Department: Connections

Status: 37.5 hours per week, Permanent.

Location: Kochi or Remote from anywhere in India

Job Summary

We are searching for a Senior Consultant with Protection Coordination Studies experience to join us at an exciting stage of our growth in India. This is a fantastic prospect to contribute to impactful consultancy work, help shape client outcomes, and play an important part in the continued development of our services. In this role, you will have the chance to undertake meaningful work, collaborate with talented specialists, and make a genuine contribution to TNEI's mission in the energy transition. Whether you are looking to step up into your next level of responsibility, develop your technical or consultancy skills, gain more exposure to client-facing work, or broaden your project portfolio, this role offers significant scope for growth. At TNEI, you will be supported to shape a career pathway that fits your goals while contributing to high-impact projects.

Key Duties Responsibilities

- Undertake protection coordination studies and determine unit protection relay settings for equipment, including transformers, reactors, generators, transmission lines, and cables etc.
- Perform protection design reviews and provide technical advice during project development and detailed design stages.
- Review protection philosophies, protection settings reports, and technical documentation. Ensure quality assurance and compliance with relevant industry standards, regulations, and company procedures.
- Support proposals, technical bids and teamwide business development activities.
- Mentor and train junior consultants and collaborate across power systems, EMT, earthing, and grid compliance teams.
- Be pro-active in collaborating with the UK team on project or proposal work.

Requirements

Essential requirements include:




- Degree qualified in Electrical Engineering or a related discipline with 5+ years of experience in the power systems field.
- Minimum of 2 years of experience delivering protection engineering consultancy services for transmission, distribution, renewable generation, and/or industrial power systems.
- Strong understanding of protection principles for HV, EHV, and MV electrical networks and extensive experience in protection coordination and relay settings studies.
- Knowledge of protection logic diagrams and experience developing relay setting schedules using software such as MiCOM Agile, PCM600, and SEL AcSELerator.
- Good understanding of relevant industry standards and requirements and experience using industry standard protection and power system software
- Ability to analyse fault performance and assess protection system behaviour under various network operating conditions.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Ability to manage personal workload and deliver projects to agreed timescales and quality standards.

Desirable requirements

- Postgraduate degree in Electrical Power Engineering.
- Experience of transmission-connected renewable generation projects.
- Experience performing earthing design and safety assessments using CDEGS or equivalent software.
- Experience carrying out electromagnetic interference (EMI), induction, or electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) studies.
- Knowledge and practical experience of electromagnetic transient (EMT) studies using PSCAD, EMTP-RV, ATP, or similar software.
- Familiarity with protection requirements associated with HVDC, FACTS, and converter-based resources.
- Capability in Python, DPL, VBA, or other engineering automation tools.

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📌 Sr Consultant (Protection Co-Ordination Studies) (Kochi)
🏢 TNEI Services
📍 Kochi