Relay Protection Engineer

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November 17

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2021

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📋 Description

• Perform end-to-end relay testing, commissioning, and maintenance of protection systems across substations, power plants, or industrial facilities. • Review, configure, and verify settings for numerical, digital, and electromechanical relays, including distance, differential, over-current, earth-fault, and other protection schemes. • Conduct protection coordination studies and develop relay settings using industry-standard tools and OEM software. • Analyze system disturbances, faults, and events by reviewing relay records, fault reports, SOE logs, and oscillography; recommend corrective and preventive measures. • Prepare, execute, and document testing procedures, including primary injection, secondary injection, scheme testing, logic verification, and functional checks. • Support commissioning activities for new substations, transformers, switchgear, and protection panels by ensuring accurate wiring, CT/PT checks, and scheme validation. • Collaborate with design, operations, and maintenance teams to ensure protection systems align with project specifications, grid codes, and safety regulations. • Troubleshoot system issues related to relay misoperations, wiring faults, communication failures, CT/PT inaccuracies, and SCADA/IED interface problems. • Participate in root cause analysis for protection system failures and assist in implementing reliability improvements. • Maintain accurate documentation of relay settings, test reports, as-built drawings, and configuration files for audit and compliance requirements. • Ensure adherence to electrical safety practices, isolation procedures, and applicable national/international standards (IEC, IEEE, IS, NERC, etc.). • Assist in training junior engineers, technicians, and field staff on relay testing tools, procedures, and protection concepts.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent; specialization in Power Systems preferred. • 3–8 years of hands-on experience in protection engineering, relay testing, or power system commissioning. • Strong expertise with numerical relays from vendors such as ABB, Siemens, GE, SEL, Schneider, or similar. • Proficiency in relay testing equipment like Omicron (CPC 100, CMC series), Megger, or equivalent. • Practical knowledge of protection schemes including transformer, feeder, line, motor, generator, busbar, and differential protection. • Experience working with SCADA integration, communication protocols (IEC 61850, DNP3, Modbus), and substation automation systems. • Ability to read and interpret protection SLDs, logic diagrams, wiring drawings, and panel layouts. • Strong analytical, diagnostic, and troubleshooting skills, especially under field and outage conditions. • Excellent communication, reporting, and teamwork abilities.