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Posted 2 Sep 2026

Senior Team Leader - Electrical

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Employment
Full time
Team
TTS
Posted
2 Sep 2026

About the role

Senior Team Leader – Electrical

Business Unit: Turner Technical Services (TTS)
Location: Mumbai / Bengaluru
Discipline: Electrical


Role Overview

The Senior Team Leader – Electrical will lead a team providing electrical engineering and project-management support for US-based construction projects. The role is responsible for ensuring timely, accurate, and high-quality project delivery while providing technical leadership, managing team performance, coordinating with stakeholders, and supporting project controls, closeout, commercial management, risk, quality, and safety.

Job Responsibilities Team Leadership & Delivery Management
  • Lead, mentor, coach, and develop electrical engineers and project support professionals.
  • Plan and allocate resources based on project priorities, workload, technical complexity, and delivery schedules.
  • Establish clear responsibilities, performance expectations, and delivery timelines.
  • Monitor productivity, quality, utilization, and adherence to project milestones.
  • Conduct team meetings, project reviews, one-to-one discussions, and performance evaluations.
  • Identify competency gaps and support technical training, cross-training, and development plans.
  • Promote accountability, collaboration, continuous improvement, and timely issue resolution.
  • Serve as the escalation point for technical, operational, and project-delivery issues.
  • Support recruitment, onboarding, and integration of new team members.
Electrical Engineering & Technical Oversight
  • Provide technical leadership and engineering oversight for electrical workstreams across assigned projects.
  • Review electrical engineering deliverables for accuracy, constructability, coordination, completeness, and compliance.
  • Guide teams in interpreting contract documents, drawings, specifications, scope requirements, and applicable project standards.
  • Review RFIs, submittals, technical queries, and supporting technical documentation before submission.
  • Ensure proposed RFI responses and technical solutions are technically sound.
  • Coordinate with other disciplines to resolve design conflicts, interface issues, and constructability concerns.
  • Manage electrical engineering registers, trackers, logs, and project information.
  • Drive standardization of engineering processes, templates, checklists, and quality-control procedures.
Project Coordination & Stakeholder Management
  • Act as a key interface between the offshore engineering team and US-based project teams.
  • Participate in trade partner meetings, project huddles, owner meetings, design coordination meetings, and internal reviews.
  • Communicate project priorities, risks, dependencies, and required actions to teams and stakeholders.
  • Track project tasks and issues through timely resolution.
  • Coordinate with project managers, superintendents, design consultants, trade partners, vendors, and internal support teams.
  • Prepare project status updates, performance reports, risk summaries, and recovery plans.
  • Escalate critical risks, scope gaps, schedule concerns, and commercial issues with appropriate recommendations.
Document Control & Project Closeout
  • Manage document-control processes and ensure compliance with company and client standards.
  • Maintain current contract documents, drawings, specifications, addenda, RFIs, submittals, and revisions.
  • Monitor document workflows, approvals, revision histories, and outstanding actions.
  • Identify and mitigate risks associated with incomplete, outdated, conflicting, or incorrectly distributed documents.
  • Conduct quality audits of project documentation and implement corrective actions.
  • Lead closeout activities for assigned electrical scopes.
  • Establish closeout plans, trackers, submission schedules, responsibilities, and quality requirements.
  • Oversee as-built documentation, O&M manuals, warranties, testing records, commissioning documentation, and client-turnover deliverables.
  • Monitor closeout progress and ensure contractual timelines are achieved.
  • Capture lessons learned and implement improvements on future projects.
Budget & Commercial Management
  • Support the setup, review, and administration of project budgets and approval/audit workflows.
  • Review trade-partner proposals and change documentation for scope accuracy, assumptions, exclusions, and budget compliance.
  • Identify scope gaps, commercial risks, and potential cost impacts.
  • Support payment applications, including setup, draw management, document verification, and approval tracking.
  • Support management and review of the Checks Held Report and other financial-control reports.
  • Monitor electrical budgets, commitments, forecast changes, and cost-related risks.
  • Coordinate with project and commercial teams to ensure accurate and timely financial documentation.
Risk, Quality, Safety & Continuous Improvement
  • Identify technical, contractual, schedule, commercial, and delivery risks.
  • Develop mitigation plans, assign actions, and monitor risks through closure.
  • Ensure compliance with project quality requirements, internal procedures, and applicable safety expectations.
  • Incorporate safety considerations into engineering reviews and project planning.
  • Conduct root-cause analysis for recurring quality or delivery issues and implement preventive actions.
  • Establish and monitor KPIs for quality, responsiveness, productivity, and schedule adherence.
  • Drive continuous improvement through automation, process standardization, knowledge sharing, and lessons learned.

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