Transmission Engineer(T&C)
Saudi Electricity Company
Total years of experience :18 years, 0 Months
I am a Transmission Engineer in Saudi Arabia. My technical role is testing and commissioning of EHV & HV substations(380KV/230KV/115KV/132KV) for Saudi Electricity Company. Key duties performed are:
Testing and commissioning of GIS switchgear and associated protection panels
Testing and commissioning of MV switchgear and associated protection panels
Testing and commissioning of Power Transformers and associated protection panels
Testing and commissioning of SCADA and SAS systems
Middle East Trading Co.Ltd
Founder & Director of Middle East Trading CO Ltd, a small Company that served a wide base of customers. Main role:
Designed and Specified LV Distribution Boards for subcontractors and Electricians.
Budget management and financial forecast
Managed small team of draftspersons
Marketed and Exported LV Distribution Boards
oDesign and construction of Switchgear for BHP & Rio Tinto
oDesign and construction of Switchgear for the Chevron Australia-LNG Project value $200
million
Responsibilities:
Primary system design(11KV&33KV switchgear)
Secondary system design
Project management.
Liaison with stakeholders
Management of Draftspersons and Graduate
Engineers
Supervision of FAT & SAT technicians
Production of final test Certificates
Punch lists and progression reports
Test plans and ITAs
Production of maintenance manuals and
maintenance guides.
Trouble shooting/Investigations of Incidents
Supervision of Relay testings
Trouble shootings
Transformers FAT & SAT testings
Testings of HV underground cables
Rail Projects for Aurizon Ltd;
o Caboolture Substation -Project value $7 million
o Wotonga substation - Project value $8 million
o Wulkuraka substation- Project value $13million
o Taringa TSC-Project value $7 million
o Park Rd Substation -Project value $13million
Responsibilities
Construction, Design & maintenance of substations
-Periodic/predictive maintenance of substations
-Rapid response to failures/breakdowns in the networks
-Supervision and Management of Contractors
-Calculations of protection parameters for Relays
-Inspection of Civil and electrical construction
-Trouble shooting
-Progression report
-OHS briefings
-OHS site manual
Design of Remote Terminal Units (RTUs) and fault
locators
-Kingfisher software design
-RTU wiring diagrams design
-Fault locators diagrams design
Protection Design for new substations
-Protection philosophies
-Calculations of protection parameters for Relays
‘Maintenance scheduling studies’ for overhead
switches
-Daily analysis and reports for faults of the overheadlines
and overhead switches
Uninterruptable Power Supplies
- UPS specifications
-Tender Evaluation for UPS
-Contract awarding
Rail Projects for Aurizon Ltd;
o Roma St substation -Project value $15 million
o Bolingbroke substation - Project value $13 million
o Kuraby TSC - Project value $6 million
o Mindi substation -Project value $13 million
o Caboolture substation -Project value $7million
o Wotonga substation -Project value $8million
Responsibilities:
Design & Specifications for MV substations
-Produced specifications & Design for substations.
Earthing & Bonding Design
-Produced Bonding drawings for TRFs, Fences, masts and
switchgear.
Design of protection scheme
-Calculated protection parameters for relays.
- Involved in the design of protection philosophies for substations
Testing and commissioning
-Involved in factory acceptance tests of 25 KV and 50 KV
substations
-Involved in factory acceptance tests of 132KV/50KV power
transformers.
-Involved in factory acceptance tests of 50KV/25KV
autotransformers
-Involved in site acceptance tests of 50 KV and 25KV substations
Civil design
-Earth grids
-Underground conduits and cable pits
-Transformer bund walls
-Oil spell tanks design
Lighting design
-Lighting design for buildings and stabling yards & car parks
-Low Voltage design for buildings and stabling yards
Simulation softwares
-Matlab:Designed and coded one thousand lines program, the
program performed DSP analysis on harmonics
- PSS/Sincal: Load Flow analysis, harmonic analysis
-CDEGS: Earthing Design
Project Management
- Day-to-day management of two PSC projects.
-Managed all aspects of the two PSC projects from finance to
construction.
-Produced quarterly financial reports for power consumption bills worth $45 million dollars
-Research & development of Digital Reception System for
mobile TVs
-Managed an industry project for Eurovox Electronics with the
supervision of La Trobe University.
Postgraduate certificates in Power Engineering