Application Design Engineer

Engineer with Control and Protection Application design knowledge, Relay configuration, FAT and Site commissioning experience by holding an Engineer-Bachelor's degree from a recognized and reputed institution with minimum experience of more than 10 years in Electrical /Power System engineering domain.

- Provides technical complex designs and optimizations to customer projects & services teams, by having solid technical knowledge and knowhow in an application domain or subdomain

- Understands customer needs and translates them into technical requirements; may help customers to define their needs

- Helps establish project or service technical strategies, internal procedures & best practices in application domain/subdomain

- Communicates results, issues and solutions internally and to customers

- Troubleshoots product and system issues related to his/her application domain/subdomain;

- Provides some commercial argumentation to project teams or management, and identifies & reports potential technical risks if any

Scope and Environment

Works both in autonomy and in team work, with contribution to optimize and secure project or service teams' technical solution designs.

Works for internal project and service technical teams (i.e. for DPT, DQT, DCT job family codes) along all the

customer installation lifecycle, with direct interaction with external stakeholders/customers related to his/her application domain/subdomain.

Key activities and Responsibility

Customer and/or Partner relationships:

- Drives interactions with customer on technical topics. Understands customer specifications and translate/explain them to other project members; challenges those requirements versus SE available solutions & capabilities.

Internal & External Exposure:

- Influences and challenges internal project teams on the technical choices related to application

domain/subdomain and ensure convergence of the project team towards the best solution; delivers and presents results and argumentations (technical reports, presentations, etc) - not limited to the project team.

May participate in technical internal working groups related to application domain/subdomain and in technical communication initiatives.

Project and Risk Management:

- Knows the fundamentals of Project Management to aware of the Cost/Quality targets (mainly related to work); identifies and alerts in case of any deviations from the standard scope of work related to application domain/subdomain; issues regular progress reports to the project team; detects technical variation order opportunities related to application domain/subdomain.

Technical knowledge and Engineering:

- Applies engineering best practices & standards; has solid knowledge of the product & system offers (internal & external) related to application domain and subdomain. Carries out detailed engineering work and provide associated reporting to project team members; knows and uses the methods & tools related to application

domain/subdomain and may participate in improvement workshops on those methods & tools.

Training and coaching:

- Exchanges and shares your knowledge peers; gather feedback from other application design engineers;

participates in the development of training modules or presentations about his/her application

domain/subdomain.

Skills and Experiences

- Experience in Protection and Application design knowledge in HV, MV & LV system

- Knowledge of various protection applications including Overcurrent, Differential, Distance, Generator & Motor is must

- Preparation of engineering documents such as Protection Conceptual Design, Functional Specifications, FAT & SAT Test Plans

- Familiarity and Work experience with all ranges of SE numerical relays

- ABB, Simenes, GE, SEL & others makes relays knowledge and work experience will be an added

advantages

- Basic understanding of SCADA and Communication protocols including IEC61850, Modbus, etc is must

- Relay setting & logic file preparation including CID/ICD file

- Protection Relay Site Commisisoning experience is must

- Perform CT, VT calcualiton, Protection realy setting calculation, Configuration, Testing and validation

- Participate customer FAT and Site commissioning

- Ready for travel and overseas deputations for FAT and Site Commissioning

- Basic power system knowledge and ETAP tool experience is an added advantage

- CRP and Automation panel design will be preferable

- Autocad, Elecdesk, E-base, E-Plan and other engineering tool experience will be an added advantage

- To coordinate with Internal or end customer for technical cooridantion and documents approval

- Good in english communications (written and verbal)

Qualifications

B.E/B.Tech Electrical engineering

Minimum 10 years of experience in relevant field

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