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Woodward is a multinational company with leading edge technology, headquartered in Fort Collins, CO. We are an independent designer, manufacturer, and service provider of energy control and optimization solutions for commercial and military aircraft, industrial gas turbines, reciprocating engines, and electrical power system equipment. Global customers in the aerospace, power and process industries, and transportation markets rely on Woodwardtechnology to make their equipment more efficient and reliable minimizing environmental impact.
In our facility in Niepołomice we are desigining, manufacturing and testing gas turbine valves and associated fuel control products.
Join our Power Solutions as a Protection Application Engineer.
POSITION DESCRIPTION:
Woodward Power Solutions is focused on sales, design, production and servicing of electrical equipment for power generation plants. This includes control, protection and visualization systems for all prime movers, power generation systems and power distributing systems.
DUTIES:
- Protection studies for Power Generation Plants, mainly supplied by MV generators driven by large engines or turbines.
- Dimensioning study (max. short-circuit current calculation and load flow calculation) in order to verify the switchgear and cable design
- Protection study (min. short-circuit current calculation) in order to verify the protection relay settings and protection coordination.
- Calculations to be performed by PowerFactory a leading power system analysis software tool; among other modules the following modules are needed: short-circuit analysis, load flow analysis and MV/LV network analysis.
- Settings of Woodward's HighPROTEC protection relays using SmartView; settings of 3rd party protection relays using the related tools.
- Validation of Protection Settings via Omicron test equipment.
- Technical clarification with internal and external customers as well as with other relevant parties (e.g. to get all needed data and to define operation conditions to be considered).
- Additional protection study tasks
- Fault Event Studies
- Development, modification and implementation of dynamic models by means of PowerFactory
- Project Engineering of Control & Protection cabinets
- Bachelor/Master degree as an electrical engineer specialized in energy / power generation technology; further orientation towards protection engineering is desirable.
- 1 - 4 years of professional experience in network and protection studies.
- Professional knowledge of network studies, i.e. dimensioning studies and protection studies.
- Solid experience with PowerFactory or an equivalent power system analysis software expected.
- Good knowledge of modeling with PowerFactory resp. Matlab/Simulink; this includes knowledge about model development processes and methods as well as knowledge about the network elements of a power generation plant themselves and the related model algorithms.
- Experience with protection setting verification by means of Omicron or equivalent tool required.
- Very good English
- Capacity for teamwork is an important requirement.
- Stable employment within a growing and dynamic team
- Advancement opportunities in international team
- Competitive base pay
- A total rewards package, that includes: private health insurance, life & accidental insurance, foreign languages courses, Multisport package
- Company performance bonus program
- Work-life balance, semi-flexible working time
- Employee – friendly renumeration structrure based on creative works (available for selected positions)
Woodward offers competitive pay, a total rewards package, opportunity for advancement, training and development. For more information, visit our website at www.woodward.com.