Protection Engineer-kV Transmission project

Job Title: Protection Engineer-400 kV Transmission project

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.

Key Responsibilities:

• 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.
• 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.
• Assisting 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.

Experience

Required:

• Minimum 6 years of experience in protection and control engineering (substations / transmission & distribution / power plants).

Education

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical / Power Engineering (or equivalent).

Skills Required:

• 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.
• Well versed with the protection devices of major OEMS
  -Siemens, GE(Alstom) and ABB.

Employment / Job Type: Contract

Nationality: Any Nationality

About the Company:

A professional services consultancy in engineering, design, advisory and project management. It works on buildings, transport, water, energy, environment and urban development schemes, supporting public and private clients across the Middle East with technical and sustainability expertise.

Department /

Functional Area:

Systems Engineering

Closing Date: Not mentioned (apply as soon as possible)