Senior Protection Engineer for substations for offshore wind farms

Would you like to help us ensure quality, efficiency and continuous development within wind power by building grid connections for offshore wind farms?

Join us and become Senior Protection Engineer in Transformers & HV Components where you’ll be responsible for planning, designing and purchasing electrical equipment for onshore and offshore substations for wind farms. You’ll join our team of skilled specialists working with the protection of the transmission system for our wind farms.

Your key tasks will be to

• work with integrated relay protection as well as with process data analyses, power system disturbances and fault analyses of electrical installations onshore and offshore, with voltage levels from 0.4kV to 400kV
• prepare protection system basic and detailed design and philosophy for onshore and offshore wind farm substations
• perform current transformer and voltage transformer sizing calculations as well as preparing technical requirements for protection systems in tender documents for offshore and onshore substations
• review suppliers’ detailed protection design documents, IEC61850 design, protection system schematics, relay configuration, factory acceptance test and site acceptance test procedures and reports.

Furthermore, you’ll participate in factory acceptance testing and site acceptance testing and in the commissioning of protection systems on site. You’ll assist in preparing substation interlocking logic and SCADA signal and alarm lists as well as investigating and analysing high-voltage faults from relay disturbance records and preparing technical reports

Your competences include that you

• can communicate and collaborate with different types of people from different cultures
• have a relevant degree in electrical engineering or similar and are interested in working with electrical infrastructure for wind farms
• have acquired professional skills based on extensive, relevant protection system design and have testing experience and knowledge of installed protection systems, ideally including experience with high-voltage installations
• are familiar with relay configuration and communication tools from various suppliers
• speak and write English fluently.

In addition, you have experience from using the IEC 61850 communication protocol in relation to your work as well as having experience of protection system setting calculation and coordination. You also have experience utilising technical and system software programs, and you’re familiar with the international standards IEC, IEEE and ANSI. Moreover, it’s an advantage if you have experience with offshore wind farms and electronic document handling systems.

You have personal drive combined with both an analytical and responsible approach to your work. Additionally, you enjoy sharing your knowledge with your colleagues in the project group and the department. Working on big wind projects requires good cooperation skills and a flexible mindset, as the work on the project is very varied.

Working at Ørsted
To be the frontrunner in the green energy transformation, we invest significantly in innovation and empower our employees to help shape the renewable energy technologies of the future. We cultivate a collaborative, dynamic and diverse work environment and encourage career-long learning and development so our people can realise their full potential.

Would you like to help shape the renewable technologies of the future?
Send your application to us as soon as possible and no later than 15 April 2019, as we’ll be conducting interviews on a continuous basis.

Please don’t hesitate to contact Katrine Heilmann, Manager of Protection in Transformers &HV Components, by telephone on +45 9955 7830 if you’d like to know more about the position.

You should expect some travelling in relation to your work.

The job includes opportunities for expatriation during the test and commissioning phase on the construction sites.