Business R&D Senior Professional

Overview

Business R&D Senior Professional role at Hitachi Energy India Development Centre in Chennai, focused on research and development of control philosophy, implementation and validation of control and protection logic for power quality and FACTS solutions.

What you'll do

• Research and develop the control philosophy for new and evolving technologies, or improve the control performance of existing technologies in the power quality domain.
• Implement, verify and validate developed control and protection logic in the MACH control system, creating a rigorously tested, stable baseline solution that can later be tailored to customer requirements.
• Perform simulation of control logics and verification in a software-in-loop environment with tools including but not limited to MATLAB scripts, MATLAB Simulink and PSCAD.
• Perform validation testing of the whole FACTS system in a hardware-in-loop environment with real time digital simulator setup (for example, RTDS interfaced with MACH system).
• Travel to sites to support R&D activities or troubleshoot ongoing FACTS projects.
• Be responsible for assigned deliverables in terms of quality and on-time delivery, and proactively communicate progress to R&D project management, work-stream leads and other stakeholders.
• Ensure compliance with applicable external and internal regulations, procedures and guidelines.
• Live Hitachi Energy's core values of safety and integrity.

What you'll need

• Required: ME in Power Systems or ME in Power Electronics, with 0-3 years of experience.
• Strong understanding of power system concepts, including performing power system studies such as load flow, short circuit, transient stability and switching transients for utility or industrial systems.
• Good understanding of control design concepts for various controllers and power electronics application in power systems (HV/EHV levels).
• Good knowledge of power systems equipment and its purpose, such as power transformers, capacitors, reactors, instrument transformers and measuring equipment, circuit breakers, disconnectors and surge arresters.

Nice to have

• Experience or expertise in understanding or modelling voltage sourced converters (VSC) for HVDC and FACTS.
• Experience with simulation tools such as EMTDC / PSCAD, PSS/E, RTDS and MATLAB.

Details

• Location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
• Employment type: Full time.
• Travel to sites is required for R&D activities or troubleshooting.