Senior Control & Protection System Application Engineer
- Stafford, Staffordshire
- Permanent
- Full-time
- As a Senior Control & Protection 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.
- 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.
- Will be 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.
- 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.
- Degree in Electronics / Electrical engineering or proven equivalent knowledge and experience in HVDC business.
- Extensive and demonstrated 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.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills.
- Exceptional interpersonal and leadership skills.
- Demonstrated ability to analyze 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.
- Demonstrates track record of designing quality systems/components that exceed design reqs, beat cost targets, and exceed reliability targets.