Principal Electrical Engineer (PSA)

Title:

Overall Summary

Principal Electrical Engineer – with a minimum of 12+ years of progressive experience in developing, reviewing, and coordinating substation automation, protection, control, monitoring, and communication requirements for Saudi Aramco projects in the Oil & Gas, hydrocarbon, and Infrastructure industries.  Demonstrated leadership of a medium team of electrical engineers and designers and experience in Conceptual, FEED, and detailed engineering of medium to large scale projects required.

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 specification, 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.
• Responsible for design integrity of electrical scope, performance of assigned staff, on-schedule delivery of the work within budget
• Lead technical presentations to Clients and their representatives as required

 Key Interactions:

• Other disciplines activities
• Vendors (technical)
• Interact with the project Management
• Clients representatives

Qualifications & Years of Experience:

Minimum Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, and a minimum of 12+ years in Oil & Gas industry, 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 IEEE, NFPA, API, IEC, ANSI/NEMA.
• Wide knowledge in Electrical Power Systems, Protection Philosophy & Protection Device Coordination.
• Knowledge of Saudi Aramco, SABIC Standards and procedures will be an added advantage.