Inspection of electrical equipment: Ensure installation meets specifications and standards.
Pre-commissioning tests: Perform insulation resistance, continuity, polarization index, and other tests.
Commissioning: Supervise energization and verify proper functionality under normal operating conditions.
Documentation: Prepare test reports, commissioning reports, and punch lists.
Transformers: Turns ratio test, insulation resistance, winding resistance, vector group test, etc.
Switchgear & Circuit Breakers: Contact resistance, timing test, insulation test, primary/secondary injection.
Protection Relays: Functionality checks, calibration, and setting verification.
Motors and Generators: IR testing, winding resistance, surge comparison, vibration analysis.
Cables: HiPot testing, VLF testing, insulation resistance, continuity, sheath fault location.
Periodic testing: Preventive maintenance of electrical systems.
Diagnostic testing: Use of tools like thermal imaging, power quality analyzers, and earth testers.
Fault finding: Troubleshooting abnormal behaviors in electrical systems.
Failure analysis: Root cause analysis and reporting of faults and failures.
Compliance: Ensure all testing and commissioning activities follow relevant safety standards (e.g., IEC, IEEE, NEC).
Permits and clearances: Liaise with HSE teams for safe work permits and isolation procedures.
Arc flash and shock hazard analysis: Evaluate and mitigate electrical hazards.
Team leadership: Manage or coordinate with testing teams and technicians.
Client interaction: Communicate findings and recommendations to clients and stakeholders.
Liaison with other departments: Collaborate with design, installation, and QA/QC teams.
Test reports: Prepare detailed and standardized testing reports.
Commissioning documents: Create FAT (Factory Acceptance Test), SAT (Site Acceptance Test), and O&M documents.
Logbooks and records: Maintain accurate test data for audits and future maintenance.
Knowledge areas: Power systems, control circuits, protection schemes, instrumentation.
Software proficiency: ETAP, DILO, Omicron Test Universe, FlukeView, or relay test kits like Omicron, Doble, Megger.
Interpretation: Read and interpret SLDs, wiring diagrams, and OEM manuals.