Control and Protection Specialist

Hitachi Energy; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 800,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

A global technology leader in electrification is seeking a Technical Marketing Specialist in Bengaluru. The successful candidate will leverage their extensive experience to drive sales through technical promotion, engage with stakeholders, and ensure compliance with internal regulations. With a BE/BTech in a relevant field and over 5 years of experience, you will play a key role in shaping customer decisions and promoting innovative solutions. This position offers an exciting opportunity to contribute to a sustainable energy future.

Qualifications

• 5 to 10+ years of experience in power transmission and distribution networks.
• Experience with bay level protection & control equipment.
• Strong collaboration skills with various teams.

Responsibilities

• Drive specification influence and proof of concepts.
• Engage in pre-sales activities and create demand.
• Conduct training and presentations for stakeholders.

Skills

Technical promotion

Customer-facing experience

Communication skills

Engineering tools proficiency

Education

BE/BTech in power systems, electrical, or communications

Job description

The Opportunity

Ensure efficiency and effectiveness of operations to facilitate business activities. Develop and sustain effective control environment to strengthen corporate governance. Diversity + Collaboration = Great Innovation.

As a candidate for the Technical Marketing Specialist, you bring expertise from protection and control domain and valuable customer-facing experience. Your ability to translate technical needs into effective solutions is key to shaping customer decisions during the early sales cycle. We value hands‑on experience with protection and control IEDs and proficiency in engineering tools used in digital substations. In this collaborative role, your communication skills will help build credibility with stakeholders. You’ll work closely with internal experts, engage with end‑users, and contribute to driving business growth.

How You’ll Make An Impact

You drive key activities such as specification influence prior to requests for proposals, proof of concepts, homologation, and solution designs.

You create demand through technical promotion, provide solutions and drive value during the sales approach.

You participate in creating exhibition setups and create fresh webinars.

• You work with pre-sales activities of bay level protection & control equipment as standalone products and integrated into Substation Automation system solutions.
• You are closely engaged with the market, end-customers, local country/regional level internal sales & technical teams to promote Hitachi Energy’s bay level products and solutions including pre‑qualification / homologation of Hitachi Energy’s products/solutions.
• Training including content creation and certification for internal and external customers/stakeholders.
• Conduct presentations with end users both face‑to‑face and online aiming to create demand through technical promotion providing solutions and driving value during the overall sales process.
• Living Hitachi Energy’s core values of safety and integrity, which means taking responsibility for your own actions while caring for your colleagues and the business.
• Adhere to all company policies, procedures and business ethics codes and ensure that they are communicated and implemented within all activities.
• Responsible to ensure compliance with applicable external and internal regulations, procedures, and guidelines.

Your Background

• Successful BE/BTech or equivalent, power systems, electrical, communications preferred; experience in automation of power transmission and distribution networks.
• Must have 5 to 10+ year of experience.
• Global roles and responsibilities.
• Close coordination with HUB, R&D, Product Management, Engineering and Sales.

Hitachi Energy is a global technology leader in electrification, powering a sustainable energy future through innovative power grid technologies with digital at the core. Over three billion people depend on our technologies to power their daily lives.

With over a century in pioneering mission‑critical technologies like high‑voltage, transformers, automation, and power electronics, we are addressing the most urgent energy challenge of our time – balancing soaring electricity demand, while decarbonizing the power system.

Headquartered in Switzerland, we employ over 50,000 people in 60 countries and generate revenues of around $16 billion USD. We welcome you to apply today.