from the original proposal or FEED, define scope, and prepare technical deliverable lists, man-hour estimates, and schedules.
The candidate must plan and schedule man-hours across conceptual, pre-FEED, FEED, EPC, EPCM, and PMC project phases.
The candidate must advise the Head of Department on the manpower and skill levels needed for project execution.
The candidate must distribute and assign work to the project team to meet schedules.
The candidate must manage development of detailed engineering calculations and drawings and ensure applicable lessons learned are discussed and applied.
The candidate must conduct regular team meetings, address project progress, priorities, and issues, and determine actions to meet requirements, schedule, and quality expectations.
The candidate must ensure effective communication and coordination among team members.
The candidate must establish a project filing system and ensure compliance with project requirements and department standards.
The candidate must liaise with other departments, disciplines, clients, and third parties as required.
The candidate is responsible for the quality of work produced and must prepare discipline close-out reports when projects are completed.
The candidate must act as the discipline Project Engineer to ensure execution within specified schedules and budgets.
The candidate must conduct technical audits at the Head of Department's request and investigate and resolve quality complaints or incidents raised by interested parties, clients, or project managers.
The candidate must anticipate, escalate, and communicate issues effectively and promptly.
The candidate must exercise professional judgment, respond proactively to equipment deliverables and project needs, and handle situations arising from project complexity.
The candidate must produce quality engineering deliverables and services that meet joint-venture and client expectations, and fulfill quality assurance, quality, health, safety, and environmental requirements.

Responsibilities

Provide technical guidance and practical solutions to address project execution challenges and operational needs.
Mentor and coach engineers and design team members, and champion team results.
Serve as the reference person for electrical engineering workflows, sequencing, and project management.
Assist in developing the department's strategy and progress.
Manage team resources and assign tasks according to team members' skills.
Plan team work to meet project milestones, man-hour budgets, costs, and schedules.
Serve as the focal point for electrical discipline activities on multidisciplinary projects.
Coordinate with project management, engineering, construction, and procurement functions.
Own electrical engineering design activities for onshore and offshore project execution.
Lead teams in project execution while maintaining quality, productivity, and morale.
Participate in equipment testing and operational issue resolution as needed.
Participate in HAZOP meetings and follow through on action items.
Support construction and commissioning activities, including startup assistance.
Conduct vendor document reviews and coordinate with other disciplines and vendors.
Manage discipline execution, project deliverables, schedules, resources, and team progress.
Communicate and coordinate with clients, other disciplines, departments, and third parties.
Ensure project work meets technical, contractual, quality, schedule, and budget requirements.

Desired Qualifications

Professional Engineer registration with the local board or an approved equivalent.
Site experience or experience with an original equipment manufacturer for 2 to 4 years.

Be part of the solution at Technip Energies and embark on a one-of-a-kind journey. You will be helping to develop cutting-edge solutions to solve real-world energy problems.

We are currently seeking a Technical Advisor / Principal Engineer to join our team based in Kuala Lumpur.

Successful candidates will be offered Fixed Term Contract.

About us:

Technip Energies is a global technology and engineering powerhouse. With leadership positions in LNG, hydrogen, ethylene, sustainable chemistry, and CO2 management, we are contributing to the development of critical markets such as energy, energy derivatives, decarbonization, and circularity. Our complementary business segments, Technology, Products and Services (TPS) and Project Delivery, turn innovation into scalable and industrial reality.

Through collaboration and excellence in execution, our 17,000+ employees across 34 countries are fully committed to bridging prosperity with sustainability for a world designed to last.

About the mission we offer you:

Play key roles on department activities and provide input/alignment on operational needs within department or project teams.
Provides technical guidances and effective navigation to address project execution challenges. Knowledgable to always provide practical way forward in technical and operational challenges.
Approachable and effective mentoring skillsets.Champion team results.
Ability to coach and mentor engineers and design team.
Reference person for electrical engineering workflow/sequence and project management.
Assist in strategising and chartering the development and progress of the department.

In the roles as Lead Engineer

Effective resource management of the team and ability to assign tasks efficiently by leveraging on team member’s skillsets.
Plan work tasks efficiently and effectively for the team to meet the project milestones of mhrs, cost and project schedules
Focal point for Electrical discipline activities in multi-disciplinary project.
Coordinate and anticipate cross funtional department (PMD/ECP/Procurement) for synergy.
Ownership responsibility for electrical engineering design activities on Onshore /Offshore project execution.

Main Challenges

Inclusive leadership in leading a team in effective project execution. Keep quality,productivity and team morale at optimum level.
Knowledgeable in project management/coordination and execution strategy.
In-depth knowledge of electrical design techniques and analysis methods.
Detailed knowledge of theory, content and application of standards, codes and guidelines as applicable for onshore/offshore projects.
Well versed with manhour and material cost estimates.
Resources planning and management for efficient project execution.
Experience in various project phases : Conceptual, Pre-FEED, FEED, EPC, EPCM, PMC, Detailed Engineering related to Onshore/Offshore Oil-Gas/Petrochemicalprojects.

Main Accountabilities

1)DESIGN BASIS, CODE & STANDARD

•In depth understanding and applying knowledge of International and Local Codes and Standards, identify descripancy, competent to resolve problems/trouble shoot based on Codes & Standards interpretation.

•Understand limitation of Codes and Standards, knowledge of Local laws and applicable regulatory requirements and apply with accuracy and effectiveness.

•In-depth understanding of Client’s specification (e.g. PTS, DEP etc.) and provide service which meet contract requirements

•Review and raise clarifications on the Contractual documents / ITB (Invitation to Bid) in case of ambiguity in definition / lack of clarity / lack of reference/ areas of doubt etc. based on experience /judgment.

2)KNOWLEDGE OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING ACTIVITIES

•Provide technical support and advisory role to project execution team. Responsible to align project requirements, identify challenges and provide cost effective solution.

•Assist Head of Electrical Department in ensuring good quality design outputs, as per the relevant procedures.

•Assist in developing training methods for staff.

•Competent to explore cost-saving options / energy efficient measures during project execution phase,if requested, and if available.

•Focal point for proposal activities and drives for optimum cost, schedule and compliance to requirement.

•Review budget and scope for awarded projects. Outline boundary and guidelines for execution team.

•Perform Peer Review/Audit on project design at selected milestones. Create evaluation methodology and seek for continuous improvement.

•Custodian for latest development on Industry practices, International and Company standards. Uptodate with latest practices.

•Competant to inspect vendor works and workshops when required, to help in selection of Vendors.

•Competent to participate effectively to resolve any issues related to equipment testing/during operation, in case of failures/deficiencies /under-performance /discrepancy during testing / operation.

•Participate in HAZOP meeting with the client and representatives of other engineering disciplines and close out of any action points.

•Competant to Interface and provide clarification, guidance and technical support to construction sites and commissioning engineers. Provide startup assistance as required.

•Provide inputs on Electrical engineering work guidelines/checklist based on project experiences and lesson learnt.

3)WORKING DELIVERABLES

Ability to prepare or guide the team to prepare effectively in a timely and productive manner,

•Man hour estimates, man power allocation and schedules

•Special study reports ( e.g. Voltage selection, motor selection, VSD application, EMC, root-cause analysis etc.)

•Electrical engineering work guidelines / Checklist

•Execution strategy for a effective project execution.

4)VENDOR DATA REVIEW (VDR)

•Expert review on Vendor documents to meet Codes and Standards, Local Regulations, project and disciplines requirements

•Competent to interface with other disciplines like piping group, process, civil, structural and instrumentation.

•Able to understand interface issues with other disciplines, and resolve any conflict

•Able to conduct VDR meeting with vendor /support Vendor in case of needs to shorten the VDR duration and to achieve project progress.

5)EQUIPMENT MANUFACTURING KNOWLEDGE

•Understand manufacturing process, long lead components, critical specifications of equipments,critical element/ critical path and how its influence the delivery of equipment

•Able to anticipate effectively to improve delivery schedule of Vendor equipment

6)PERFORM AS LEAD ENGINEER ROLE

•Plan, organize and direct all aspects of discipline execution on the assigned project including scope, deliverables, schedule and manpower resources - agree allocations with the Head of Department.

•Ensure interfaces and deliverables are clearly identified. Maintain responsibility for progress and productivity, identifying any required corrective action.

•Participate in the review of contract requirements for project execution, identify and resolve discrepancies and divergences from original proposal, FEED etc, identify requirements and scope of work, plan and prepare the Technical document delivearble list, man-hour estimation and project schedules etc.

•Ability to identify the scope of work in various phases of projects like conceptual, pre-FEED, FEED, EPC, EPCM, PMC and accordingly plan and schedule the man hours.

•Advise Head of Department on the manpower and skill levels required, to ensure smooth execution of the project.

•Distribute and Assign work to the project team appropriately, to meet the project schedule.

•Overall manage the development of detailed engineering calculations and drawings. Ensure the lesson learnt from past projects are discussed and applied as required.

•Conduct regular team meetings to discuss about project progress, priorities and issues. Ability to resolve issues and recommand the way forward to meet project requirement and schedule adhering to the intended quality.

•Ensure proper communication and coordination among the team members.

•Establish project filing system and ensure adherence to project requirements and department standards.

•Liaise with other departments/ disciplines, clients and third parties as required by the projects.

•Be overall responsible for the quality of work produced.

•Produce the discipline close-out report once the project completed.

•Act as the discipline Project Engineer to ensure the project executed within the specified schedules and budget.

7)TECHNICAL AUDITS

•Ability to carry out technical audits at the Head of Department request (For Senior Engineer more than 10 years experience)

•Able to effectively investigate and resolve any quality complaints or incidents raised by any interested parties, or when requested by Client, or project manager.

8)OTHERS

•Ability to anticipate, escalate and communicate effectively in time.

•Good professional judgment, responsive and pro-active in execution of equipment deliverables to meet project needs, and ability to handle difficult situations arise due to complexities of Project demand Ability to anticipate, escalate and communicate effectively in time.

•Produce quality engineering deliverables / service and meeting JV/ Client expectation

•Fulfill QA /QHSES aspects, with acceptable team-works

About you:

•The Candidate shall possess a Bachelors Degree in Electrical Engineering accredited by Board of Engineer Malaysia or approved equivalent.

•Possess at least minimum 15 years of post graduate experience in the electrical engineering design experiences for onshore / offshore application.

•Preferably registered Professional Engineer (PE) with local board or approved equivalent.

Additional Information:

Be willing to travel and stationed at various Engineering Operating Centers / Client Office on needs basis (for overseas assignment)
Site or experience with OEM (2 to 4 years)
Exhibit and maintain good relationship with Client / Peers / Equipment Vendor & suppliers.
Good Professional Check (feedback) from past Employers / Clients.

Your career with us

Working at Technip Energies is an inspiring journey, filled with groundbreaking projects and dynamic collaborations. Surrounded by diverse and talented individuals, you will feel welcomed, respected, and engaged. Enjoy a safe, caring environment where you can spark new ideas, reimagine the future, and lead change. As your career grows, you will benefit from learning opportunities at T.EN University, such as The Future Ready Program, Graduate Program, and from the support of your manager through check-in moments like the Mid-Year Development Review, fostering continuous growth and development.

What’s Next?

Once receiving your system application, our recruiting team will screen and match your skills, experience, and potential team fit against the role requirements. We ask for your patience as the team completes the volume of applications with reasonable timeframe. Check your application progress periodically via personal account from created candidate profile during your application.

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About the Company

Technip Energies

Engineering and technology solutions for energy

Technip Energies provides engineering, technology, and construction solutions for the energy industry, with two segments: Projects Delivery (engineering, procurement, and construction of onshore and offshore facilities) and Technology, Products and Services (proprietary technologies, equipment, and consulting). It serves oil and gas, petrochemical, and other industrial clients worldwide, delivering technologies, products, and services alongside large-scale projects. The company differentiates itself by an integrated, end-to-end approach that blends technology development with project delivery, a portfolio of proprietary technologies, and a global footprint across Europe, the Americas, Asia-Pacific, and the Middle East & Africa, with emphasis on energy transition topics like LNG, hydrogen, and carbon capture. Its goal is to help customers meet energy needs and transition objectives by providing practical, scalable engineering and technology solutions for complex energy projects.

Company size: 10,001+
Company stage: IPO
Headquarters: Paris, France
Founded: Not listed

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