Substation Commissioning Engineer

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🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

⏰ Full Time

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10,000+ employees

🏗️ Construction

💼 Consulting

Construction • Consulting • Sustainability

Egis is a leading global architecture, consulting, construction engineering, and operating firm. They collaborate with clients to build a more balanced, sustainable, and resilient world by focusing on transport, infrastructure, and the built environment. With a strong emphasis on sustainability and digital transformation, Egis provides services across the entire project lifecycle, from idea to operation, in over 100 countries worldwide.

📋 Description

• Support project-based works, project portfolios, and ad-hoc repairs • Commission and integrate protection, control, and SCADA systems across overhead lines, underground cables, substations, civil works, and work programmes • Undertake commissioning activities to ensure assets are fit for purpose and meet regulatory and customer obligations • Perform pre-commissioning inspections before off-load commissioning tests • Check detailed schematics against connections, protection, and tripping logic diagrams • Attend Factory Acceptance Testing and project-specific meetings as required • Conduct off-load commissioning checks and witness testing of primary substation plant • Perform insulation resistance, primary and secondary injection, circuit logic, relay logic, protection relay, auto-reclose, intertripping, and signalling equipment tests • Test integration of protection systems with control and SCADA using DNP3 and IEC61850 protocols • Test and prove relay programmable logic files, relay setting files, and DNP3 communication files • Interface with customers and internal and external resources • Complete work in line with company objectives for time, cost, and quality • Record project time accurately and provide timely progress and status reports • Provide guidance and support to Protection Commissioning Team members • Use and update company data and information systems, including commissioning records and on-site fault/defect investigations • Undertake duties under the CDM Regulations as Designer and/or Contractor

🎯 Requirements

• Minimum Higher National Certificate (HNC) in Electrical Engineering • TP141 OR SR141 OR CE141 Certification • Typically 10+ years’ experience practicing as a Commissioning Engineer in the electricity distribution/transmission industry • Detailed knowledge of protection on all distribution asset classes of switchgear, transformers, and feeders at all voltages up to and including 400kV • Recent experience in commissioning protection systems associated with generation connections is strongly preferred • Must either possess or be capable to successfully obtain and maintain A1 Access and Supervision to substations controlled by a level 3 key • Must either possess or be capable to successfully obtain and maintain A2.1 and A2.4 Access and Supervision to open compounds • Must either possess or be capable to successfully obtain and maintain O11.11 Testing & Commissioning of all Primary S/S & Bulk Supply Point protection up to and including 132kV • Must either possess or be capable to successfully obtain and maintain O11.18 Work on protection, control, and equipment including assisting an engineer with the testing & operation of relays and isolated plant • Willingness to travel between work locations, sites, and company/supplier offices • Current and valid UK driving licence • High level of professionalism and ability to work under pressure and to tight timescales

🏖️ Benefits

• Employees can work remotely • Expenses for travel and accommodation incurred for company needs will be paid separately, subject to company allowances and contract terms

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