Associate Project engineer

The opportunity

Design authority for an engineering discipline with low to medium complexity. Complete assignments on small projects or portions of larger projects, cost-effectively and in accordance with contract specifications, quality standards and safety requirements. Based on technical specification from end customers and inputs from OU Engineering team, prepare Protection & Principle SLD, Schematics, Equipment layouts – Plan & sections, to support R & D actives, Bill of materials, RFQs, vetting of vendor offers, engg hours estimation, technical risk assessment and opportunity evaluation etc.

How you'll make an impact

• Design authority for all engineering activities for assignments on projects classified as Low and Medium engineering complexity. Support Project Manager for any technical issues.
• SPOC with customers for Engineering activities of the project. Participate in customer meetings, act on customer needs, expectations and improve customer experience.
• To coordinate engineering project team : scope, schedule & progress, approvals, budget, targets, resource load & cost-to-complete [Engineering Meetings / Review]. Ensure Engineering processes are applied and if needed agree on scaling with the Engineering Manager.
• Conduct Engineering Project Reviews and report progress and cost-to-complete to Engineering and Project Manager.
• Establish contacts with suppliers for the project and provide technical support as required. Ensure the deliveries as per schedule and carry out regular reviews.
• Having Primary design expertise and being able to deliver Fleet and Flash sector projects. Focus on continuous improvements both technically and functionally.
• Check if the quality process is applied by all contributing engineering parties and escalate to QA / QC.
• 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.
• Identify, track, clarify & drive projects change cases that relate to engineering scope. Initiate and drive corrective actions.
• Collect and consolidate project risks and opportunities from the engineering team, technical, but also related to engineering progress, information / data availability and assumptions taken.
• Define, coordinate & take proactive actions to mitigate risks and lead to opportunities. Take calculated risk in pursuit of results and speed.
• Prepare, review and validate Bill of material for tenders or projects based on requirement. Providing Optimized and Customized solutions for various eMobility tenders (Indoor / Outdoor etc.,)
• 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.
• Vendor Offer Evaluations. FAT / SAT of Primary Equipment, System as and when needed. Technical risk and opportunity assessment and validation.
• Responsible to ensure compliance with applicable external and internal regulations, procedures, and guidelines.
• 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

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.

Skills Required

Electrical Engineering