Role -  Senior Protection & Control Engineer

Location - Glasgow (preferred), remote working also available

Duration - 12 months

Rate - £400 + per day (Inside IR35)

My client is looking for a senior substation engineer to join the transmissions and distributions teams to act as the subject matter expert on engineering and construction projects primarily in industrial, transmission/distribution and renewables sector.

Key Accountabilities

• Responsible for the design of transmission protection systems for voltages up to 400 Kv
• Reviewing in-house designs and those produced by external contractors.
• Experience in the concepts required in the safe design and operation of electrical networks, and development construction
• Experience in the safe design and operation of electrical networks
• Advising on design changes and design life
• Act as the subject matter in the electrical field but experience and extensive knowledge of engineering fields outside of this
• Substantial knowledge and time spent with construction design management (CDM)
• Ensure that design projects are undertaken by the correct and competent personnel and subcontractors
• Have the ability to challenge, propose, agree and implement alternative solutions compared with those dictated by the transmission specifications , policies, processes and best practices.
• Be accountable for effective delivery and assigned tasks and deliverables of projects to time and budget.
• Manage health and safety in the work place

Qualifications

• Preparation of Protection and Control design deliverables, feasibility studies, reports, programmes and cost estimating
• Calculation of relay settings and preparation of logic files.
• Experience in the preparation of detailed electrical schematic diagrams for substation Protection and Control systems.
• Experience in Busbar, Feeder, Transformer, Reactor, Circuit Breaker fail, DAR protections and SCADA interface is essential and FACTS, HVDC protection systems is desirable
• Knowledge of IEC61850 communication protocols
• Experience in preparing Single Line Diagram, Substation Layout, Key Line Drawings (SLD, KLD) and Cable protection
• A good working experience of computer-based packages e.g. ASPEN OneLiner and ETAP