EPC Project Head
Job Description
Company Profile:
A leading provider of advanced machinery and solutions for the pulp and paper industry, focused on innovation, quality, and sustainable growth. Its solutions are trusted by customers worldwide.
Position Overview:
The EPC Project Head will own engineering delivery across the full project lifecycle, from kick-off and design through construction support and commissioning. The role leads the engineering team, aligns disciplines, consultants, vendors, and the client, and ensures that deliverables meet codes, quality standards, and schedule commitments. This position directly influences project quality, technical compliance, and on-time execution of EPC projects.
Qualifications:
- B.E./B.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering
- 15+ years of relevant experience in EPC projects
Key Responsibilities:
- Engineering Leadership: Lead the team and own engineering from kick-off through design, construction support, and commissioning
- Requirements Review: Study specifications, scope, client requirements, design basis, and standards to define deliverables
- Coordination: Align disciplines, consultants, vendors, and the client, and manage interfaces between them
- Planning and Resources: Prepare and monitor the deliverables register, design schedule, submission plan, and resource loading
- Technical Review and Approval: Check and approve drawings, calculations, datasheets, specifications, and vendor documents within delegated authority
- Compliance and Quality: Ensure outputs meet codes, standards, safety rules, quality procedures, and client requirements
- Procurement Support: Support technical bid evaluation, vendor selection, purchase specifications, and vendor drawing approval
- Construction and Commissioning Support: Resolve site queries and design changes quickly, and support testing and commissioning
- Change and Risk Management: Control deviations and design changes, apply value engineering and constructability reviews, and manage interface risks
- Progress and Project Controls: Track progress and KPIs, take corrective action on slippages, and work with planning, contracts, and project management on schedule, cost, and scope impacts
- Document Control: Maintain revision control, review records, and as-built documentation
- Mentoring and Improvement: Develop engineers, promote standardization, and share lessons learned across projects
Skills Required:
- Proven experience managing engineering on EPC projects, including design coordination and control of engineering deliverables
- Ability to read and interpret specifications, drawings, codes, standards, and contract requirements
- Strong cross-functional coordination across engineering, procurement, construction, and commissioning
- Experience with engineering schedules, technical reviews, document control, and change management
- Strong problem-solving, communication, team leadership, and stakeholder management skills
- Preferred: Working knowledge of project planning tools (e.g., Primavera P6, MS Project) and engineering/document management systems (e.g., SmartPlant, Aconex, SharePoint)
Special Requirements:
- Proven experience managing engineering on EPC projects, including design coordination and control of engineering deliverables, specifically for large tanks
- Ability to read and interpret specifications, drawings, codes, standards, and contract requirements, with experience in engineering schedules, technical reviews, document control, and change management
- Strong cross-functional coordination across engineering, procurement, construction, and commissioning
- Ability to prepare and monitor the deliverables register, design schedule, submission plan, and resource loading
- Working knowledge of project planning tools (e.g., Primavera P6, MS Project) and engineering/document management systems (e.g., SmartPlant, Aconex, SharePoint)
