Senior Protection Settings Engineer

77543 - Senior Protection Settings Engineer

This Senior Protection Settings Engineer will report to the Design Manager and will work within Capital Programme based in our London, Elephant and Castle office. You will be a permanent employee.

You will attract a salary of £71,914 plus car and a bonus of 3%.

Should you not have the full range of essential skills, qualifications and competencies listed below, there may be an opportunity for further training to equip you. If you do not have all relevant competencies for the core grade, it will be appropriate to appoint at a lower grade until you have developed the required competencies.

Close Date:.13/02/2024 All applications will be reviewed after the close date.

We also provide the following additional benefits

• Annual Leave
• Personal Pension Plan - Personal contribution rates of 4% or 5% (UK Power Networks will make a corresponding contribution of 8% or 10%)
• Tenancy Loan Deposit scheme
• Tax efficient benefits: cycle to work scheme
• Season ticket loan
• Occupational Health support
• Switched On - scheme providing discount on hundreds of retailers products.
• Discounted access to sports and social clubs
• Employee Assistance Programme.

Job Purpose:

Produce Protection Settings and configuration files for implementation across the UKPN network at all voltage levels 132 kV to 11 kV. Largely based on accepted standards although custom and complex settings and reviews are often required, as such the team is a point of reference for settings throughout the networks business.

You shall be able to satisfy the following general requirements:

• Produce the Protection Settings and suitable relay logic.
• Supply complete settings to customers and recording settings in asset management data records.
• Quality Assurance of colleagues work and those produced by others external partners where they are working on our behalf to ensure they are fit for purpose.
• Attend Design Review meetings to ensure protection and control settings requirements are an important part of the electrical design package.
• Support the wider UKPN business in technical matters relating to the job role (in particular the protection commissioning team).
• Be a point of reference in the business for the primary and grid settings queries.
• Identify ways of providing network protection solutions that reduce costs.
• Assist the business to review protection mal operations.
• Create settings for ad hoc non-planed network events like protection depletions.

Principal Accountabilities:

Provide main and back up settings and relay logic files, ensuring grading, clearance times and stability for the running arrangements specified.

Use information provided by asset management and using network analysis software, check and work out fault levels, undertake fault studies and ensure system stability is provided by protection schemes within agreed parameters.

Support Asset Management by providing feedback of protection relay selection, standard setting arrangements, relay type codes and suitable software versions.

Knowledge of Auto switching / DAR, CBF, Anti-islanding, Unit and non-unit protection schemes, Intertripping, Fibre / pilot communication, monitoring / fault recording including the interpretation and analysis of fault records.

Ensure that all new settings created and sent out are received at site and then uploaded into SAP (following commissioning completion) to ensure asset management records are maintained.

Ensure that all settings sent out to our internal and external customers are quality assured to ED processes.

Collaborate with UKPN teams concerning protection setting queries.

Support and mentor others in the development of professional engineering skills.

Qualifications:

Electrical engineering background - experience in electrical engineering 11 kV network up to 132 kV, including specification, design, application and commissioning aspects.

Knowledge of the power distribution network protection systems at all voltage levels 11 kV to 132 kV.

Knowledge of communication protocols where they apply to protection and control systems.

Understand and interpret multiple technical information ranging from complex technical manuals through to site drawings sematic and wiring diagrams.

Work unsupervised, set targets, and deliver settings.

Knowledge of internal, national and international standards relevant to the specifying of protection equipment and settings.

Knowledge of relevant applications, in particular: Word, Excel, DIgSILENT, AMTECH, Manufactures protection interface software and SAP data base.

HND as a minimum, or degree and above; preferred in electrical engineering (or in engineering science), with relevant protection experience.

Chartered Engineer or working towards achieving Chartership.

Nature and Scope:

Largely desk-based, the post also requires visits to operational sites, construction sites, site meetings, manufactures meetings (at their premisses) and internal review meetings.

UK Power Networks is committed to a policy of equality in its employment practices and values a workforce that is representative of the customers we serve and the communities in which we work. We consider our people to be crucial to achieving success. We believe that it is important for our employees to strike a sensible balance between work and life outside work and will consider requests for working arrangements under the Work-Life Solutions process.

UK Power Networks is committed to securing the highest standards of health and safety at work and of care for the environment. You will have an appropriate level of understanding of the arrangements for health, safety and the environment that apply to this business and are required for this job.