Protection Engineer - HVDC

Location:

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Job ID:

R0089911

Date Posted:

2025-05-23

Company Name:

HITACHI ENERGY TECHNOLOGY SERVICES PRIVATE LIMITED

Profession (Job Category):

Engineering & Science

Job Schedule: 

Full time

Remote:

No

Job Description:

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.

The technical marketing engineer for Mission Critical telecommunication Solutions (MCS) has the global responsibility to enable the Pre-Sales & Sales community of the different regional HUBs to understand technical market requirements for wired telecommunication networks and ensure customer interaction in line with global solution/product strategy. Support sales organizations in driving sales by your technical expertise. Provide relevant customer & market inputs to product management and R&D activities, ensuring market alignment and relevance.  

How you’ll make an impact:

• Design HVDC Protection Logics and Algorithms for HVDC Protects across the globe.

• Develop Protection Functions / Solutions for HVDC Project.

• Perform Power system protection coordination based on Project requirement to optimize fault detection algorithms and setting philosophies.

• Support projects in resolving the issues related to Control and Protection Functions.

• Design HVDC Protection Logics and Algorithms for HVDC Protects across the globe.

• Develop Protection Functions / Solutions for HVDC Project.

• Perform Power system protection coordination based on Project requirement to optimize fault detection algorithms and setting philosophies.

• Support projects in resolving the issues related to Control and Protection Functions.

• Coordinate with different stakeholders across the business units to get inputs to optimize the HVDC solutions.

• Living Hitachi Energy’s 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’s degree in electrical and Electronics with a minimum work experience of 1 to 6 years in Control and Protection system. 

• You should have knowledge in PSCAD, MATLAB, or any other Simulation Software. 

• You must have basic knowledge on IEEE / IEC standards. 

• You should have experience in substation environment and protection application.

• Experience in technical tender support or bidding is preferrable.

• Experience in substation environment and protection application is an added advantage.

• Self-starter caliber who could own tasks through to completion.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

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