Syncon System Design Senior Professional
Hitachi
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, IndiaremotePosted 5 months ago
Skill Required
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Key highlights
- 5 – 8 years’ experience required
- Bachelor’s or master’s in electrical/power systems engineering required
- Hands-on experience in MATLAB, PSCAD, or PSSE required
Role overview
Engineering authority in design and design studies for projects/tenders for Power Quality Solutions. The role involves completing assignments on small projects or portions of larger projects, ensuring cost-effectiveness, adherence to contract specifications, quality standards, safety requirements, and international standards. The position requires defining solution topologies, performing system calculations, validating equipment dimensions, specifying main equipment, and coordinating with suppliers based on technical specifications from end customers and inputs from the OU Engineering team.
Responsibilities
- Complete assignments on small projects or portions of larger projects cost-effectively and in accordance with contract specifications, quality standards, safety requirements, and international standards
- Define Topology of the solutions, perform system calculations, validate the equipment dimensions, specify the main equipment, and involve in supplier co-ordination based on technical specifications from end customers and inputs from OU Engineering team
- Perform design studies such as harmonic performance, protection design, insulation co-ordination including lightning studies, loss evaluation, and reliability study
- Review of Tender document, technical specifications and preparation of Design Basis Document
- Define Topology of the solutions (SLD & PBD) by doing system investigations
- Carry out RMS and EMT based power system simulations
- Assess the load flow and short circuit contributions of the system to dimension the key equipment
- Perform Loss Evaluation and Reliability calculations
- Design auxiliary systems – AC/DC Equipment sizing
- Maintain and update the documentation for respective projects as per quality process
- Coordinate with other departments like Project management, Electrical, Electro mechanical, control design, supply chain for design progress & completion
- Ensure on-time delivery of design deliverables and monitor project schedule impacts
- Obtain customer approvals for the designs and drawings
- Conduct technical risk and opportunity assessment and validation
- Participate in customer meetings / site visits for tender/project clarifications
- Support and act as interface engineer during erection & commissioning
- Estimate engineering effort for each project for costing at tender stage
- Ensure compliance with applicable external and internal regulations, procedures, and guidelines
- Live Hitachi Energy’s core values of safety and integrity, taking responsibility for your own actions while caring for your colleagues and the business
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering or master’s in power systems engineering
- 5 – 8 years’ experience
- Experience with substation design and equipment dimensioning (Syncon machine, reactor, Circuit breaker, Power transformer, busbar etc.)
- Experience with specifying power system components and evaluation of vendor documents
- Hands-on experience in MATLAB, PSCAD or PSSE
- Experience in coordinating with suppliers for the optimal design of main system components, evaluating their design and test record documents
- Proficiency in both spoken & written English language
- Individual contributor using in-depth knowledge in a specific area to execute complex or specialized projects/challenges, often thinking independently to challenge traditional solutions
- Comprehensive knowledge of related disciplines in the organization
- Works independently, applying established standards
- Dynamic and Proactive, willing to grow in the organization
- Team player, ready to play the role across different countries
- High level of ownership and able to guide and plan works for the team
Nice to have
- In-depth understanding of basics of power system steady state, dynamic and transient behaviour
- In-depth understanding of international standards (i.e., IEEE/IEC/GIGRE) for specifying power system components and design studies
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