Job Description
With over 14,000 professionals globally, GHD is a leading multidisciplinary professional services company delivering engineering, design, and advisory solutions across water, energy, resources, environment, property & buildings, and transportation sectors.
AboutThe Role
We are looking for a HV Electrical Engineer – Primary Substations to work under the Construction Phase Services Business Group in Qatar, providing project management, design review, construction supervision, technical assessment, testing and commissioning support for high‑voltage primary substations, in addition to the required building electrical services and associated power infrastructure works.
The HV Electrical Engineer will assist the Project Manager, Resident Engineer and/or Engineering Manager in administering the technical and operational functions of the project. The role will be responsible for the HV primary substation scope apart from building electrical services, including review of design, review of contractor and vendor submissions, coordination with service lines and stakeholders, supervision of electrical works, and ensuring compliance with approved drawings, specifications, contract requirements, utility authority requirements, and relevant international standards.
The HV Electrical Engineer will provide technical leadership for HV primary substation systems, including GIS/AIS switch gear, power transformers, HV cables, protection and control, SCADA/SAS, earthing, lightning protection, power system studies, and interfaces with the building electrical services. The role will also support coordination with civil, structural, mechanical, telecom, utility, vendor and commissioning teams through design, construction, testing, energization and handover.
Roles & Responsibilities- Take lead responsibility for HV primary substation works apart from building electrical services, ensuring proper technical review, site coordination, contractor management, testing, commissioning and authority/interface closeout.
- Assist the PM, RE and/or Engineering Manager in performing contractual and technical duties related to HV primary substations, building electrical services interfaces, and associated power infrastructure works.
- Lead and coordinate the technical review of electrical design submissions, calculations, drawings, specifications, method statements, ITPs, shop drawings, material submittals, RFIs and technical queries.
- Review and verify Single Line Diagrams, protection and control schematics, equipment layouts, cable routing, earthing layouts, lightning protection layouts, interlocking schemes and SCADA/SAS interface documents.
- Review and assess contractor and vendor submissions for GIS/AIS switch gear, power transformers, shunt reactors, HV cables, control and relay panels, numerical relays, RTU/SCADA systems and substation automation systems.
- Review, coordinate and provide technical comments on power system studies, including load flow, short circuit, insulation coordination, dynamic motor starting, transient/dynamic analysis, harmonic analysis, arc flash, EMC/EMI, lightning, earthing and protection coordination studies.
- Monitor construction activities at site and verify that electrical works are carried out in accordance with approved drawings, specifications, contract requirements, quality requirements and safety procedures.
- Coordinate electrical interfaces with civil/structural works, equipment foundations, trenches, cable ducts, building services, telecom systems, utility tie-ins, energization requirements and third-party/vendor packages.
- Witness and review Factory Acceptance Tests (FAT), Site Acceptance Tests (SAT), pre-commissioning tests, commissioning procedures, test reports and energization readiness documentation.
- Support protection relay testing, SCADA/SAS integration, IEC 61850 coordination, functional testing, interlocking verification and utility authority inspection requirements.
- Identify, document and follow up technical non-conformances, design gaps, construction issues, interface risks and quality observations until satisfactory closeout.
- Participate in technical meetings, design review workshops,…
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