About the Role
The Principal Electrical Engineer is responsible for the development, review, and coordination of substation automation, protection, control, monitoring, and communication requirements for projects in the Oil & Gas, hydrocarbon, and infrastructure industries. With a minimum of 12+ years of progressive experience, this role requires demonstrated leadership of a medium team of electrical engineers and designers as well as experience in conceptual, FEED, and detailed engineering of medium to large scale projects.
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Duties and Responsibilities
- Lead a team of 5 to 8 electrical engineers and designers
- Develop and review the Power System Automation philosophy, system architecture, functional design specifications, network architecture, and interface requirements.
- Define the integration of protection relays, intelligent electronic devices, meters, switchgear, transformers, motor control centers, UPS systems, battery chargers, and other electrical equipment with the PSA system.
- Review PSA panels, operator workstations, engineering workstations, servers, gateways, managed switches, GPS time-synchronization systems, and associated network components.
- Coordinate interfaces between the PSA system and SCADA, SAS, RTU, DCS, ESD, PMS, load-shedding systems, electrical control systems, and remote-control centers, as applicable.
- Provide SME-level technical leadership and guidance for PSA system design, I/O engineering, protection interfaces, automation architecture, and system integration.
- Prepare/review MR and TBE and perform detailed Vendor NMR reviews for PSA/SCADA interfaces and related electrical equipment.
- Ensure design integrity of electrical scope, performance of assigned staff, and on-schedule delivery of the work within budget.
- Lead technical presentations to Clients and their representatives as required.
Key Interactions
- Collaborate with other disciplines activities
- Engage with vendors (technical)
- Interact with project management
- Communicate with clients and their representatives
Qualifications & Years of Experience
- Minimum Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering
- A minimum of 12+ years experience in Oil & Gas, hydrocarbon, petroleum refinery and infrastructure industries.
Key Skills & Technical Competencies
- Expert knowledge and understanding of protection engineering design practices, including protection philosophy, scheme development, relay application and settings, protection & metering drawings, AC/DC schematics, tripping logic, interlocking, CT/VT selection and protection interfaces for electrical systems up to 115 kV.
- Wide knowledge of codes and industry standards including IEEE, NFPA, API, IEC, ANSI/NEMA.
- Extensive knowledge in Electrical Power Systems, Protection Philosophy & Protection Device Coordination.
- Knowledge of Saudi Aramco, SABIC Standards and procedures will be an added advantage.
