Regional Service Manager - Western Canada

Hitachi Energy Ltd.; Kelowna; Hybrid; CAD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and retirement benefits

Flexible work arrangements

Career development programs

paid leave

Job summary

Hitachi Energy Ltd. seeks a Regional Service Manager for Western Canada to lead the regional service organization, ensuring safe, efficient, and profitable execution of service activities across Western Canada.

You will grow operational capabilities, develop the workforce, and collaborate with Canadian and North American teams to align customer commitments with execution while upholding safety and quality standards.

Qualifications

• Experience managing service operations, customer relationships, and service execution activities.
• Experience developing organizational capabilities, workforce planning, and team development.
• Proven ability to collaborate across matrix organizations and work effectively with multiple stakeholders.
• Strong communication and relationship-building skills with customers and internal teams.

Responsibilities

• Manage the regional service organization to support safe, efficient, and profitable execution of service activities.
• Grow the operational capabilities, workforce, and infrastructure required to support business growth.
• Ensure appropriate staffing, competency development, tools, and processes are in place to meet current and future customer requirements.
• Support operational excellence through continuous improvement initiatives focused on quality, productivity, responsiveness, and customer satisfaction.
• Collaborate with service, engineering, project management, Business Units, and North American service teams to support successful execution of customer commitments.
• Build and maintain relationships with key customers and support strategic discussions regarding service execution, capabilities, and future requirements.
• Responsible to ensure compliance with applicable external and internal regulations, procedures, and guidelines.

Skills

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Operational management

Customer relationship management

Job description

Regional Service Manager - Western Canada

The Regional Manager, West is responsible for the operational management, customer engagement, and execution of the Substation Service business across Western Canada. Working closely with the Regional Service Sales Manager, you will help ensure the organization has the capabilities, resources, processes, and customer focus required to support the continued growth of the service business. This role is focused on growing service delivery capabilities, strengthening customer relationships, and supporting the operational deployment of an expanding substation service portfolio. You will collaborate with Canadian and North American Service teams, Business Units, and support functions to align customer commitments with operational execution while supporting safety, quality, productivity, and customer satisfaction.

How You'll Make an Impact

• Manage the regional service organization to support safe, efficient, and profitable execution of service activities.
• Grow the operational capabilities, workforce, and infrastructure required to support business growth.
• Ensure appropriate staffing, competency development, tools, and processes are in place to meet current and future customer requirements.
• Support operational excellence through continuous improvement initiatives focused on quality, productivity, responsiveness, and customer satisfaction.
• Monitor regional performance metrics and implement actions when improvements are needed.
• Build and maintain relationships with key customers and support strategic discussions regarding service execution, capabilities, and future requirements.
• Manage, coach, and develop a high-performing regional service team while fostering a culture of safety, accountability, collaboration, and customer focus.
• Collaborate with service, engineering, project management, Business Units, and North American service teams to support successful execution of customer commitments.
• Responsible to ensure compliance with applicable external and internal regulations, procedures, and guidelines.

Your Background

• Candidate must already have work authorization that would permit them to work for Hitachi Energy in Canada.
• Experience managing service operations, customer relationships, and service execution activities.
• Experience developing organizational capabilities, workforce planning, and team development.
• Proven ability to collaborate across matrix organizations and work effectively with multiple stakeholders.
• Strong communication and relationship-building skills with customers and internal teams.

More About Us

At Hitachi Energy, you'll have the opportunity to grow your career while contributing to meaningful work alongside experienced professionals.

• Opportunities to work on innovative technologies shaping the future of energy.
• A collaborative environment with experienced professionals across diverse teams.
• Access to learning platforms and career development programs that support continuous growth.
• Attractive health and retirement benefits.
• Paid leave and flexible work arrangements that support work-life balance.

In compliance with British Columbia’s Pay Transparency requirements, the expected compensation for this role is:

Location Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada;
Calgary, Alberta, Canada;
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada;
Richmond, British Columbia, Canada

Job type Full time

Work arrangement Hybrid

Experience Senior Management

Job function Engineering & Science

Contract Regular

About Hitachi Energy

We are a global leader in electrification, powering the electricity era to meet the energy demands of today, and the next 25 years. As the energy arm of Hitachi Group, over three billion people depend on our pioneering, mission-critical technologies to power their daily lives.

With over a century of innovation, we are addressing the most urgent energy challenge of our time: driving the evolution of the world’s energy system to ensure abundant, secure, affordable, and sustainable power for today’s generation and the next.

With an unparalleled installed base in over 140 countries, we are the grid ecosystem partner across the utility, industry, data center, and transportation sectors. Headquartered in Switzerland, we employ over 56,000 people in 60 countries and generate revenues of around $20 billion USD.