Automation & RTU Engineer

Posted a week ago by Enzen Global

Location:
Nationwide

About Enzen

Enzen is a global knowledge enterprise that focuses on gaining, refining and sharing expertise in the energy and utility sector. It provides strategic advisory and delivery of outcome-driven solutions to leading businesses, governments, non-governmental organisations and not-for-profits.

We work with customers across the value chain to deliver sustainable and lasting improvements to their efficiency and performance, adding value to their bottom line. Enzen is unique in providing a wide range of strategic advisory, engineering services and solutions end-to-end for the power, water, gas and renewable energy sectors, supported by our specialised Centres of Excellence.

Founded in 2006, the business has since grown and developed across the globe, with a presence in Australia, India, Portugal, Spain, Turkey, the UK and USA.

Role Summary
RTU and Automation Engineer will perform engineering activities to build the substation
automation system in the power distribution network leading up to site commissioning to ensure projects are executed in accordance with company procedures, contract specifications and schedule commitments. He/she will be responsible to carry out site surveys, need analysis, design, manage and deliver the related systems. He/she will work with internal teams at the DNO, and with vendors as needed, to arrive at commercial options and document them.


Key Responsibilities
● Carrying out site surveys, development of related single-line diagrams, development of automation flow charts.
● Prepare the technical design of the automation plan and design along with the drawings and the specifications.
● Understanding of engineering documentation such as P&IDs, process flow diagrams and standard operating procedures.
● Deliberation of the technical design of the RTU panels, drawings, detailed specification etc. with the customers for acceptance.
● Has sufficient knowledge and or experience to avoid danger when working in a Grid or Primary substation.
● Be accountable for identifying the correct Point(s) of Work and protecting the Working Party or any Third Parties through the provision of Special Operating Conditions or Restrictions.
● Hands on experience control system engineering design including schematics preparation, review of engineering documents, protection relay configuration, testing commissioning/troubleshooting.
● Power system, substation and MV/HV switchgear knowledge is preferred.
● Responsibility in development of Remote Terminal Unit (RTU) programming logic
● Configuration of network protection relays, energy analyzers and other peripherals.
● Design and development of end-to-end communication network architecture starting from protection relays in the field passing through the RTU to the utility control center ensuring the sustainability of the data communication in the same path.
● Promote and enforces safe working environment by enforcing and supporting adequate HSE measures in all activities undertaken by himself & the team, follows ethics and compliances as per company guidelines.


Desired Experience
● Hands-on experience with specific focus in substation automation for DNO’s in HV/LV network particularly in a geographically dispersed and matrixed managed organisation
● Network switching experience on distribution network. Authorisation certificate for
network switching (upto 33kV) from a power DNO is nice to have.
● Familiarity with design tools like Autocad or equivalent for substation layouts, cable
schedules, wiring and termination charts is nice to have.
● Having a particular knowledge on at least 2 of the areas below:
o RTU programming IEC(phone number removed)
o RTU & peripherals communication
oCommunication media such as RF, 3G/4G, Fiber, LPWAN etc.
o Communication protocols: IEC 61850, IEC 104, DNP 3.0, MQTT
o Network Protection
● Familiarity with factory and site acceptance tests from design to approval phase.
● Good communication skills for team working culture, ability to generate techno economic reports with apt writing skills.

Type:
Permanent
Start Date:
asap
Contract Length:
Permanent
Job Reference:
Automation & RTU Engineer
Job ID:
221496584
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