Protection Engineer-400 kV Transmission project(6 months assignment)

WSP Global Inc.; Doha; On-site; QAR 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

WSP Global Inc. is seeking a Protection Site Engineer for a 400 kV transmission project in Doha.

The role covers supervising, testing, commissioning and maintaining protection systems across substations, power plants, and networks to ensure reliable operation and safety on site. Responsibilities include reviewing contractor drawings, verifying relay settings and transformer calculations, witnessing tests, and ensuring IEC61850/IEC104 communication alignment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical/Power Engineering.
• Minimum 6 years of protection and control experience in substations or transmission/distribution.
• 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).
• Familiarity with testing tools (Omicron, Doble, Megger).
• Strong knowledge of IEC, IEEE standards.

Responsibilities

• Review contractors' design drawings and approve designs.
• Review inspection & testing procedures, FAT/SAT formats, and method statements.
• Verify relay setting calculations for existing and new devices.
• Verify adequacy checks for current and voltage transformer calculations.
• Witness testing and commissioning of protection equipment per client specs.
• Ensure protection and control signals align with IEC 61850 SCADA and IEC 104.
• Witness AVR schemes testing for transformer and reactor.
• Troubleshoot faults in substations related to protection and provide corrective actions.
• Review contractor method statements for safe stability testing.

Skills

Protection relays

IEC standards

Site management

Troubleshooting

Testing procedures

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Electrical/Power Engineering

Tools

Omicron

Doble

Megger

Job description

Protection Engineer-400 kV Transmission project(6 months assignment)

Job Description

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.

Responsibilities

• Review of contractors' design drawings and Design approval.
• Will be responsible for 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.
• Being well versed with the protection devices of major OEMS -Siemens, GE(Alstom) and ABB, frequently assists 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

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Electrical / Power Engineering (or equivalent).
• Minimum 6 years of experience in protection and control engineering (substations / transmission & distribution / power plants).
• 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.

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