Station Control Engineer - SCADA & Protection Specialist

Ramboll Group

Greater London

Hybrid

GBP 60,000 - 90,000

Full time

3 days ago

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Job summary

Ramboll Group seeks an experienced Station Control engineer to join its Power Systems team to design and implement SCADA and protection solutions for substations and HV/MV networks on major European infrastructure projects.

You will develop control philosophies, specify protection schemes, and contribute from concept through commissioning, collaborating with multidisciplinary teams to deliver integrated, secure, and standards-compliant solutions.

Qualifications

Develop engineering specifications for plant and station control systems for substations in the 30–400 kV range with closed-loop control.
Experience in SCADA, SRO, and IEC 61850-based substation automation.
Development of protection philosophies, protection settings, and protection coordination studies for AC and DC systems.
Design, configure and maintain station and plant control architectures, including RTUs, PLCs, and protection relays, ensuring reliable integration with primary equipment and SCADA systems.
Experience applying IEC 62443, NIS2, IEC 61508, ISO/IEC 27001, IEC 61850, IEC 60870-5-104 and related frameworks.
Carry out modelling, simulation, and performance studies using PSCAD, PSSE, DIgSILENT PowerFactory and MATLAB/Simulink to support protection and control design, tuning, and verification.
Perform control and protection testing, FAT, SAT, and on-site commissioning activities.
Experience with implementing WAMS and WAMPAC systems.

Responsibilities

Develop and implement control philosophies for substations and HV/MV networks.
Specify, design, and apply control and protection solutions for national and international projects with a focus on substations and TSO interfaces.
Contribute across all project phases—from concept development and system studies to specification, design, procurement, testing, and commissioning.
Develop open and closed loop control strategies and protection schemes; design the required protections and interfacing with SCADA.
Design SCADA systems including specification of hardware, protocols and interfaces.
Work in collaboration with multidisciplinary teams to deliver integrated, optimized solutions.