Protection Design Engineer

• Business Line:
  Energy and Sustainable Cities
• Region:
  Europe and Africa
• Job Family:
  Design and Engineering
• Profession:
  Electrical and Mechanical

Company Description

Egis is a leading global architecture, consulting, construction engineering and operating firm. We work side by side with clients to build a more balanced, sustainable and resilient world.

Omnia Projects, part of the Egis Group, are a UK-based engineering consultancy specialising in electricity Transmission and Distribution (T&D) providing engineering, project management and technical assurance.

Project Description

The successful individual will support and work with the inhouse project delivery team to provide works across several asset classes to include substations, underground cables, overhead lines and civils. This will cover at all system voltages from low voltage (LV) up to and including 132kV.

Role Overview

The Protection Applications Design Engineer supports project-based works and portfolios of projects, ensuring the design and integration of protection, control, and SCADA systems across all distribution asset classes (overhead lines, underground cables, substations, civil works, and work programmes). The role involves producing and reviewing technical designs, drawings, and specifications in line with national and company standards.

• Assess and utilize Company documentation, including project functional specifications.
• Work in accordance with Company and relevant business systems, processes, and procedures.
• Use and update Company data and information systems.
• Produce accurate and detailed Connections, Protection, and tripping logic diagrams.
• Specify appropriate Current and Voltage Transformers for all protection and metering schemes, referencing manufacturers’ specifications.
• Produce relay programmable logic files, relay setting files, and IEC
  61850 and DNP3 communication files.
• Demonstrate advanced knowledge and experience in using CAD software (Micro Station V8i and/or AutoCAD 2021) to produce Connection, Protection, and logic drawings.
• Apply national protection standards (ENATS, TPS, BEBS, Elexon Metering Standards) to all voltage levels.
• Review protection design specifications produced by independent connection providers.
• Specify appropriate relay panel hardware, multicore schedules, bus wiring, and multicore cable termination equipment.
• Provide project designs and documentation, including descriptions of non-standard schemes and detailed relay application notes.
• Undertake witness testing of protection and associated plant & equipment and attend Factory Acceptance Testing.
• Interface with customers and internal/external resources.
• Complete all designs to agreed programmes of work and deliver in line with project plans and priorities.
• Accurately record all time spent on projects and provide timely reports on progress and status.
• Attend project-specific meetings and maintain effective communication within the project team.
• Undertake duties under the CDM Regulations, on behalf of the Company, as Designer.
• Update Company asset recording and data systems.
• Provide guidance and support to other members of the Protection Application Design Team.
• Either possess or be capable of successfully obtaining and maintaining the Company Operational Authorisation requirement, at minimum:
• Authorisations to gain access to all operational substations unsupervised.
• Authorisations to supervise others who need to gain access to all operational substations.

Knowledge & Qualifications

• Preferably a degree in Electrical Engineering; minimum academic requirement is a Higher National Certificate (HNC) in Electrical Engineering.
• Proven working history in the electricity distribution/transmission industry delivering protection applications designs, typically with 10+ years’ experience as a Protection Design Engineer.
• Skills, experience, and detailed knowledge of protection design for all distribution asset classes of switch gear, transformers, and feeders at all voltages up to and including 132kV.
• Ability to design several schemes simultaneously, manage time to achieve project deadlines, and adapt to changing…