Substation Protection Engineer - Commissioning & Reliability

WSP in the Middle East; Doha; On-site; QAR 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

WSP in the Middle East in Doha seeks a Protection Site Engineer to supervise, test, commission and maintain protection schemes across substations, power plants, and networks, ensuring reliable operation and safety on site.

You will review contractor designs, verify relay settings, witness testing, and ensure protection philosophy aligns with client specs, requiring hands-on relay experience with Siemens/ABB/GE/Schneider/SEL and strong IEC/IEEE knowledge.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical/Power Engineering
• 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)
• Familiarity with testing tools (Omicron, Doble, Megger)
• Strong knowledge of IEC, IEEE, and local utility standards
• Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills
• Strong communication and site management skills

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.
• 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

Skills

Protection relays

Relay coordination

Fault analysis

Protection schemes

Testing tools

IEC standards

Site management

Communication

Education

Bachelors in Electrical/Power Eng

Tools

Omicron

Doble

Megger

Job description

WSP in the Middle East in Doha seeks a Protection Site Engineer to supervise, test, commission and maintain protection schemes across substations, power plants, and networks, ensuring reliable operation and safety on site.

You will review contractor designs, verify relay settings, witness testing, and ensure protection philosophy aligns with client specs, requiring hands-on relay experience with Siemens/ABB/GE/Schneider/SEL and strong IEC/IEEE knowledge.