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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