Senior Testing & Validation Lead – Gas Generation Plant
- Onsite
About the role
Gas Generation Plant Testing & Validation Lead Dublin, Ireland | 60MW Gas Generation Plant
Are you an experienced MV Electrical Commissioning Engineer with strong automation and controls experience, looking for your next technical challenge?
NorthFox Technologies is growing, and we're looking for a Testing & Validation Lead – MV Electrical & Automation to join an exciting 60MW Gas Generation Plant project in Dublin!
This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced engineer who enjoys getting hands-on with complex MV electrical systems, protection relays and automation, ensuring critical power generation infrastructure operates safely, reliably and exactly as designed.
The Opportunity
You'll take a leading role in the testing, commissioning and validation of MV electrical distribution, protection and automation systems across a 60MW gas generation facility.
Working alongside commissioning teams, controls specialists, OEMs and project stakeholders, you'll be responsible for testing and validating complex MV switching sequences, electrical interlocking, SCADA integration and associated plant systems.
What will you be doing?
- Leading MV electrical commissioning, automation testing and validation activities.
- Developing and executing SAT, functional testing and integrated systems testing (IST) procedures.
- Testing MV switchgear, protection relays, electrical interlocking and switching sequences.
- Validating IEC 61850 GOOSE messaging and interlocking across MV distribution systems.
- Reviewing PLC/SCADA logic, sequences of operation (SoO), cause-and-effect and control philosophies.
- Testing interfaces between generators, MV switchgear, protection relays and SCADA systems.
- Troubleshooting electrical, protection and automation issues alongside OEMs and controls engineers.
- Managing technical defects and driving issues through to successful close-out.
Who are we looking for?
We'd love to hear from senior engineers/leads with strong experience in:
- Hands-on MV switchgear testing and commissioning, ideally 11kV–20kV systems.
- MV protection relays, electrical interlocking and switching sequences.
- IEC 61850 communications and GOOSE messaging.
- PLC, SCADA and electrical automation systems.
- Reading and interpreting SLDs, functional block diagrams (FBD), ladder logic and sequences of operation.
- Troubleshooting electrical control logic, protection interfaces and automation faults.
- SAT, functional testing, failover testing and integrated systems testing.
- Leading site commissioning activities and working directly with vendors and controls teams.
Experience with Siemens SIPROTEC protection relays, IEC 61850 GOOSE, Siemens MV switchgear, Zenon SCADA or Jenbacher generators would be particularly relevant.
Strong hands-on MV commissioning experience is essential. Experience in gas generation or power generation would be an advantage, but we're equally interested in engineers from data centres, power distribution and other mission-critical electrical infrastructure.
We're looking for someone who can get involved on site, work through technical issues and take ownership of testing and delivery.
Why NorthFox Technologies?
Join a growing specialist engineering business delivering technically challenging projects where your expertise will make a real difference.
You'll have the opportunity to work alongside experienced engineers, tackle complex MV electrical and automation challenges and play a key role in the successful delivery of critical infrastructure.
If you've got strong MV commissioning experience, understand protection and automation systems, and enjoy getting stuck into technical fault finding, we'd love to hear from you.