Bilfinger is an international industrial services provider with a vision to be the No. 1 for its customers in enhancing efficiency and sustainability within the process industry. Bilfinger’s comprehensive portfolio spans the entire value chain, from consulting & engineering to prefabrication & installation, access & insulation, and services that improve the asset performance of industrial plants.
The company operates in three geography-based segments:
Western Europe, Central Europe, and International, with primary activities in Europe, North America, and the Middle East. Its process industry customers come from markets such as chemicals & petrochemicals, energy, oil & gas, and pharma & biopharma. With about 31,000 employees, Bilfinger upholds the highest standards of safety and quality, generating revenue of €5.4 billion in the financial year 2025.
To achieve its goals, Bilfinger has identified two strategic levers:
Operational Excellence to continuously improve its own efficiency and performance, and Market Expansion to strengthen customer orientation and establish Bilfinger as the partner of choice.
Location:
Ruwais, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Project: ADNOC Onshore / ADNOC Refining Facilities
Department:
Electrical Maintenance & Reliability
Employment Type:
Site-Based
The Electrical Specialist – Power System Protection will be responsible for the maintenance, testing, configuration, troubleshooting, and reliability improvement of protection relay systems across LV, MV, HV, and EHV electrical networks. The role will ensure the safe and reliable operation of power systems through effective management of protection schemes, fault analysis, relay coordination, and lifecycle support of protection equipment. Based on the relay specialist scope covering ABB, Siemens, GE, and MiCOM protection systems.
Key Responsibilities Protection Relay Maintenance- Perform maintenance, configuration, testing, and troubleshooting of protection relays including ABB Relion, Siemens SIPROTEC, GE Multilin, and MiCOM relays.
- Maintain detailed relay databases, settings files, and asset records.
- Ensure all protection systems are maintained in accordance with IEEE, IEC, ADNOC, and OEM requirements.
- Review relay performance and recommend reliability improvements.
- Execute preventive maintenance and shutdown testing of protection relays.
- Perform secondary injection testing using OMICRON and equivalent testing equipment.
- Verify protection settings, selectivity, coordination, and trip logic.
- Support commissioning, loop checking, startup, and energization activities for substations and electrical systems.
- Validate protection system modifications and upgrades.
- Conduct health assessments and condition monitoring of protection systems.
- Review protection alarms, event logs, disturbance records, and system performance trends.
- Monitor relay assets throughout their lifecycle and identify degradation or obsolescence risks.
- Develop reliability improvement programs for critical protection systems.
- Analyze electrical faults, trips, blackouts, and network disturbances.
- Retrieve and analyze disturbance records, fault reports, and COMTRADE files.
- Perform root cause analysis (RCA) and recommend corrective actions.
- Prepare technical investigation reports and provide recommendations to improve system reliability.
- Review and monitor critical spare inventories for protection systems.
- Identify spare requirements and support procurement activities.
- Manage obsolescence programs for relay hardware and software.
- Develop and implement spare preservation methodologies.
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