Insulation Coordination Engineer - HVDC

The opportunity:

Hitachi Energy is a world leader that is advancing a sustainable energy future for all. We are advancing the world’s energy system to be more sustainable, flexible, and secure, and we collaborate with customers and partners to enable a sustainable energy future – for today’s generations and those to come.

The Hitachi Energy Indian Operations Center (INOPC) is a competence center with around 3000+ skilled engineers who focus on tendering, engineering, planning, procurement, project Management, functional system testing, installation supervision, documentation and commissioning. However, over the last decade, it has evolved to become the largest Operations hub. The India Operations Centre team at Chennai, Bangalore and Gurugram supports Hitachi Energy’s units in more than 40 countries across a wide portfolio of all the four business units in Hitachi Energy To date, the team has executed engineering and commissioning for projects in more than 80 countries.

In this role you will design authority for an engineering discipline with low to medium complexity. Complete assignments on small projects or portions of larger projects, cost-effectively and in accordance with contract specifications, quality standards and safety requirements.

As Insulation Coordination Engineer, you will design authority for an engineering discipline with low to medium complexity. Complete assignments on small projects or portions of larger projects, cost-effectively and in accordance with contract specifications, quality standards and safety requirements         

How you’ll make an impact:

• You will be study and verify the overvoltage protection scheme through simulations in PSCAD/EMTDC including specifying fault scenarios to be investigated for the project and simulate the overvoltage’s that will be input for equipment specifications and mechanical layout.

• You will be involved in projects, tenders, base and R&D work.

• To successfully take on this position, you need to be thorough and structured with a high technical interest and strive for good solutions within the set time limits.

• To grow with each task, enabling yourself to develop and take more and more responsibility. HVDC is a complex product, there is always more to learn.

• Handle the interface with other interfacing departments. Ensuring you understand their needs, and they yours, and to work for a good corporation for best end results together.

• Living Hitachi Energy core values of safety and integrity, which means taking responsibility for your own actions while caring for your colleagues and the business.                                                            

Your background:      

• Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical with 3 to 6 years / Master of Engineering in Power Systems   with 2 to 5 years.

• Should have knowledge of Power Systems equipment and their purpose, such as Power Transformers, Capacitors, Reactors, Instrument Transformer and measuring equipment, Circuit Breakers, Disconnector, Surge Arrester etc. 

• Knowledge in selection, sizing and integration of above equipment based on customer functional specification.                                                                                                             

• Extensive knowledge of Power Systems studies and modelling of electrical network

• Understanding and design of Electrical Power Systems and controls

• Preferably knowledge on IEC/IEEE standards.

• Preferably Understanding application of Power Electronics in HV/EHV system like HVDC and FACTS.   

• Proven skills in using computers as a calculation tool.

• Preferably experience of power system simulation tools such as PSSE, EMTDC /PSCAD and calculations in MATLAB / Mathcad.