R&D Engineer

Business Information:

The Hitachi Energy Indian Operations Center (INOPC) is a competence center with around 2600+ skilled engineers who focus on tendering, engineering, planning, procurement, project Management, functional system testing, installation supervision, documentation and commissioning.

Hitachi Energy is a world leader in the area of Power Quality Solutions (PQS). Hitachi Energy was the first to introduce Flexible AC Transmission System (FACTS) technology to the power industry and has delivered solutions for the more than 50 years now. Hitachi energy has a number of solutions that enhance the security, capacity and flexibility of power transmission systems. These solutions enable power grid owners to increase existing transmission network capacity while maintaining or improving the operating margins necessary for grid stability.  Hitachi Energy has the full FACTS portfolio and in-house manufacturing of key components. Our PQS R&D group in Chennai is focusing on developing and evaluating functionalities for STATCOM, STATIC VAR Compensator (SVC), Series Compensator and Synchronous Condensers for utilities and industries.

Mission Statement:

The aim is to provide a comprehensive and robust base solution that can, with minimum effort, be customized to suite specific client requirement. The system being continuously evolving, becoming more complex and customized, great deal of test & verification are required.

Your responsibilities:

•  Design and implementation, verification, and commissioning of the MACH control system to meet our customer’s requirements.  

• Responsible for design, time schedule, budget, and quality of deliverables during the entire project execution process for control scope 

• Extensive contact with other engineering groups, the project manager, local ABB offices and externally to our customer during factory acceptance and commissioning phase. 

• Ready for travel to sites to support commissioning of MACH system.

• Control logics design and testing 

• Simulation of control logics and algorithms in PSCAD/Matlab environment 

• Pre-studies of new and evolving technologies in power quality 

• Hardware Integration, interfacing with RTDS.

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

Your background:

• ME Power Systems / ME Power Electronics.

• You should have 3+ years of experience in modelling of voltage sourced converters (VSC) for HVDC, FACTS or drives.

• You should have experience in simulation tools such as EMTDC / PSCAD, PSS/E, RTDS and calculations in Matlab. 

• Understanding application of Power Electronics in HV/EHV system 

• Hands on experience in performing power system studies like load flow, short circuit, transient stability 

• and switching transients for utility / industrial. systems. 

• Good knowledge of Power Systems equipment and their purpose. Example, Power Transformers, Capacitors, Reactors, Instrument Transformer and measuring equipment, Circuit Breakers, Disconnectors and Surge Arrestors 

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