Protection Engineer-Site Supervision

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.

Review of contractors design drawings and Design approval.

Will be responsible for 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.

Being well versed with the protection devices of major OEMs -Siemens, GE(Alstom) and ABB, frequently assists the client for implementation of important protection like Cable Differential/Distance, Transformer Differential & REF, Bus bar Differential (Low Impedance and High Impedance) and Reactor Differential.

Ensuring all protection and control signals are configured to substation SCADA(IEC61850) and Nation Control Centre (IEC104).

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