Protection Engineer-Site Supervision

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

Job summary

WSP USA seeks a Protection Site Engineer to supervise the protection systems in substations, power plants, and transmission networks. You will review designs, verify relay settings, and oversee testing and commissioning to ensure reliable protection and safe site execution.

The role requires hands-on relay experience with Siemens/ABB/GE/Schneider/SEL, strong fault analysis, and adherence to IEC/IEEE standards, with emphasis on SCADA IEC61850 and IEC104 configurations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Electrical/Power Engineering or equivalent.
• Minimum 6 years of experience in protection and control engineering.
• 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.).

Responsibilities

• Review of contractors' design drawings and Design approval.
• Verify relay setting calculations for existing and new protection devices.
• 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.
• Ensuring all protection and control signals are configured to substation SCADA (IEC61850) and Nation Control Centre (IEC104).
• Witnessing the testing of AVR schemes for Transformer and Reactor.
• Troubleshooting faults in substations related to protection and control and providing corrective actions.

Skills

Protection relays

Relay coordination

Fault analysis

Power system protection schemes

Testing tools

IEC/IEEE standards

Site management

Communication

Problem-solving

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Electrical / Power Engineering

Tools

Omicron

Doble

Megger

SCADA IEC61850/IEC104

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.

• 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
• 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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