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Protection Engineer-Site Supervision

Job in Doha, Baladīyat ad Dawḩah, Qatar
Listing for: WSP
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-07-03
Job specializations:
  • Engineering
    Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineer, Test Engineer
Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 254823 - 327629 QAR Yearly QAR 254823.00 327629.00 YEAR
Job Description & How to Apply Below

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 & , Bus bar Differential (Low Impedance and High Impedance) and Reactor Differential.
  • Ensuring all protection and control signals are configured to substation SCADA(IEC
    61850) and Nation Control Centre (IEC
    104).
  • 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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