Senior Authorised Protection Commissioning Engineer

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The Senior Authorised Protection Commissioning Engineer provides advanced commissioning and integration services for protection, control, and SCADA systems across all distribution asset classes. This role encompasses all aspects of project-based commissioning activities, ensuring new equipment and protection schemes are fully commissioned and integrated with existing systems, meeting regulatory and customer obligations.,

  • Undertake all duties required of a Protection Commissioning Engineer, including:
  • Pre-commissioning inspections and off-load commissioning tests.
  • Verification of detailed schematics against connection, protection, and tripping logic diagrams.
  • Attend Factory Acceptance Testing and project meetings as required.
  • Witness testing of primary substation plant (circuit breakers, switches/disconnectors, transformers, voltage and current transformers).
  • Insulation resistance, primary and secondary injection tests.
  • Circuit logic and relay logic tests.
  • Protection relay checks (distance, feeder differential, transformer differential, frequency, G99, high impedance busbar, blocked busbar protection).
  • Auto-reclose scheme, intertripping, and signalling equipment checks.
  • Integration testing of protection systems with control and SCADA (DNP3, IEC61850).
  • Testing and proving relay programmable logic and setting files.
  • Fully commission new items of plant and protection, integrating them with existing systems.
  • Hold relevant authorisations under Distribution Safety Rules to commission, operate, and maintain all protection systems up to and including 132kV.
  • Perform operational switching relevant to the voltages being commissioned.
  • Provide guidance and support to other members of the Protection Commissioning Team.
  • Complete all work in line with company objectives (time, cost, quality) and provide accurate reports on progress and status.
  • Use and update company data and information systems, including comprehensive commissioning records and fault/defect investigations.
  • Undertake duties under the CDM Regulations as Designer and/or Contractor.

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Job Description:

The Senior Authorised Protection Commissioning Engineer provides advanced commissioning and integration services for protection, control, and SCADA systems across all distribution asset classes. This role encompasses all aspects of project-based commissioning activities, ensuring new equipment and protection schemes are fully commissioned and integrated with existing systems, meeting regulatory and customer obligations.,

  • Undertake all duties required of a Protection Commissioning Engineer, including:
  • Pre-commissioning inspections and off-load commissioning tests.
  • Verification of detailed schematics against connection, protection, and tripping logic diagrams.
  • Attend Factory Acceptance Testing and project meetings as required.
  • Witness testing of primary substation plant (circuit breakers, switches/disconnectors, transformers, voltage and current transformers).
  • Insulation resistance, primary and secondary injection tests.
  • Circuit logic and relay logic tests.
  • Protection relay checks (distance, feeder differential, transformer differential, frequency, G99, high impedance busbar, blocked busbar protection).
  • Auto-reclose scheme, intertripping, and signalling equipment checks.
  • Integration testing of protection systems with control and SCADA (DNP3, IEC61850).
  • Testing and proving relay programmable logic and setting files.
  • Fully commission new items of plant and protection, integrating them with existing systems.
  • Hold relevant authorisations under Distribution Safety Rules to commission, operate, and maintain all protection systems up to and including 132kV.
  • Perform operational switching relevant to the voltages being commissioned.
  • Provide guidance and support to other members of the Protection Commissioning Team.
  • Complete all work in line with company objectives (time, cost, quality) and provide accurate reports on progress and status.
  • Use and update company data and information systems, including comprehensive commissioning records and fault/defect investigations.
  • Undertake duties under the CDM Regulations as Designer and/or Contractor.

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Posted: April 11th, 2026