Protection & Control Design Engineer

Location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India Job ID: R0146605 Date Posted: 2026-09-29 Company Name: HITACHI ENERGY TECHNOLOGY SERVICES PRIVATE LIMITED Profession (Job Category): Engineering & Science Job Schedule:  Full time Remote: No Job Description: Business Information: 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. Mission Statement: Design authority for an engineering discipline with low to medium complexity. Complete assignments on small projects or portions of larger projects, cost-effectively and in accordance with contract specifications, quality standards and safety requirements. Based on technical specification from end customers and inputs from OU Engineering team, prepare Protection principle SLD, Schematics substation layouts, sections, Bill of materials, RFQs, vetting of vendor offers, engg hours estimation, visit to project sites, technical risk assessment and opportunity evaluation etc Coordinate with Engineering Leads, Tendering team, Project managers, SCM, Secondary and civil / steel design functions, consultants, end customers etc. and provide required support in each Project / Tender. Your responsibilities Able to perform the following activities: Preparation of Base Design documents like Protection block diagram, Interlocks Diagram, System overview diagram, Bill of material Document, Pre cable list, Heat dissipation calculations. Preparation of Protection schematics for Feeder, Transformer, Busbar, Bus Section, Bus coupler, capacitor bank, Reactor. Preparation of Control Schematics with BCUs and Mimics for various bus systems. Preparation of design intent document analyzing scope of work, technical guidelines and Customer specifications and applying in schematics Preparation of Cubicle Schematics for Metering, General control, RTU, SCADA, Telecom system. Preparation of manufacturing documents (Assembly, Layouts, Labels, Apparatus) for Cubicle and Boxes production. Preparation of Interface drawing by referring HV equipment’s, Marshalling boxes, CT, VT and other station devices AC and DC Distribution boards e.t.c Preparation of IED configurations for various protection applications like Distance, Differential, Overcurrent, auto reclose, synchro check e.t.c Preparation for pre cable list and cable interconnection schedule with proper cable routing. Review and validation of above-mentioned documents against checklist and ISO standards Preparation of Project budget for this scope of work and delegation plan if working in team for larger scope of work. Preparation of various types of reports during project execution according to customer expectations and easy operation. Preparation of Test Procedures for IED testing and Cubicle testing for FAT and SAT activities.