R&D Engineer - HVDC Control and Protection Engineer - IDC Job in Chennai at Hitachi Energy India

Hitachi Energy is hiring for the role of R&D Engineer - HVDC Control and Protection Engineer - IDC!

Responsibilities of the Candidates:

• Supporting Global R&D projects by adapting the HVDC base Control and Protection software (MACH) based on the provided study reports and performing the HIL (Hardware in loop) testing in the lab environment.
• Setting up and maintaining the lab environment for the different HVDC R&D projects.
• Developing Control and Protection solutions encompassing full development cycle (design to delivery) for future HVDC technologies, ongoing HVDC projects, and other business units.
• Performing pre studies for the proposed Control and Protection ideas using EMT tools and identifying the right solutions.
• Performing power system Protection studies using EMT tools based on project requirements to optimize the fault detection algorithms and setting philosophies.
• Developing automated testing solutions using secondary injection test kits to perform the protection testing in the HVDC projects to improve quality and productivity.
• Developing test cases using EMT tools for the testing of HVDC Control and Protection functions in the virtual environment.
• Functional type testing of AC protection functions as per the IEC standards using secondary injection kits and real-time simulation environment and get the certification done from the authorized external laboratories.

Requirements:

• 2 to 7 years of experience in the mentioned field
• BE/BTECH in Electrical and Electronics Engineering
• Knowledge and/or experience in at least of one of the following areas: HVDC, Electric Power System Analysis, Protection Relays, Automatic Control Theory, Power System Simulation.
• Should understand different Control and Protection schematics of a HV/LV electrical substation.
• Basic knowledge about communication protocols like IEC61850, MODBUS etc and SAS system.
• Should have experience in developing the test cases for the Protection function testing using secondary test kits like Omicron, Doble etc.
• Knowledge on PSCAD, MATLAB, or any other simulation software available for electric power system and control system and RTDS, Hyper Sim, or any other electric power system simulators is an added advantage.
• Knowledge about HVDC Control and Protection system will be considered as a plus.
• Automation of test cases using the Python, Omicron, etc scripts is an added advantage