System Performance Engineer - HVDC System Design

Location:

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Job ID:

R0054144

Date Posted:

2024-06-19

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 1500 skilled engineers who focus on tendering, engineering, planning, procurement, functional system testing, installation supervision and commissioning. However, over the last decade, it has evolved to become the largest engineering hub. The India Operations Centre is a key aspect of the Power Grids business Power Up transformation program. The INOPC team at Chennai supports Hitachi Energy’s units in more than 40 countries across a wide portfolio of all the four business units in Power Grid business. To date, the team has executed engineering and commissioning for projects in more than 80 countries. You will be part of HVDC (High Voltage Direct Current), a business unit within Hitachi Energy, Indian Operation Center located in Chennai. The unit develops, manufactures and sells DC transmission systems on a global market. The HVDC technology is used to transmit electricity over long distances and for power transmission via submarine cables. HVDC is also used to connect power systems.

Mission Statement:

In this role you will 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 .

Your responsibilities:

• To successfully take on this position, you need to be thorough and structured with a high technical interest and strive for good solutions within the set time limits. You will be involved in projects, tenders, base work.

• To grow with each task, enabling yourself to develop and take more and more responsibility. HVDC is a complex product, there is always more to learn.

• Model and study the stability of HVDC system through simulations in PSCAD/EMTDC, PSSE, Power Factory and design the controllers.

• Handle the interface with other interfacing departments. Ensuring you understand their needs, and they yours, and to work for a good corporation for best end results together.

• Living Hitachi Energy core values of safety and integrity, which means taking responsibility for your own actions while caring for your colleagues and the business.

Your background:

• B. Tech/ B.E. (Electrical) with 5 years / Masters or Phd in Power System with 3 years of experience from a reputed university.

• Extensive knowledge of Power Systems studies and modelling of electrical network.

• Understanding and Knowedlge of Electrical Power Systems and Controls

• Knowledge on IEC/IEEE standards is highly preferred.

• Understanding application of Power Electronics in HV/EHV system like HVDC and FACTS is highly preferred.

• Proven skills in using computers as a calculation tool.

• Experience of power system simulation tools such as PSSE, EMTDC /PSCAD and calculations in Matlab / Mathcad.

• Extensive knowledge of Power Systems equipment and their purpose, such as Power Transformers, Capacitors, Reactors, Instrument Transformer and measuring equipment, Circuit Breakers, Disconnector, Surge Arrester etc.

• Knowledge in selection, sizing and integration of above equipment based on customer functional specification. .