Protection Engineer-Site Supervision
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WSP in the Middle East is hiring a Protection Site Engineer to supervise, test, commission, and maintain protection systems in substations, power plants, and transmission/distribution networks.
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Responsibilities
- Review of contractors’ design drawings and Design approval
- Review of inspection & testing procedure, FAT/SAT formats, method statements
- Verify relay setting calculations for existing and new protection devices
- Verify adequacy checks for current and voltage transformer calculations
- Witness testing and commissioning of all protection equipment and ensure correct implementation of protection and control philosophy
- Assist client for implementation of important protection like Cable Differential/Distance, Transformer Differential & REF, Bus bar Differential, and Reactor Differential
- Ensure all protection and control signals are configured to substation SCADA (IEC61850) and National Control Centre (IEC104)
- Witness testing of Automatic Voltage Regulator (AVR) schemes for Transformer and Reactor
- Verify protection and control schematics based on protection requirement
- Troubleshoot faults in substations related to protection and control and provide corrective actions to client
- Review method statements submitted by contractor to ensure safe and reliable protection stability testing of Cable, Transformer, Reactor and Busbar
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical / Power Engineering (or equivalent)
- Minimum 6 years of experience in protection and control engineering (substations / transmission & distribution / power plants)
- Hands on experience with protection relays (Siemens, ABB, GE, Schneider, SEL, etc.)
- Knowledge of relay coordination, fault analysis, and power system protection schemes (distance, differential, overcurrent, etc.)
- Familiarity with testing tools (Omicron, Doble, Megger, etc.)
- Strong knowledge of IEC, IEEE, and local utility standards
- Excellent problem solving and troubleshooting skills
- Strong communication and site management skills
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Job Description
- The Protection Site Engineer will be responsible for supervising, testing, commissioning, and maintaining protection systems in substations, power plants, and transmission/distribution networks.
- The role ensures reliable operation of protection schemes, compliance with standards, and safe execution of site works.
Responsibilities
- Review of contractors’ design drawings and Design approval.
- Will be responsible for review of inspection & testing procedure, FAT/SAT formats, method statements.
- Verify relay setting calculations for existing and new protection devices.
- Verify adequacy checks for current and voltage transformer calculations.
- Witnessing the testing and commissioning of all protection equipment and ensuring the protection and control philosophy is correctly implemented at site as per client specification.
- Being well versed with the protection devices of major OEMs Siemens, GE(Alstom) and ABB, frequently assists the client for implementation of important protection like Cable Differential/Distance, Transformer Differential & REF, Bus bar Differential (Low Impedance and High Impedance) and Reactor Di
- Ensuring all protection and control signals are configured to substation SCADA(IEC61850) and Nation Control Centre (IEC104).
- Witnessing the testing of Automatic Voltage Regulator (AVR) schemes for Transformer and Reactor.
- Verify protection and control schematics based on protection requirement.
- Troubleshooting of the faults in the substations related to protection and control and providing corrective actions to client.
- Review of method statements submitted by the contractor to ensure safe and reliable protection stability testing of the Cable, Transformer, Reactor and Busbar.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical / Power Engineering (or equivalent).
- Minimum 6 years of experience in protection and control engineering (substations / transmission & distribution / power plants).
- Hands on experience with protection relays (Siemens, ABB, GE, Schneider, SEL, etc.).
- Knowledge of relay coordination, fault analysis, and power system protection schemes (distance, differential, overcurrent, etc.).
- Familiarity with testing tools (Omicron, Doble, Megger, etc.).
- Strong knowledge of IEC, IEEE, and local utility standards.
- Excellent problem solving and troubleshooting skills.
- Strong communication and site management skills.
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