Protection Engineer-Site Supervision
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About the Role
The Protection Site Engineer will be responsible for supervising, testing, commissioning, and maintaining protection systems in substations, power plants, and transmission/distr.
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Responsibilities
- Supervise, test, commission, and maintain protection systems in substations and power plants
- Review contractor design drawings and approve designs
- Verify relay setting calculations and adequacy checks for CT/VT
- Witness testing and commissioning of protection equipment
- Ensure protection and control signals are configured to SCADA and National Control Centre
- Troubleshoot faults in substations related to protection and control
Requirements
- Experience with protection devices of major OEMs (Siemens, GE, ABB)
- Knowledge of protection schemes including Cable Differential, Transformer Differential, Busbar Differential
- Experience in testing and commissioning of protection equipment
- Familiarity with SCADA (IEC61850) and IEC104 protocols
- Ability to review design drawings and method statements
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Role Overview
- 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.
Key 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.
- 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
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