Protection Engineer-Site Supervision (6 Months)

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Protection Engineer-Site Supervision (6 Months) Join to apply for the Protection Engineer-Site Supervision (6 Months) role at WSP in the Middle East.

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 of contractors’ design drawings and Design approval.

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.

Familiarity with protection devices of major OEMS - Siemens, GE (Alstom), ABB; assist the client for implementation of 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 faults in 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.

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 (distance, differential, overcurrent, etc.).

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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Seniority level

Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Contract

Job function

Engineering and Information Technology

Industries

Professional Services

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