Senior HVDC Project Lead – Plants & Civil

Hitachi, Ltd.; Glasgow; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Hitachi, Ltd. seeks an experienced Senior Project Engineer to provide technical leadership and delivery accountability across complex HVDC projects. You will coordinate across Plant, Civil, Auxiliary and related disciplines to ensure alignment with safety, quality, and commercial goals.

You will guide engineering teams, manage interfaces, and contribute to tendering and project development, delivering on schedule and budget with a strong customer focus.

Qualifications

• Degree in an engineering discipline with significant project engineering experience.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary teams on HVDC, power or major infrastructure projects.
• Ability to lead activities and manage interfaces, scope, risk and change.
• Strong understanding of governance, design assurance and compliant solutions.
• Excellent communication across teams, management, customers and suppliers.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic leadership and accountability for multidisciplinary Plants & Civil engineering delivery across HVDC converter station projects.
• Define and lead execution strategies across Plant Design, Auxiliary Power Systems, Electromechanical, Civil and Structural Engineering.
• Own delivery performance across scope, programme, budget, resources, risk and change.
• Drive effective cross-discipline integration and interface management.
• Build strong relationships with customers, project leadership, construction teams, suppliers and partners.
• Provide clear oversight of engineering performance, key risks, commercial impacts and delivery priorities.
• Lead critical technical and contractual interfaces.
• Provide strategic engineering input to tendering and project development, including execution strategy, resource planning, schedules, cost estimates and risk assessments.

Skills

Coordination

Leadership

Governance

Technical judgement

Stakeholder management

Interface management

HVDC domain

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Job description

Hitachi, Ltd. seeks an experienced Senior Project Engineer to provide technical leadership and delivery accountability across complex HVDC projects. You will coordinate across Plant, Civil, Auxiliary and related disciplines to ensure alignment with safety, quality, and commercial goals.

You will guide engineering teams, manage interfaces, and contribute to tendering and project development, delivering on schedule and budget with a strong customer focus.