Location:
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Job ID:
R0067720
Date Posted:
2025-02-20
Company Name:
HITACHI ENERGY TECHNOLOGY SERVICES PRIVATE LIMITED
Profession (Job Category):
Engineering & Science
Job Schedule:
Full time
Remote:
No
Job Description:
Business Information:
Our Indian Operations Centre (INOPC) is a competence center with around 2600+ skilled engineers who focus on tendering, engineering, planning, procurement, functional system testing, installation supervision, and commissioning. Over the last decade, INOPC has evolved to become the largest engineering hub serving more than 40 countries across different energy sectors. The team caters to the four business units—Transformers, Grid Integration, Grid Automation, High Voltage and has successfully executed engineering and commissioning for projects in more than 80 countries.
Roles and responsibilities:
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Design authority for all engineering activities for assignments on projects classified as Low and Medium engineering complexity. Support Project Manager for any technical issues.
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SPOC with customer for Engineering activities of the project. Participate in customer meetings, act on customer needs, expectations and improve customer experience.
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Lead, supervise and coordinate engineering project team: scope, schedule & progress, approvals, budget, targets, resource load & cost-to-complete [Engineering Meetings / Engineering Review]. Ensure Engineering processes are
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applied and if needed agree on scaling with Engineering Manager.
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Conduct Engineering Project Reviews and report progress and cost-to-complete to Engineering- and Project Manager
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Establishes contacts with suppliers for technical support, to improve material quality and/or to decrease costs. Technical Obtains prototype product and develops technical tests. Ensure the deliveries as per schedule and carry out regular reviews
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Having Primary / Secondary design expertise and able to deliver transmission and distribution projects and Preparing standards and focus on continuous improvements both technically and functionally
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Check if quality process is applied by all contributing engineering parties. Escalate to QA/QC.
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Track and handle technical issues and follow up. Handle clarification where more than one domain/function/party is concerned plus those topics that cannot be allocated to an engineering domain. Initiate mitigation of possible responsibility gaps in the project team.
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Coach and develop project engineers / designers to deliver their maximum potential, plan the skill development needs for the engineers
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Identify, track, clarify & drive project change cases that relate to engineering scope. Support claim preparation (client & supplier). Initiate and drive corrective actions.
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Collect and consolidate project risks and opportunities from engineering team, technical, but as well related to engineering progress, information/data availability and assumptions taken. Define, coordinate & take proactive actions to mitigate risks and lead to opportunities. Follow-up. Take calculated risk in pursuit of results and speed.
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Knowledge of primary equipment, such as circuit breakers, disconnectors, earthing switches, instrument transformers, power transformers, etc and knowledge of HV grid power systems
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Understanding of interfaces to HV and MV overhead line and cable systems
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HV & MV substation engineering understanding and experience preferred
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Good understanding of secondary design aspects of substations, such as CT VT Sizing, Cable sizing, Protection & Control schemes, LVAC / LVDC supplies, Interlocking, Telecommunication, etc is an added advantage and good understanding of civil and structural design elements of substations, such transformer bunds, cable troughs, ducts, support structures, substation access roads, etc.
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Prepare, review and validate Bill of material for tenders or projects based on requirement and know-how on design calculations related to Primary Engineering and grounding system design, drawings and Bill of Materials and lightning system design, drawings and BoM and lighting system design and BoM
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Technical data sheets verification of primary equipment. Knowledge of primary equipment, such as circuit breakers, disconnectors, earthing switches, instrument transformers, power transformers, etc
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Providing Optimized and Customized solutions for various substation tenders (AIS, GIS, Hybrid, MoSS) and use creativity wherever appropriate to provide best solutions for the given situation within the framework of tender Continuously develop standard templates and databases for tender engineering.
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Vendor Offer Evaluations. FAT / SAT of Primary Equipment, System as and when needed and technical risk and opportunity assessment and validation and estimation of engineering effort for each project for costing at tender stage
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Innovative ideas to reduce Engineering effort .
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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
Your background:
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Bachelors Engineering in Electrica 10-12 years exp
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Proficiency in required CAD design tools (Autodesk Revit, 3D competence preferred)
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Proficiency in required Engineering calculation tools
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Knowledge of relevant international standards ex. IEEE, IEC etc.
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Knowledge in substation tendering and project engineering activities (technical & commercial)
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Individual contributor using in-depth knowledge in a specific area to execute complex or specialized projects / challenges often thinking independently to challenge traditional solutions.
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Comprehensive knowledge of related disciplines in the organization.
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Works independently, applying established standards
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Excellent English speaker, good communication skills
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Dynamic and Proactive, willing to grow in the organization
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Team player, ready to play the role across the different countries
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High level of ownership and able to guide and plan works for the team
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Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.
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Attention to detail and a commitment to delivering high-quality digital solutions.
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