# Principal Design Engineer - Protection & Control

**Company:** JSM Group 
**Department:** Power
**Location:** Faridabad
**Remote status:** Hybrid
**Employment type:** Full-time

To enable us to fully deliver our projects we are looking for an innovative and passionate **Principal Design Engineer - Protection & Control** to work on projects from initial concept and feasibility through to procurement specification, construction and commissioning. The successful candidate will have the chance to work on a wide variety of EHV (up to 400kV) substation design aspects, and our project program facilitates the roll-out of substation construction works from 11kV up to 400kV, along with providing support for increasing customer connection activity.

**Job Description Lead protection design engineer: -**

- Lead a team of 2-3 engineers and CAD.

- Maintain project momentum and deliver required milestones.

- Liaise with project managers and the Head of Engineering.

- Provide status updates for each project.

- Review and approve design deliverables prepared by senior engineers.

- Oversee annual performance appraisals and development activities for team members, and report to the Head of Engineering.

**What we’re looking for**

• HNC level qualification in Electrical Engineering with proven experience in a related engineering discipline;   
• The ability to technically assess and solve issues, with a thorough understanding of the technical requirements of the protection aspects of the projects;   
• Experience all voltages of transmission voltage plant and equipment is advantageous;   
• Ideally experience in preparing and manipulating engineering drawings, using computer-aided design tools (e.g. AutoCAD) as this is the main tool we use;   
• Be willing to travel and participate in site meetings throughout the UK when necessary.

**Technical skills but not limited to:**

- Taking lead on Meetings for protection design part for each substation

- Develop Key line diagram -Concept (even when no protection design of concept is given from client side)

- Settings calculations

- CT/VT selection and calculation

- Wiring diagram

- Termination diagram

- Battery sizing

- Meeting with clients and working with multiple standards

- In depth knowledge working principle of each IED

- Liaising with DNOs and their side of design. (Interface design)

- Finalizing protection panel GA drgs etc

- Simple electrical calculation which are required to check Specifications of equipment’s

- Checking supplier drgs

- Liaising with other disciplines

- Selecting relays

- Last but not least sometimes we work without client specification, as most of our client don’t know what the want ,  so someone should be able to drive the design.

- Sometimes will have to go to site to troubleshoot any issues with commissioning engineer.

- Testing of IED, visiting Panel supplier factory

- Multicore sheets schedule

**Your projects will include:**

- HVAC substation primary and secondary design and HVDC Offshore Windfarm projects

**Your role will give you opportunities to:**

- Perform work in accordance with the agreed budget and schedule with little supervision.

- Independently perform the tasks necessary to complete primary design elements for engineering works to standard and compliant regulations.

- Coordinate across project disciplines, external subcontractors and remote offices such that technical risks are identified and mitigated, and all statutory and regulatory requirements are met.

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