Protection Engineer Site Supervision

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.
• Responsible for review of inspection and 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 the testing and commissioning of all protection equipment and ensure the protection and control philosophy is correctly implemented at site as per client specification.
• Be well versed with the protection devices of major OEMs - Siemens, GE (Alstom), and ABB; frequently assist the client for implementation of important protection like cable differential/distance, transformer differential & REF, bus bar differential (low impedance and high impedance), and reactor differential.
• Ensure all protection and control signals are configured to substation SCADA (IEC61850) and national control centre (IEC104).
• Witness the testing of automatic voltage regulator (AVR) schemes for transformer and reactor.
• Verify protection and control schematics based on protection requirements.
• Troubleshoot faults in substations related to protection and control and provide corrective actions to client.
• Review 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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