Associate Project Manager - DPS Quality

Hitachi ABB Power Grids; Chennai District; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 3,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Hitachi ABB Power Grids seeks a Digital Quality Transformation Lead to drive the DPS deployment across manufacturing facilities and supplier networks. You will translate business requirements into digital quality solutions, ensuring data accuracy, process adherence, and continuous improvement.

You will bridge Global Product Teams, Factory Quality teams, Suppliers, and Technology teams, run workshops, train staff, supervise supplier implementation, and ensure regulatory compliance while upholding

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Engineering with 6–8 years total experience.
• 4+ years in a similar Manufacturing role.
• Experience in requirements gathering and deployment.
• Strong leadership and cross-functional communication.

Responsibilities

• Create and update quality card requirements with Global Product Team and Factory team.
• Coordinate with software team to implement DPS requirements.
• Review DPS implementation for completeness and accuracy.
• Lead workshops and training with factories and software teams.
• Act as liaison between factory stakeholders and technology teams.
• Support the DPS supplier implementation.
• Monitor sustainability of DPS deployment at the supply base.
• Provide technical assistance to suppliers for DPS and use of the platform.
• Ensure compliance with applicable regulations and guidelines.

Skills

Requirements gathering

End-user engagement

Leadership

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor of Engineering

Job description

Join a key digital quality transformation initiative focused on enhancing product traceability, quality compliance, and operational excellence across manufacturing facilities and supplier networks. In this role, you will act as the bridge between Global Product Teams, Factory Quality teams, Suppliers, and Technology teams to drive the successful implementation and adoption of Digital Passport System (DPS) solutions. You will be responsible for translating business requirements into digital quality solutions, ensuring seamless deployment, data accuracy, process adherence, and continuous improvement across manufacturing operations.

How You'll Make an Impact

• Create and update quality card requirement for the products, in discussion with the Global Product Team and Factory team.
• Coordinate with software team to implement the requirements in the Digital system.
• Review and monitor the implementation of Digital solution in factory in terms of completeness and accuracy.
• Coordinate improvement actions to rectify issues and improve full adherence to process.
• Run workshops and training sessions with the factories and Software teams as needed to drive implementation of solutions in the factory.
• Serve as a liaison between factory stakeholders and technology teams.
• Support the DPS Supplier Implementation.
• Collaborate with key stake holders, both internal & external and drive the implementation of Digital Passport System at Supplier end.
• Monitor the sustenance of the Digital Passport System deployment at the supply base and initiate improvement actions when required.
• Provide technical assistance to the suppliers both for the implementation of Digital Passport System (DPS) and use of the digital platform.
• Responsible to ensure compliance with applicable external and internal regulations, procedures, and guidelines.
• Living Hitachi Energy’s core values of safety and integrity, which means taking responsibility for your own actions while caring for yourcolleagues and the business.

Your Background

• Bachelor of Engineering, with overall experience of 6 – 8 years.
• Minimum 4 years of experience in a similar role in Manufacturing domain.
• Demonstrated experience with requirements gathering solution deployment, & end user engagement.
• Should possess strong leadership skills and ability to communicate with business and IT stakeholders in a complex, highly international environment.

We are a global leader in electrification, powering the electricity era to meet the energy demands of today, and the next 25 years. As the energy arm of Hitachi Group, over three billion people depend on our pioneering, mission-critical technologies to power their daily lives.

With over a century of innovation, we are addressing the most urgent energy challenge of our time: driving the evolution of the world’s energy system to ensure abundant, secure, affordable, and sustainable power for today’s generation and the next.

With an unparalleled installed base in over 140 countries, we are the grid ecosystem partner across the utility, industry, data center, and transportation sectors. Headquartered in Switzerland, we employ over 56,000 people in 60 countries and generate revenues of around $20 billion USD.