Engineer - Senior Engineer (Protection & Control)

Job Description:

Engineer - Senior Engineer(Protection & Control)

Essential Criteria:

Delivering Work: Using your experience and knowledge, you will be leading the delivery of a variety of projects drawing upon the wider team for the technical engineering requirements and building a strong relationship with our clients. You will be client-facing, responsible for the delivery of our work and making sure it meets our client’s expectations.

• Experience of undertaking protection and control design related activities for AIS and GIS .
• Experience in Busbar, Feeder, Transformer, Reactor, Circuit Breaker fail, DAR protections and SCADA interface is essential,
• Experience in preparing Single Line Diagram (SLD), Key Line Drawings (KLD), Protection drawings, detail scheme drawing and wiring diagrams.
• Understand scheme drawing and produce cable block diagram and cable schedules
• Understand CT/VT requirements and capable of preparing report confirming adequacy of CT/VT for Protection application.
• Ability to perform and review engineering calculations / studies (e.g. fault calculations, relay settings, voltage drop, cable sizing, CT/VT sizing) and prepare system protection requirements and design basis.
• Ability to communicate effectively with internal and external stakeholders.
• Provide engineering support and solve queries during construction, testing and commissioning, attend site meetings and inspections.
• Willingness to work as part of a team.
• Maintain existing and develop new client relationships.
• Capability to work under tight deadlines while achieving objectives with the ability to deal with competing priorities and manage time appropriately.

Mentoring and Development: You will provide support and advice to members the team, this may also include line management responsibilities.  focus is on developing our staff to realise their full potential, with development plans geared to individual needs and abilities

Responsibilities:

Strong conceptualization ability, strong interpersonal communication and organizational skills are a must, including the capability to explain complex technical issues to decision-makers and project teams. Candidate must have good oral and written communication skills, be willing to travel, and work successfully in a customer focused, project-oriented environment.

Desirable Requirements:

• Experience of working in National Grid (UK) and SSEN substation projects
• Experience in protection application at transmission voltage levels up to 400 kV, gained within a utility, consultancy or contractors’ environment.
• HVDC protection systems is desirable.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s /master’s degree in electrical engineering with around 6-11 years of relevant industrial experience.
• Chartered Engineer or working towards chartership with the IET