Station Control Engineer

Overview

As a Station Control engineer, you design and implement SCADA and protection solutions for substations and HV/MV networks. You’ll work within Ramboll Energy to deliver open and closed-loop control strategies across multidisciplinary projects, collaborating with cross-functional teams to meet high standards. You’ll influence control philosophies, protection settings, and system integration, contributing to large European infrastructure initiatives. This role blends technical depth with broad OT understanding, offering meaningful impact on sustainable energy goals.

Pay / Benefits

• ongoing development investment
• leadership principles
• inclusive culture
• foundation-owned company
• global Energy division with 2000+ experts

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement control philosophies for substations and HV/MV networks
• Specify, design and apply control and protection solutions for national and international projects
• Contribute through all project phases from concept to commissioning
• Create open/closed-loop control strategies and protection schemes
• Design SCADA architectures including hardware, protocols, and interfaces
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to deliver optimized solutions
• Model, simulate, and verify protection and control designs using PSCAD, PSSE, DIgSILENT PowerFactory and MATLAB/Simulink
• Perform FAT, SAT and on-site commissioning; participate in testing and validation
• Implement WAMS and WAMPAC systems

Key requirements

• Experience in engineering specifications for plant and station control systems for 30–400 kV with closed-loop control
• Knowledge of SCADA, SRO, and network systems; IEC 61850-based substations
• Protection philosophies, settings, and coordination for AC/DC systems
• Design and maintenance of RTUs, PLCs, and protection relays; integration with SCADA
• Experience applying standards and regulations in SCADA/ICS/DCS and networks (IEC 62443, NIS2, IEC 61508, ISO/IEC 27001, IEC 61850, IEC 60870-5-104)
• Modelling and analysis using PSCAD, PSSE, DIgSILENT PowerFactory, MATLAB/Simulink
• Testing, FAT, SAT, and commissioning experience
• Experience with WAMS/WAMPAC systems

• Collaborative mindset
• Adaptability across disciplines
• Strong problem-solving and analytical thinking
• SCADA/IGS integration and network systems
• Protection philosophy and coordination
• IEC 61850-based substation automation

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