Engineering Manager - Grid Integration

Description

Hitachi Energy's Grid & Power Quality Solutions and Service global product group is a world-leading provider of grid connections and power quality solutions that enable our customers to build a more sustainable, flexible and secure energy system. We leverage our long-standing technology leadership, vast integration expertise, huge installed base and global footprint to provide our customers with life-cycle value solutions at the lowest risk. Our customers are in the utility, renewables, industry, transportation, data centers and infrastructure sectors.

Our business in Europe has more than 1,000 skilled professionals focused on critical areas of expertise and is present in 16 countries.

At Grid & Power Quality Solutions and Service business in Europe (HBU EU), diversity drives our culture of innovation and collaboration. Our leading technology and strong market position enable us to achieve growth targets in the energy transition across current and growing market segments such as hydrogen, data centers and e-mobility.

Join Our Team!

The quality and innovation of the engineering in our products, systems and service offerings keeps our customers ahead. Developing solutions for our customers all over the world and working on our market-leading technologies will challenge and enrich your work and your mind.

You will lead the Engineering team within Hitachi Energy Grid Integration. Reporting to the Operating Unit manager, you will drive team performance to ensure that safety, integrity, financial and contractual requirements are met, and customer expectations are exceeded.

Your responsibilities:

• Lead engineering teams which are responsible for the engineering domains: Primary, Secondary, Steel and Civil Engineering of HV/MV Substations and ensure delivery of a portfolio of projects on time, in full scope; provide direction to the teams with a focus on safety, on time delivery, quality and budget / margin improvement. Establish and maintain Engineering support setups with internal Operation Centers.

• Build and maintain customer relationships, seek feedback and provide innovative solutions to meet customer requirements and deliver improvements; provide engineering support during the bid phase, support presentation of proposals to customers. Work with Sales Bid and Proposal to target new opportunities, present new technologies and innovations at conferences, client events.

• Oversee contractual work and role of the engineering in both tendering and project execution in order to act in a proactive way when it comes to managing contract deviations; conduct regular design & progress and budget/cost reviews, identify and manage contractual risks and opportunities.

• Ensure that Project Teams are adequately resourced, developed and equipped to meet business needs, including support to Tender Team.

• Contribute to plans creation for tenders and projects to ensure that technical risks are identified and managed, opportunities maximized. Ensure that contracts are well known, required systems are understood, developed and correctly implemented.

• Collaborate with the Procurement & Logistics team to ensure that correct suppliers, services and equipment are available to support the Engineering function.

• Facilitate best practice sharing within the engineering team and develop competencies and skills across the team to meet present and future demand; ensure that the area of responsibility is properly organized, staffed, skilled, directed and continuous people portfolio development is in place. Guide, motivate, coach and develop employees reporting directly and indirectly, within HR policies.

• Implement, develop and improve valid engineering processes based on the HUB EU and global PG Engineering instructions (e.g. LOM Engineering), continuously identify and reflect gaps, and derive mitigation activities to improve effectiveness across the engineering function and to enable exchange of resources within Europe Hub Business Unit. Develop a vital network in the Engineering Management Team of the Europe Hub Business Unit. Initiate and drive continuous improvement activities.

• Support financial plans creation and budget estimation for running tenders, projects and own cost center. Regularly review actual cost development, identify and initiate mitigation measures in case of budget gaps. Understand and apply entrepreneurial thinking for tenders, projects and local unit.

• Live core values of safety and integrity, which means taking responsibility for your own actions while caring for your colleagues and the business.

Your background:

• University degree in Engineering (electrical engineering highly preferred)

• 5 to 10 years’ experience as Lead project engineer, previous Engineering Manager experience is a plus.

• Knowledge of substation technology for AIS, GIS and Hybrid Technology Switchgear. Understanding of the Engineering tasks in Primary, Secondary, Steel and Civil Engineering and related authority permission regulations; expert knowledge in Substations, and construction and site related activities

• Multifunctional experience with handling plant/system projects beyond pure engineering tasks; experience in dealing with engineering project delivery and Industrial/Power sector and multinational environment

• Attitude in leading & motivating a team with a focus on policy, capability, effectivity and people development

• Broad knowledge of theories, tools and practices in engineering, project & change management. Basic understanding of contract management

• Demonstrated leadership capabilities, with a collaborative, solutions-oriented approach and strong communication skills.

• Good communicator with good Italian and English skills both orally (fluent in discussions) and in writing