Product Design Engineering Team Leader

The opportunity

Hitachi Energy is currently looking for an Engineering Team Leader for the Power Transformers Business to join their team in Global Engineering Center in Vadodara, India. This team seeks a skilled and motivated individual.

Transformers BU team leverages innovative and diverse technology to transform energy, delivering social, environmental, and economic value and enabling a sustainable energy future for current and future generations. The business’s comprehensive portfolio includes power transformers, traction transformers, insulation and components, digital sensors, and transformer services.

How You’ll Make An Impact

• Ensure design and engineering activities without errors and on-time delivery in accordance with customer specifications / host factory needs while maintaining KPIs agreed with factory.
• Ensure effective communication for team with host factory in terms of understanding the needs, design review meeting, urgency of task, resolving QN’s, fast response.
• Recognize and reinforce the performance of team members by identifying and encouraging the improvements by development plan.
• Responsible to generate/review active part and windings/ Tank & Externals meeting factory limitation, guideline, and checklist as per IEEE standards.
• Support for development of engineering team members and defining career paths. Coaching the team in a constructive way that strengthens the competency level, communication and reinforces desired results and behaviors.
• Monitor and review design documents prepared by the team and execution of design deliverables.
• Identify methods to avoid cost over-runs and areas to maximize cost-saving while preparing design and implement.
• Coordinate with factory designers who conduct joint inspections with the Manufacturing and Testing departments. Support troubleshooting of issues at vendor-end and at workshop.
• Evaluate priority and severity of manufacturing or quality errors and in coordination with the host factory, assign to the team for corrective measures.
• Managing and addressing risks associated with gaps in the team’s technical competence level.
• Motivate the team as all are remotely working for the host factory. Retention of employees.
• Ensure design and engineering activities without errors and on-time delivery in accordance with customers.
• Living Hitachi Energy’s core values of safety and integrity, which means taking responsibility for your own actions while caring for your colleagues and the business.
• Responsible to ensure compliance with applicable external and internal regulations, procedures, and guidelines.
  
  

Your background

• B.E. (Mechanical/Electrical)
• 12 years’ experience in Trafo design, mainly on power transformer design.
• 3 years of team management experience.
• Experience of working for North America market IEEE standard & Europe and Asian market IEC standard.
• Previous experience in dealing with host factory tasks like GEC set up will give added advantages.
• Sound understanding and hands-on for engineering budgets.
• Substantial experience in working with a cross-functional team.
• Understanding and experience on driving DtV projects.
• Thorough knowledge of design systems, tools and processes being used in Design of Power Transformers.
• Soft skill in collaboration, effective communication & fast response as working remotely on engineering task for host factory.
• Innovative & Proactive: always looks on continuous improvement related to deliverables, process, and readiness for future
  
  

Hitachi Energy is a global technology leader in electrification, powering a sustainable energy future through innovative power grid technologies with digital at the core. Over three billion people depend on our technologies to power their daily lives.

With over a century in pioneering mission-critical technologies like high-voltage, transformers, automation, and power electronics, we are addressing the most urgent energy challenge of our time – balancing soaring electricity demand, while decarbonizing the power system.

Headquartered in Switzerland, we employ over 50,000 people in 60 countries and generate revenues of around $16 billion USD. We welcome you to apply today.