Role Overview
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.
Key Responsibilities
- 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.