Protection Design Engineer

Medirest Signature; Basingstoke; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading engineering firm in the UK is seeking a Protection Design Engineer based in Basingstoke. The successful candidate will play a key role in the design and procurement of electrical substations and protection systems, ensuring compliance with industry standards. This position offers a competitive salary and opportunities for career development within a family-owned company known for its commitment to innovative engineering and a sustainable future.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Pension scheme

Healthcare benefits

Employee assistance programme

Cycle to work scheme

Qualifications

• Proficient understanding of electricity industry standards and policies.
• Demonstrated ability in substation design and electrical plant.
• Experience with protection and control systems.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for detailed design and procurement of substation plant.
• Creating system designs compliant with specifications.
• Liaising with manufacturers for equipment procurement.

Skills

Electrical knowledge

Design compliance with standards

Project management

Education

Relevant degree or equivalent experience

Job description

Protection Design Engineer

£55,000- £65,000 plus car allowance

Faraday Office Park Basingstoke

We are innovative
If you're innovative, we'll have a lot in common. We like to do things differently, but not for the sake of it.

The Plant, Protection and Control Engineer plays a vital role within the design team. You will be responsible for the design delivery of substation plant, equipment, and protection systems across a whole range of electrical infrastructures as well as new connection projects in both the distribution and transmission sectors.

You will be responsible for the detailed design and procurement of substation plant including, switchgear, power transformers, voltage control equipment, protection systems, protective relays, connectors, busbars, SCADA based telemetry, as well as all the associated substation build activities throughout the lifecycle of the project.
Your primary role is to ensure substation infrastructure is correctly identified and procured, in a timely manner. You will achieve this ensuring the detailed preparation and delivery of functional specifications, equipment schedules and associated scheme drawings. You'll provide ongoing technical support and advice on procurement of plant and equipment, by liaising directly with suppliers and manufacturers, to order plant and equipment, as per client specification and approved designs.

Here are some of the activities you will get involved with...
Responsible for assessing client project requirements and producing detailed plant and equipment and protection specifications.
Creating appropriate system designs ensuring compliance with applicable specifications and tender documentation, coordination with manufactures and suppliers.
Assist with tendering activities and provide regular technical guidance for any proposed schemes, as may be required.
Prepare site layouts and schematics, for multi-staged substations construction build projects.
Manage external plant and equipment manufacturers, design consultants, and oversee designs outputs to ensure compatibility with the electro-technical requirements.
Liaise with internal and external design team, clients, manufacturers, and consultancies to produce accurate designs within timescales indicated and in line with deliverables.
Produce detailed electrical control and protection schematic drawings for construction of large electrical infrastructure schemes.
Produce electro-technical drawings, plant and material procurement lists, and wiring diagrams for control for protection and control systems.
Preparation of functional specifications and providing advice on procurement of plant and equipment and liaising with manufacturers to order plants as per client specification.
Be able to produce detailed specifications for high voltage plant, equipment and ancillary plant and equipment associated with high voltage substations.
Review equipment manufacturers' proposals and liaise with equipment manufacturers to ensure equipment suitability is in line with the proposed design.
Production of equipment schedules in line with relevant IEC, DNO, ENA, IDNO and client-based specifications.
Development and review of single line diagrams, P&C block diagrams, & connection diagrams.
Production of AC and DC schematic drawings, control and protection, cable block diagrams, SCADA and multicore cable and termination schedules.
Relay setting calculations for 11kV, 33kV, 132kV and above 132kV voltage levels including Transmission Lines, Transformers, Busbars, Bus-couplers and Bus-Sections etc.
IED/Numerical Protection Relay LEDs, Binary Input, Binary Output and PSL/CFC configurations for Siemens Siprotec-5/Reyrolle, GE Micom and ABB etc. make manufacturers.
110VDC Battery Loading Calculations.
CT/VT sizing calculations and adequacy check.
To maintain an electro-technical and commercial dialogue with suppliers and customer.
Take responsibility for ensuring good technical documentation management and change control.

We would love to hear from you if you can demonstrate...
A proficient understanding of electricity industry & regulatory standards, policies, and their application to the role.
A good understanding of electrical plant, transformer, protection, relays and control and construction disciplines and current ENA, BS and IEC electrotechnical engineering standards, to ensure full application and compliance requirements can be achieved.
A strong electrical knowledge within the contestable and non-contestable connections sides of the market and should be able to demonstrate a proven track record working within projects such as substation construction, cabling, overhead lines, while being fully conversant with working on switchgear, protection, control and major designs of electrical plant including transformers.
Good knowledge of power systems, renewable energy and protection design at all voltages.
Ability to take a brief scope of works and assist in producing a detailed design based on appropriate standards.
Be able to prepare single-line diagrams for multi staged substations construction projects.
A relevant degree or equivalent experience.

Our Company

Every day we work smarter, greener and use our imaginations.

Our purpose at Clancy is simple - we make life better for everyone's growing families. We play a vital role in providing fresh drinking water and power to millions of homes and businesses and so much more.

We are one of the biggest family owned construction businesses in the UK and we care about our people, our clients and the environment.

What Next

You apply, and we respond within two weeks (we know how annoying it is not to hear anything back)! If you don't receive feedback within that timescale, please don't be afraid to chase us - one of our values is to do what we say we will do!

Benefits

In addition to helping you reach your career goals, a competitive salary, pension, healthcare and holiday allowance starting at XX days per annum, we also offer perks including Clancy Xtras, our employee benefits programme with discounts for numerous well-known retailers such as Tesco, Sainsbury's, Currys PC World and Vue Cinemas, cycle to work scheme as well as an Employee Assistance Programme.

Clancy is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all our employees. If you require any reasonable adjustments to be made for you to attend an interview, please do let us know and we will be happy to accommodate.

We are proud signatories of the Armed Forces Covenant and Disability Confident Committed.