Relay Protection Engineer

This role is for one of the Weekday's clients

Salary range: Rs 1000000 - Rs 1500000 (ie INR 10-15 LPA)

Requirements

Key Responsibilities

• Perform end-to-end relay testing, commissioning, and maintenance of protection systems across substations, power plants, or industrial facilities.
• Review, configure, and verify settings for numerical, digital, and electromechanical relays, including distance, differential, over-current, earth-fault, and other protection schemes.
• Conduct protection coordination studies and develop relay settings using industry-standard tools and OEM software.
• Analyze system disturbances, faults, and events by reviewing relay records, fault reports, SOE logs, and oscillography; recommend corrective and preventive measures.
• Prepare, execute, and document testing procedures, including primary injection, secondary injection, scheme testing, logic verification, and functional checks.
• Support commissioning activities for new substations, transformers, switchgear, and protection panels by ensuring accurate wiring, CT/PT checks, and scheme validation.
• Collaborate with design, operations, and maintenance teams to ensure protection systems align with project specifications, grid codes, and safety regulations.
• Troubleshoot system issues related to relay misoperations, wiring faults, communication failures, CT/PT inaccuracies, and SCADA/IED interface problems.
• Participate in root cause analysis for protection system failures and assist in implementing reliability improvements.
• Maintain accurate documentation of relay settings, test reports, as-built drawings, and configuration files for audit and compliance requirements.
• Ensure adherence to electrical safety practices, isolation procedures, and applicable national/international standards (IEC, IEEE, IS, NERC, etc.).
• Assist in training junior engineers, technicians, and field staff on relay testing tools, procedures, and protection concepts.
  

Required Skills & Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent; specialization in Power Systems preferred.
• 3-8 years of hands-on experience in protection engineering, relay testing, or power system commissioning.
• Strong expertise with numerical relays from vendors such as ABB, Siemens, GE, SEL, Schneider, or similar.
• Proficiency in relay testing equipment like Omicron (CPC 100, CMC series), Megger, or equivalent.
• Practical knowledge of protection schemes including transformer, feeder, line, motor, generator, busbar, and differential protection.
• Experience working with SCADA integration, communication protocols (IEC 61850, DNP3, Modbus), and substation automation systems.
• Ability to read and interpret protection SLDs, logic diagrams, wiring drawings, and panel layouts.
• Strong analytical, diagnostic, and troubleshooting skills, especially under field and outage conditions.
• Excellent communication, reporting, and teamwork abilities.
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in EPC, utility, transmission/distribution, renewable energy, or heavy industrial environments.
• Exposure to FAT/SAT activities, substation automation, and protection panel design considered an advantage.