Senior Control & Protection Application Engineer

Job Description Summary

Job Description

Roles and Responsibilities

As a Senior Control & Protection System Application Engineer, you will also play a key part in technically developing less experienced members of the team, this is a great opportunity to further your mentoring experience as there is scope for this role to build the team up further in the future.

· Responsible for leading overall requirement, design, implementation, and development of the HVDC Control & Protection system, this includes the following actives:

• Requirement & Design
• Engineering Design Process & Review
• Reviewing and approving technical documents
• Customer interface and training
• HVDC System in electromagnetic transient tools like PSCAD, EMTP-RV etc.
• Plant modelling in various simulation tools (MATLAB, PSCAD etc) and its verification.
• Dynamic Performance Studies (DPS) and other design studies using both offline and online simulation tools.
• Control and protection parameters tuning to meet grid stability criteria specified in customer technical specifications.

· Support the business’ Tendering, Operations, Contractual and After Sales needs.

· Provide technical guidance that influences outcomes to other people, supporting moderate complexity projects and/or tasks

· Play a key role in engineering design reviews and technical leadership, identifying potential project risks and technical weaknesses and proposing safe, reliable and compliant solutions

· Execute and provide guidance for the analysis / evaluation of assigned projects that meet business standards, practices and procedures and the product / program requirements

· Responsible for coaching and developing department talent.

· Responsible in defining strategies and roadmap for development of New Engineers in the department.

· Acts as a resource for colleagues with less experience. May lead small projects with low risks and resource requirements. Explains information; developing skills to bring team members to consensus around topics within field. Conveys performance expectations and may handle sensitive issues.

· Uses judgment to make decisions or solve moderately complex tasks or problems in areas of operational/product management, manufacturing, technology or engineering. Takes new perspective on existing solutions. Uses technical experience and expertise for data analysis to support recommendations.

· Continuously improving the product in terms of delivery speed, stability and reliability

Required Qualifications

· Degree in Electronics/Electrical engineering or proven equivalent knowledge and experience in HVDC business

· Minimum of 12 years’ experience in control and protection system design

· Expertise in HVDC Control, Protection and Sequencing strategy

· Expertise in PSCAD and MATLAB-SIMULINK simulation tools

· Expertise in HVDC Dynamic Performance Studies

· Experienced in technical leadership

· Must be flexible with working hours and willing to travel in order to support projects globally

· Ability to understand and communicate customer requirements, ownership of technical discussions with customers and capable of developing client relationships

Desired Characteristics

· Strong oral and written communication skills. Strong interpersonal and leadership skills. Demonstrated ability to analyse and resolve problems. Demonstrated ability to lead programs / projects. Ability to document, plan, market, and execute programs. Established project management skills.

· Proven technical leadership in a complex system engineering development environment

· Proactively serves on cross functional leadership teams; Makes decisions independently; Pulls in experts when needed.

Primary Locations

· Noida, Chennai

Additional Information

Relocation Assistance Provided: Yes