job_title - Protection and Metering Senior Engineer

Oman Investment Authority

The implementation and maintenance of all Protection and Metering equipment, ensuring that all policies, procedures and safety rules are adhered to:

Responsibilities:

• Supervising the checking of the safety documents for all protection equipment
• Carry out daily safety checks
• Issuing Safety documents for related Protection activates with Zone
• Where possible to rectify any safety issues discovered in the checking Reporting all occurrences to the relevant departments across OETC
• Supervising and carrying out preventative measures to ensure a safe working environment
• Working within the framework of LOA (Limitation of Access), SFT (Sanction for Test) and PTW (Permit to Work) safety documents
• Supervising and ensuring that there is continuous availability of the system and that the system is working safely
• Timely restoration of all outages
• Preparation of the annual protection maintenance schedule
• Carry out all maintenance in line with the annual maintenance schedule
• The collection of data related to the function to be used for protection, devices and meter reference and store this information in the Central Log
• Analysis the Protection and Metering data and the reporting system operation performance
• Provide technical expertise to LDC, AMP and Strategic Planning and Project Departments.
• Fault analysis after tripping occurrences and rectifying to re energize
• Ensure protective relays function promptly at the time of fault conditions with proper coordination
• Checking the relays setting calculations, equipment design calculations and the fault level calculations
• Contribution towards the preparation of Protection and Metering budget, price control and tender documents
• Attending regular inter departmental meetings for troubleshooting, shut down and commissioning
• Ensuring 100% availability of spare devices, testing equipment s, relevant documents and testing reports
• Supporting and implementation of new protection and metering policy and procedures
• Coordination with the system studies unit in study of any expansion of the protection and metering system of the company
• Supporting Technicians to carry out all maintenance in accordance with the annual maintenance schedule and procedures
• Supporting the Technicians to operate safely
• Testing and commissioning of all Protection devices, Meters and New Grid stations
• Coordination for Engineering and Design of new projects
• Providing advice for the selection of new equipment for new projects
• Supervise the Subcontractors to ensure all safety rules
• Ensuring all Protection policies, procedures and work-related tasks are carried out correctly
• Sharing skills and experience with colleagues and supporting the development of others through coaching where possible
• Implementing and following department protection SOPs.