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.

• 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 the protection and control philosophy is correctly implemented at site as per client specification.
• 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.
• Ensure all protection and control signals are configured to substation SCADA (IEC
  61850) and Nation Control Centre (IEC
  104).
• 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 the contractor to ensure safe and reliable protection stability testing of the Cable, Transformer, Reactor, and Busbar.

• 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.