Senior Power System Protection Engineer – UAE (Ruwais)

Bilfinger North America

Abu Dhabi

On-site

AED 240,000 - 480,000

Full time

11 days ago

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Job summary

Bilfinger North America is seeking an Electrical Specialist – Power System Protection for a site-based role in Ruwais, Abu Dhabi, UAE. You will maintain, test, configure, troubleshoot, and improve protection relays across LV to EHV networks, ensuring safe and reliable operation.

The role requires extensive experience with protection schemes, fault analysis, relay coordination, and lifecycle support for ABB, Siemens, GE, and MiCOM systems, with a strong focus on reliability and safety in ADNOC

Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering.
Fifteen years of experience in Power System Protection and Protection Relay Engineering.
Ten years of experience in Oil & Gas, Refining, Petrochemical, Utilities, or ADNOC facilities.
Proven experience with LV, MV, HV, and EHV protection systems.

Responsibilities

Protection Relay Maintenance: maintenance, configuration, testing, and troubleshooting of ABB Relion, Siemens SIPROTEC, GE Multilin, and MiCOM relays.
Testing & Commissioning: preventive maintenance, shutdown testing, secondary injection testing, verify protection settings and trip logic.
Condition Monitoring & Asset Reliability: health assessments, review alarms/logs, lifecycle monitoring, reliability improvements.
Fault Investigation & System Analysis: analyze faults/trips, retrieve disturbance records, perform RCA, prepare technical reports.
Spare Parts & Obsolescence Management: manage inventories, procurement support, obsolescence programs, review warehouse stock.
Technical Support: support during shutdowns, turnarounds, and emergencies; coordinate with OEMs.
HSE & Compliance: ADNOC HSE compliance, participate in HAZOP, risk assessments, SIMOPS, and PTW.