# Protection Engineer-400 kV Transmission project(6 months assignment)

**Company**: WSP
**Location**: Doha, Doha
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: temporary
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

We are seeking a Protection Engineer for a 6-month assignment on a 400 kV Transmission project in Doha, Qatar.

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 contractors' design drawings and provide design approval.

- Review inspection and testing procedures, FAT/SAT formats, and 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 protection equipment, ensuring correct implementation of protection and control philosophy according to client specifications.

- Assist clients with implementation of important protection systems, including Cable Differential/Distance, Transformer Differential & REF, Bus bar Differential, and Reactor Differential.

- Ensure all protection and control signals are configured to substation SCADA (IEC61850) and National Control Centre (IEC104).

- Witness testing of Automatic Voltage Regulator (AVR) schemes for Transformers and Reactors.

- Verify protection and control schematics based on protection requirements.

- Troubleshoot faults in substations related to protection and control, providing corrective actions to clients.

- Review method statements submitted by contractors to ensure safe and reliable protection stability testing.

## 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.

- 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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## Skills

### Required
- Electrical Engineering
- Power Engineering
- Protection and Control Engineering
- Relay Coordination
- Fault Analysis
- Power System Protection Schemes
- Siemens
- ABB
- GE
- Schneider
- SEL
- Omicron
- Doble
- Megger
- IEC
- IEEE

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