Control & Protection Engineer

Jobtailor; Chennai District; On-site; INR 2,500,000 - 4,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor in Chennai, India is seeking an experienced electrical engineer to design and implement protection relay systems for EHV/HV substations, ensuring safety, quality, cost and time delivery criteria.

The role involves leading secondary engineering activities, coordinating with global regions, and providing technical leadership to estimate manhour costs. Travel internationally may be required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in electrical engineering.
• 5+ years of experience in substation protection relay systems in EHV substations or Power Transmission industries.
• Experience in EPC environments with multidisciplinary teams.
• Willingness to travel internationally as required.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and optimize protection relay systems for EHV/HV substations.
• Ensure reliability and efficiency of power systems across regions.
• Lead secondary engineering activities (CRP/SAS, Interface, Telecom, LV Aux) for substations.
• Provide technical leadership and coordinate with regions to estimate manhour costs.
• Prepare and present technical data to customers and document results.
• Collaborate on cross-functional teams to address initiatives and share information.
• Prepare invention disclosures to protect technology.

Skills

Communication

Project management

Leadership

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in Electrical Engineering

Tools

Relay Testing

Job description

Responsibilities

• Play a crucial role in designing, implementing, and optimizing protection relay systems for EHV/HV substations considering the safety/quality/Cost/time delivery criteria.
• Ensure the reliability and efficiency of power systems, supporting global operations across various regions.
• Involved in the secondary engineering activities (Control & Protection, Substation Automation Systems, Interface Engineering, Telecom Requirements & LV Auxiliary Systems for EHV/HV Electrical Substations).
• Execute with the association of workgroups, where applicable, in order to meet assigned objectives.
• Work within defined parameters to draw conclusions, apply concepts to issues of moderate complexity, and resolve issues through immediate action or short-term planning.
• Coordinate with the GSI Regions / Business Lines as per Project requirement.
• Provide technical leadership and interface with GSI Regions/GE Vernova Business Lines to estimate the optimized manhour cost for the engineering activities.
• Prepare and present technical data to internal and external customers.
• Document and communicate results of technical data generated.
• Participate on teams assigned to address specific organizational initiatives.
• Share engineering information and promote open dialogue.
• Prepare invention disclosures to protect the technology that provides a competitive advantage.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s (or) master’s degree in electrical engineering
• 5+ years of experience in substation protection relay systems within EHV Electrical Substations, Oil & Gas or Power Transmission industries.
• Experience in EPC (Engineering, Procurement, Construction) environments with multidisciplinary teams.
• Experience of Secondary(CRP/SAS, Aux Systems, Telecom, Interface) engineering up to 765kV/400kV/220KV and HVDC Substations (AIS/GIS/SOLAR/WIND).
• Experience/Knowledge on Relay Testing, Equipment Testing, Control / Protection scheme testing & SAS Commissioning experience (min 1 year) shall be given additional weightage.
• Strong oral and written communication skills.
• Strong interpersonal , responsive and supervision skills.
• Demonstrated ability to evaluate and resolve problems.
• Demonstrated ability to manage programs / projects.
• Ability to document, plan, market, and execute programs.
• Established project management skills.
• Fluent in English; additional language (any foreign Language) is a plus.
• Willingness to travel internationally as required.
• Proven technical leadership in a complex system engineering development environment.
• Proactively serves on cross functional management teams, supportive ; self-directed decision-making ; Pulls in experts when needed.