Rail Systems Configuration & Defect Lead

Hitachi Automotive Systems Americas, Inc.; København; On-site; DKK 900,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Hitachi Rail Denmark A/S in Copenhagen seeks a Configuration & Defect Manager to design and maintain baselines, defect logs, and release traceability for installation and service approvals.

You will coordinate across Engineering, IVVQ/T&C, suppliers, and document control, owning the defect workflow and ensuring compliant change management.

Candidates should have 5–7 years in configuration management and defect tooling, strong analytical skills, and the ability to operate under release pressure.

Qualifications

• More than 5–7 years in configuration management, defect tools and release control.
• Strong knowledge of version control, release management, asset configuration and defect analytics.
• Ability to coordinate technical teams around evidence-based closure.
• Resilience during defect peaks and stressful release pressure.
• Discipline, accuracy and escalation judgement.

Responsibilities

• Define configuration and defect management processes, item structures, baselines, naming rules, severity/prioritisation model and reporting cadence.
• Maintain records for hardware, software, firmware, drawings, settings, network devices, test scripts, documents and installed assets.
• Run defect triage, ownership assignment, root-cause tracking, fix verification, retest evidence and closure Governance.
• Coordinate releases and configuration changes with Engineering, IVVQ/T&C, suppliers, Installation and Document Control.
• Report open defects, baseline status, known limitations and acceptance-impacting configuration issues.
• Apply the Hitachi Code of Conduct in role-specific decisions, including ethical escalation, anti-bribery discipline, confidentiality, data protection, fair supplier/customer conduct and transparent records.
• Maintain baselines, defect log, version control, release traceability and non-regression coordination.
• Owns configuration status accounting and defect workflow discipline.
• Can block uncontrolled releases or baseline deviations and elevate systemic defect issues.

Skills

Configuration management

Defect management

Release management

Version control

Stakeholder coordination

Job description

Hitachi Rail Denmark A/S in Copenhagen seeks a Configuration & Defect Manager to design and maintain baselines, defect logs, and release traceability for installation and service approvals.

You will coordinate across Engineering, IVVQ/T&C, suppliers, and document control, owning the defect workflow and ensuring compliant change management.

Candidates should have 5–7 years in configuration management and defect tooling, strong analytical skills, and the ability to operate under release pressure.