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Technical Advisor

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The Technical Advisor will design electrical systems for oil, gas, and renewable energy projects, ensuring compliance with specifications, safety, and reliability. Responsibilities include leading design efforts, liaising with teams, and preparing specifications and calculations.
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Technical Advisor

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KBR Sustainable Technology Solutions (STS) provides holistic and value-added solutions across the entire asset life cycle. These include world-class licensed process technologies, differentiated advisory services, deep technical domain expertise, energy transition solutions, high-end design capabilities, and smart solutions to optimize planned and operating assets.

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As part of the electrical engineering team you will be involved in the design of electrical systems for the oil and gas and/or power including renewable energies industries. This may be a conceptual study or front-end engineering design (FEED) or a design execution involving, the procurement of all equipment and detailed drawings for the construction and commissioning of an entire facility.

Responsibilities:
▪ Involved in projects from concept to detailed design through construction, testing and handover.
▪ Working in a multi-disciplinary project team, which is likely to include engineers from other specialisms including mechanical, structural, civil and instrumentation. liaising with clients and contractors.
▪ Taking a leading role in the design of electrical system to required specifications, focusing on cost, schedule, safety, reliability, and quality.
▪ Select and apply the relevant codes and standards applicable to the design of electrical systems.
▪ Designing systems and electrical equipment’s for example, HV and LV switchgear, transformers, UPS systems and variable speed drives.
▪ Creating and interpreting and checking philosophies, design specifications, data sheets, schematics and layout drawings for oil and gas onshore and offshore installations.
▪ Estimating and planning man hours for scopes of work.
▪ Creating suitable engineering solutions for extreme environments such temp from minus fifty degrees to fifty plus degrees.
▪ Chairing meetings, writing reports and giving presentations.
▪ Preparation of electrical equipment technical specifications, design basis, and data sheets, etc
▪ Preparation of design calculations for transformer, switchgear, emergency diesel generator (EDG), battery, uninterruptible power supply (UPS), lighting, earthing, and lightning protection, etc
▪ More knowledge is required for the single-line diagram, protection and metering drawings, schematic diagrams, etc.
▪ More knowledge is required for the preparation load list, cable schedule, interconnection schedule, etc
▪ All plant layouts including substation equipment layout
▪ Vendor drawing review of electrical equipment.

Qualifications including Required Education, Experience, & Skills:
▪ Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering with 15 to 20 years of experience
▪ Proficient in electrical engineering software’s (ETAP / SKM / lighting Agi32 / Aveva Electrical Engineering / SPEL) is required.
▪ Excellent communication, and interpersonal skills.
▪ Experience in the fields of Oil & Gas, Petrochemical, refinery, Offshore and Utilities & Offsites related to industry.

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