Power Transformers Standardization Strategy Lead (f/m/d)

Hitachi Energy; Vaasa; Hybrid; EUR 55 000 - 75 000; Full time

Job summary

Join a global leader in advancing a sustainable energy future as a standardization engineer, where you will lead initiatives to enhance procurement processes and standardization strategies. This role requires collaboration with various teams and a solid engineering background. Hitachi Energy promotes innovation in a flexible, inclusive environment, making a significant impact on the energy transformation.

Benefits

Flexible working, including hybrid/remote opportunities

Strong learning and development opportunities

Competitive compensation and benefits package

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years' experience in engineering focused on standardization.
• Proven track record in developing and implementing standardization strategies.
• Strong understanding of procurement processes and material management.

Responsibilities

• Develop and drive a comprehensive standardization strategy.
• Enhance the standardization of parts by quantifying associated costs.
• Create and maintain a specification and rules library.

Skills

Collaboration

Analytical skills

Problem-solving

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering

Master’s degree (preferred)

Tools

Visual dashboards

Value Stream Mapping (VSM)

Job description

The opportunity

Join us and become a game-changer in the engineering world! Experience enriching work that makes a real difference. Your future job will be exciting as you get to collaborate with various business units, engineering teams, and supply chain departments to drive standardization practices that enhance material availability, speed up procurement processes, and leverage economies of scale in a rapidly growing market.

We are happy to pass on our knowledge and experience to you and look forward to also learning from you! We are looking forward to onboarding you as a new colleague if you are keen to tackle the next major standardization projects with us and drive innovation forward.

How You’ll Make An Impact

• Develop and drive a comprehensive standardization strategy at the GPG level, in collaboration with business units (BU) and regional HUBs.
• Ensure the strategy aligns with organizational goals and market demands.
• Enhance the standardization of parts by quantifying standardization and associated costs.
• Define criteria for standardization and criteria for new part creation in collaboration with engineering and supply chain teams.
• Develop visual dashboards for engineering metrics such as Value Stream Mapping (VSM), capacity, quality, and other metrics.
• Drive development of search tools to improve reuse of existing parts and components; drive implementation in design platforms of features related to standardization.
• Create and maintain a specification and rules library based on customer profiles to drive standardization among factories.
• Agree on which items from PLM (Windchill) to connect to design tools.
• Establish methods for quantifying, measuring, and improving standardization practices.
  
  

Your background

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering. A Master’s degree is preferred.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in engineering with a focus on standardization.
• Proven track record in developing and implementing standardization strategies.
• Strong understanding of procurement processes and material management.
• Experience with engineering dashboards and metrics.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills to work with cross-functional teams.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
  
  
  

More About Us

• You will do interesting and enriching work, as part of a dynamic, passionate, and collaborative team which is committed to innovation, continuous improvement.
• You will be stretched, encouraged, and supported to grow – we pride ourselves on providing strong learning and development opportunities.
• We offer an environment that fosters collaboration, connection, and diversity of thought.
• Our culture is one of a kind: Come as you are and bring your unique attributes, passion and drive to Hitachi Energy, contributing to making us ‘the place to be’ and to our purpose of advancing a sustainable energy future for all.
• Flexible working, including hybrid/remote working opportunities.
• A competitive compensation and benefits package.
  
  

Hitachi Energy is a global technology leader that is advancing a sustainable energy future for all. We serve customers in the utility, industry and infrastructure sectors with innovative solutions and services across the value chain. Together with customers and partners, we pioneer technologies and enable the digital transformation required to accelerate the energy transition towards a carbon-neutral future.

We employ around 45,000 people in 90 countries who each day work with purpose and use their different backgrounds to challenge the status quo. We welcome you to apply today and be part of a global team that appreciates a simple truth: Diversity + Collaboration = Great Innovation.