Associate Project Engineer - Primary Engineering

Hitachi Energy; Chennai District; On-site; INR 600,000 - 1,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Hitachi Energy India Operations Center (INOPC) seeks a tendering/design engineer for GIS projects. You will support Sales Tendering engineers to prepare engineering documents, drawings, and BOM calculations for GIS above 66kV, ensuring right cost estimation and timely customer submissions.

You will work as part of the GIS Primary Offer Engineering team, interact with colleagues across substations, mechanical, and project management, and contribute to DtV optimized solutions while maintaining

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in EEE or Mechanical Engineering.
• 1–5 years of tendering or design experience in LV/MV/HV/EHV.
• Good knowledge of substations.
• CAD tools proficiency in AutoCAD and Creo.
• English communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Prepare drawings and documents for GIS tender submissions.
• Develop GIS layouts, SLDs, cable tray and earthing layouts.
• Calculate system resistance, thermal loss, gas volume, and BOM.
• Estimate costs based on BOM and coordinate with Sales Support.
• Ensure quality processes and regulatory compliance.

Skills

Communication

Team player

Design-to-Value

Education

Bachelor's degree in EEE/Mechanical Engineering

Tools

AutoCAD

Creo

Job description

The opportunity

The Hitachi Energy Indian Operations Center (INOPC) is a competence center with around 3600+ skilled engineers who focus on tendering, engineering, planning, procurement, project Management, functional system testing, installation supervision, documentation and commissioning.

Your responsibility

• You will be a part of the GIS Primary Offer Engineering team.
• You will be supporting the Sales Tendering engineers to develop Tender specific engineering documents and drawings for calculating right cost and drawings submission to customer as part of offer documentation.
• This role complete involved in Primary Engineering of Gas Insulated Switchgears (GIS) of transmission and sub-transmission systems.
• You will be an individual contributor who would deliver the tasks as per the given inputs and when required need to work in coordination with other colleagues and should exhibit good collaborative skills to complete the task.
• You may also interact with other departments like Secondary engineering, Steel structure engineering, Project Management and Production units.
• Preparation of drawings and documents for customer submission for Gas Insulated Switchgear above 66kV.
• The major deliverables are listed below, but not limited to Gas SLD, GIS Lay out, cable tray layout, earthing layout, Cabling overview and assembly overview.
• System resistance, Thermal loss, Gas volume, Earthing mat and Cable calculations
• Bill of material calculation
• Preparation of cost estimation based on the BOM generated.
• Self-review review of peers documents
• Coordinating with the other team members, Sales Support engineers Area sales Managers
• Strong in Design to value (DtV) and preparation on optimized solutions considering customer requirements.
• Directly responsible for maintaining and updating the documentation for respective projects / Tenders as per quality process.
• Responsible to ensure compliance with applicable external and internal regulations, procedures, and guidelines.
• Living Hitachi Energys core values of safety and integrity, which means taking responsibility for your own actions while caring for your colleagues and the business.

Your background

• Bachelors degree in EEE / Mechanical Engineering.
• 1-5 years of experience in tendering or design of LV, MV, HV or EHV products
• Good knowledge about substations
• Good knowledge in CAD tools (AutoCad, Creo/Equivalent)
• Familiarity with standards like IEC, IEEE, ANSI etc will be an added advantage
• Team player and able to handle sales targets and prepare solutions on time.
• Excellent communication skills in English