Senior Protection Settings Engineer

AL8238 UK Grid Solutions Limited; Stafford; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

GE Vernova's Grid System Integration group in the UK seeks a Senior Protection Settings Engineer to deliver protection settings studies for HV AC/DC substations and offshore wind/ storage projects. You will engage with a multi-disciplinary team and support the energy transition with robust protection schemes.

The role requires design experience in Transmission and Distribution, strong command of protection principles, and ability to work to tight delivery schedules.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Power Electrical Engineering or higher.
• Experience with protection device schemes and operation.
• Ability to analyse and resolve problems with strong planning skills.

Responsibilities

• Prepare HV protection settings calculations (low impedance feeder, transformer biased diff, busbar protections).
• Perform short-circuit fault level calculations per IEC60909.
• Use power system analysis software for fault level studies and protection grading.

Skills

Protection principles

Analytical thinking

English fluency

Delivery planning

Education

Power Electrical Engineering Bachelor's degree

Tools

DIgSILENT PowerFactory

Arc-flash software

Caneco BT

Job description

Job Description Summary

The North and South Europe Grid System Integration (GSI) is seeking a Senior Protection Settings Engineer to join our dynamic projects business. This is an exciting opportunity to work alongside highly skilled engineers delivering protection settings studies for relays applied to High Voltage AC Transmission systems. Grid Solutions, a GE Renewable Energy business, serves customers globally with over 13,000 employees. We provide power utilities and industries worldwide with equipment, systems and services to ensure reliable and efficient power delivery from generation to end consumers. Our focus is on enabling safe and reliable integration of renewable and distributed energy resources into the grid, including HVDC, HVAC, FACTS, and service agreements. We electrify the world with advanced grid technologies and accelerate the energy transition.

Job Description

The Role

The Grid System Integration (GSI) business delivers a wide range of projects associated with the bulk transmission of electrical power and management of electrical power grids. These projects typically include:

• New high voltage transmission substations
• Expansion and reinforcement of existing transmission substations and networks
• Onshore and Offshore substations to facilitate windfarm connections and other renewable technologies.
• Network compensation and stability projects
• Energy storage projects

The candidate will be part of a small yet diverse and sought-after team of Protection Settings Engineers working as part of the larger team of engineers to deliver High Voltage AC & DC substations and Offshore windfarms, battery energy storage and green hydrogen production opportunities to support the Green Energy Transition.

Preferably, the candidate will have achieved National Grid Settings Authorisation certification or be working towards it in short term.

Industrial experience in AC substation design and primary plant, with an understanding of protection, control/SCADA, OT cybersecurity, telecom, metering, CT/VT specifications, and substation integration, is highly desirable.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Prepare high voltage protection settings calculations e.g. low impedance feeder differential and distance protections, transformer biased differential protections, and low impedance busbar protection calculations or high impedance busbar protection circulating current calculations.
• Perform short-circuit fault level calculations manually to IEC60909 standard for symmetrical and unsymmetrical faults using sequence components.
• Use power system analysis software (e.g., DIgSILENT PowerFactory) for fault level studies and protection grading/selectivity reports.
• Conduct arc‑flash analysis using tools such as Alpi Caneco BT for LVAC 400V systems.
• Prepare first‑time energisation circuit switching programs and automatic reclosure switching sequence reports.
• Technical analysis of employer’s requirements to define and optimise protection functionality selection.
• Provide advisory support to project and tendering teams on protection related matters.
• Apply judgment to propose different solutions outside set parameters with guidance.
• Collaborate across internal teams to achieve results.
• Actively participate in business improvement initiatives within the engineering department.
• Offer support and mentorship to junior engineers in enhancing their professional engineering competencies.

Required Qualifications, Skills and Experience

• Power Electrical Engineering Bachelor's degree (or higher) from an accredited university.
• Design experience within the Electricity Transmission and Distribution industry.
• Solid understanding of protection device and scheme principle of operation.
• Previous use of a power system analysis and modelling software and Arc‑flash analysis software preferred.
• Fluent oral and written English.
• Ability to analyse and resolve problems.
• Ability to plan and execute to very tight delivery schedules.
• While previous experience is not compulsory, it is preferable if the candidate has a minimum of 7 years’ experience in AC substation engineering.

Additional Information

Relocation Assistance Provided: No

Addressing the climate crisis is an urgent global priority and we take our responsibility seriously. That is our singular mission at GE Vernova: continuing to electrify the world while simultaneously working to help decarbonize it. If we want our energy future to be different…we must be different. Our mission is embedded in our name. We retain our treasured legacy, “GE,” in our name as an enduring and hard‑earned badge of quality and ingenuity. “Ver” / “verde” signal Earth’s verdant and lush ecosystems. “Nova,” from the Latin “novus,” nods to a new, innovative era of lower carbon energy that GE Vernova will help deliver. Together, we have The Energy to Change the World.

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