Protection Engineer-400 kV Transmission project

AimGulf; Doha; On-site; QAR 180,000 - 320,000; Part time

Job summary

AimGulf is seeking a Protection Engineer for a 400 kV Transmission project in Doha. You will supervise, test, commission, and maintain protection systems across substations, power plants, and transmission networks to ensure reliable operation and compliance with standards.

Responsibilities include reviewing contractor drawings, FAT/SAT formats, relay settings, and SCADA integration, while guiding safe and effective protection system implementation on site.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical/Power Engineering or equivalent.
• 6+ years in protection and control engineering in substations, transmission & distribution, or power plants.
• Hands-on with protection relays from major OEMs (Siemens, ABB, GE, Schneider, SEL).
• Knowledge of relay coordination, fault analysis, and protection schemes.

Responsibilities

• Review contractor design drawings and approvals.
• Review inspection & testing procedures, FAT/SAT formats, and method statements.
• Verify relay setting calculations for protection devices.
• Witness testing and commissioning of protection equipment at sites.
• Ensure protection/control signals align with IEC61850 and IEC104.
• Troubleshoot faults and provide corrective actions.
• Review contractor method statements for safe stability testing.

Skills

Protection relays

Relay coordination

Fault analysis

IEC/IEEE standards

Testing tools

Site management

OEM devices

Power system protection

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical / Power Engineering

Tools

Omicron

Doble

Megger

Job description

Job Title: Protection Engineer-400 kV Transmission project

The Protection Site Engineer will be responsible for supervising, testing, commissioning, and maintaining protection systems in substations, power plants, and transmission/distribution networks. The role ensures reliable operation of protection schemes, compliance with standards, and safe execution of site works.

Key Responsibilities:

• Review of contractors’ design drawings and Design approval.
• Review of inspection & testing procedure, FAT/SAT formats, method statements.
• Verify relay setting calculations for existing and new protection devices.
• Verify adequacy checks for current and voltage transformer calculations.
• Witnessing the testing and commissioning of all protection equipment and ensuring the protection and control philosophy is correctly implemented at site as per client specification.
• Assisting the client for implementation of important protection like Cable Differential/Distance, Transformer Differential & REF, Bus bar Differential (Low Impedance and High Impedance) and Reactor Differential.
• Ensuring all protection and control signals are configured to substation SCADA(IEC61850) and Nation Control Centre (IEC104).
• Witnessing the testing of Automatic Voltage Regulator (AVR) schemes for Transformer and Reactor.
• Verify protection and control schematics based on protection requirement.
• Troubleshooting of the faults in the substations related to protection and control and providing corrective actions to client.
• Review of method statements submitted by the contractor to ensure safe and reliable protection stability testing of the Cable, Transformer, Reactor and Busbar.

Experience Required:

• Minimum 6 years of experience in protection and control engineering (substations / transmission & distribution / power plants).

Education Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical / Power Engineering (or equivalent).

Skills Required:

• Hands-on experience with protection relays (Siemens, ABB, GE, Schneider, SEL, etc.).
• Knowledge of relay coordination, fault analysis, and power system protection schemes (distance, differential, overcurrent, etc.).
• Familiarity with testing tools (Omicron, Doble, Megger, etc.).
• Strong knowledge of IEC, IEEE, and local utility standards.
• Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.
• Strong communication and site management skills.
• Well versed with the protection devices of major OEMS -Siemens, GE(Alstom) and ABB.

Employment / Job Type: Contract

Nationality: Any Nationality

About the Company:

A professional services consultancy in engineering, design, advisory and project management. It works on buildings, transport, water, energy, environment and urban development schemes, supporting public and private clients across the Middle East with technical and sustainability expertise.

Department / Functional Area: Systems Engineering

Closing Date: Not mentioned (apply as soon as possible)