Paul Nidras Email & Phone Number

Deer Park, VIC, AU

Melbourne, Australia

• Writing up scope of works for relay replacement projects
• Calculating and documenting protection settings for new installations
• Undertaking periodic system reviews to ensure correct operation of protection systems
• Developing application specific manuals, relay configurations and standard schematics for new protection systems
• Testing new protection systems and writing up test procedures for field personnel to carry out upon commissioning
• Undertaking investigations of major system faults. Documenting root cause and providing recommendations to mitigate future faults

• Tasks undertaken in my 2nd graduate rotation as a Network Development Engineer at Powercor:
• Determining Distribution Loss Factors for business
• Interpreting the National Energy Rules, Distribution Code
• Demand Management
• Embedded Generation, trial of Solar & Battery System on SWER lines
• Undertaking System Power Quality Studies

• Tasks undertaken in my 1st graduate rotation as a Design Engineer at Powercor:
• Gathering data from field visits and from in-house, archival software systems so that line/circuit design can be performed
• Referring to Powercor, and other technical, standards and making judgements on suitability for particular field applications.
• Performing design calculations required to ensure correct construction of overhead lines and poles
• Creating estimates for new projects
• Preparing work instructions, and assembling and issuing work files to downstream field construction crews.