# Protection Engineer - Senior

Back Protection Engineer - Senior Job Details Post date4 June, 2026 CountryUSA SectorOffshore Wind Contact Job ID 288821 Protection Engineer required for a major Offshore Wind Farm Developer based in The United States. Responsibilities: Perform commissioning, testing, validation, and troubleshooting of protection and control systems for high-voltage electrical installations. Configure, test, and maintain protection relays, control systems, and associated communication interfaces. Support installation, energization, and commissioning activities for HVDC and HVAC transmission projects. Analyse protection system performance and investigate faults, disturbances, and equipment failures. Review and interpret protection schemes, single-line diagrams, wiring diagrams, and technical documentation. Conduct relay settings verification and protection coordination studies as required. Participate in site acceptance testing (SAT), factory acceptance testing (FAT), and commissioning procedures. Requirements: Valid full GWOs. Experience as an HVDC Protection Engineer. Strong knowledge of Siemens HVDC protection and control equipment. Experience supporting Siemens HVDC commissioning or servic

- **Id**: 1891351
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/taylor-hopkinson-protection-engineer-senior>
- **Role**: Energy
- **Role family**: Energy
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: contractor
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: explicit
- **Locations**: Glasgow, United Kingdom
- **Countries**: GB
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-06-04T16:22:22Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-06-04
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-06T16:13:55Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 155
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 1599
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Energy & Utilities, Hydrogen Energy, Wind Energy

## Company

- **Id**: 2058438
- **Name**: Taylor Hopkinson
- **Domain**: taylorhopkinson.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/taylorhopkinson>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: yes
- **Employer type**: agency
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Schema

### Truth index

- **Grade**: C
- **Score**: 64
- **Open postings**: 199
- **Ghost share**: 0.518
- **Stale share**: 0
- **Repost share**: 0.005
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 79
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-06T05:58:05Z

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 61000
- **Max usd**: 123000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: global_role_cell_scaled_by_country
- **Sample n**: 194

## Trust

- **Level**: ghost
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Flags**: stale, company_stale
- **Days open**: 154

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-10-05T05:14:43Z

## Visa

- Country: GB; Licensed sponsor: yes; Evidence: Licensed UK visa sponsor (Senior or Specialist Worker, Skilled Worker); Route: Global Business Mobility: Senior or Specialist Worker; Skilled Worker; Cap exempt: no; Checked at: 2026-11-06T06:20:25+00:00

## Liveness

- **Score**: 10
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.288
- **P room**: 0.36
- **Age days**: 154
- **Expected fill days**: 79
- **Reasons**: conf:5, agency, stale_co, ghost, win:tail, crowd:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-06T05:58:05Z

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