Protection Engineer-Site Supervision (6 Months)
WSP USA
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
+ 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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