Protection Engineer-Site Supervision

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

Job summary

WSP in Qatar seeks a Protection Site Engineer to supervise, test, commission, and maintain protection systems across substations, power plants, and networks. You will ensure reliable protection schemes and safe site execution, aligning with client specs and standards.

The role requires reviewing contractor designs, validating relay settings and test procedures, and coordinating with protection devices from Siemens, ABB, GE and others.

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.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• Review contractors’ design drawings and Design approval.
• Review inspection & testing procedures, FAT/SAT formats, method statements.
• Verify relay setting calculations for existing and new protection devices.
• Verify adequacy checks for current and voltage transformer calculations.
• Witness testing and commissioning of protection equipment per client specs.
• Familiarity with protection devices from major OEMS (Siemens, ABB, GE, Schneider, SEL).
• Ensure protection/control signals are configured to SCADA IEC61850 and IEC104.
• Witness testing of AVR schemes for Transformer and Reactor.
• Troubleshoot protection/control faults and provide corrective actions.
• Review contractor method statements for safe stability testing of cables, transformers, reactors and busbars.

Skills

Protection relays

Substation testing

Relay coordination

IEC 61850

IEC 104

Site management

Troubleshooting

Power systems

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical / Power Engineering

Tools

Omicron

Doble

Megger

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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