Project Manager: Electrification & Energy Solutions

Hitachi; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 42,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

HITACHI EUROPE LTD. in London is seeking a project manager to join the Operations Team, supporting deployments, bids, site activity, and service improvements. The role requires a practical, curious mindset with a technical background and comfort working across cross-functional teams.

The position offers a hybrid work model with office presence at London and opportunities to work with hardware, software, and service delivery across Hitachi Energy teams.

Qualifications

• Interest in project delivery, operations, technology, engineering, energy, transport or sustainability.
• A technical mindset: able to understand systems, ask thoughtful questions and translate complexity into clear actions.
• Confident communicator across customers, technical experts and commercial colleagues.
• A practical, organised approach to actions, risks, dependencies, evidence and follow-up.
• Curiosity to learn across software, infrastructure, customer operations and service performance.
• Willingness to get involved in varied work rather than staying in a narrow lane.
• Confidence using Microsoft 365 tools, with interest in using Copilot, AI tools or automation to improve quality and efficiency.
• Relevant degree, apprenticeship, placement year or early-career experience.
• Project, customer delivery, systems or engineering experience helpful; potential and attitude matter.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate plans, actions, site readiness, customer packs, handovers and lessons learned.
• Support site activity with technical, electrical and service specialists, keeping actions, evidence and follow-up clear.
• Prepare bid and new-scope inputs: assumptions, risks, dependencies, lessons learned and evidence.
• Build operational understanding of charging faults, service issues and customer context.
• Improve service efficiency using AI tools, templates, trackers and clearer reporting.
• Work across Programme, Service Delivery, Product, Data Science, Commercial, Sales and Hitachi Energy teams.
• Promote safe site activity through visit planning, hazard awareness and readiness checks and escalation routes.

Skills

Project management

Technical mindset

Communicator

Organised

Curiosity

Education

Relevant degree / apprenticeship / placement

Tools

Microsoft 365

Copilot

Job description

HITACHI EUROPE LTD. in London is seeking a project manager to join the Operations Team, supporting deployments, bids, site activity, and service improvements. The role requires a practical, curious mindset with a technical background and comfort working across cross-functional teams.

The position offers a hybrid work model with office presence at London and opportunities to work with hardware, software, and service delivery across Hitachi Energy teams.