# Principal Electrical Engineer (Protection)

Title: Principal Electrical Engineer (Protection)Overall Summary Principal Electrical Engineer - with a minimum of 12+ years of progressive experience in protection, control, metering and power system analysis for substations and electrical networks up to and including 115 kV in the Oil & Gas, hydrocarbon, and Infrastructure industries. Demonstrated leadership of a medium team of electrical engineers and designers and experience in Conceptual, FEED, and detailed engineering of medium to large scale projects required. Duties and Responsibilities: Lead a team of 5 to 8 electrical engineers and designers Develop discipline work plans for protection engineering activities, including protection philosophy, scheme development, relay settings, coordination studies, protection drawings and vendor document reviews. Prepare work-hour estimates Develop and review protection schemes and specifications for GIS, transformers, busbars, feeders, motors, generators and other electrical equipment for systems up to 115 kV Provide SME-level technical leadership and guidance to project teams and clients on protection philosophy, scheme selection, relay application, metering, interlocking, trip logic an

- **Id**: 4061169
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/kbr-principal-electrical-engineer-protection>
- **Role**: Hardware
- **Role family**: Hardware
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Khobar, Saudi Arabia
- **Countries**: SA
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 12
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-11T08:46:12Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-11
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-12T12:35:42Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 1
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2592
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Military Logistics, Space Services, Engineering Services

## Company

- **Id**: 4344
- **Name**: KBR
- **Domain**: kbr.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/kbr>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 81
- **Open postings**: 492
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.974
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 14
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 1

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 12
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-11T08:46:12Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 63
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.632
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 1
- **Expected fill days**: 14
- **Reasons**: conf:4, stale_co, velocity, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

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