Discipline Product Engineer (DPE) - Electrical Engineering

Hitachi Energy; Chennai District; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Job summary

Hitachi Energy is seeking a highly motivated Discipline Product Engineer to join our Product Portfolio Management team. This role involves managing the lifecycle and roadmap for Electrical Engineering solutions, focusing on scalability and standardization.

The ideal candidate will have over 10 years of experience in Electrical Engineering, strong leadership abilities, and a BE/M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering or equivalent. Join us to drive innovation and product management in a collaborative environment.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in Electrical Engineering or related fields.
• Strong communication and leadership skills.
• Experience with diverse, cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Oversee lifecycle of Discipline Solutions and Electrical Engineering tools.
• Translate market and engineering needs into product requirements.
• Monitor Electrical Engineering performance and suggest improvements.

Skills

Electrical Engineering

Product Management

Collaboration

Leadership

Standardization

Education

BE/M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering

Tools

E3 Zuken

Siemens Teamcenter

Job description

We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Discipline Product Engineer (DPE) to join our Product Portfolio Management team. The DPE will play a crucial role in managing the lifecycle, requirements, configuration, and roadmap for the solutions in the Electrical Engineering discipline. The DPE role has a specific focus on scale-up and reuse through cross-product platform thinking and discipline-wide consistency, complementing deep ownership within individual Electrical solutions.

How You’ll Make An Impact

• Oversee the lifecycle of Discipline Solutions and internal Electrical Engineering tools, ensuring version control, updates, and business continuity, with an emphasis on reuse and scalability across products and applications.
• Translating market and engineering needs into Product Requirement Specifications and drive the Electrical roadmap in coordination with the Global Product Manager and Global Product Specialist, ensuring alignment across products to enable reuse and avoid solution lock-in.
• Maintaining and contributing to the development of Electrical Engineering Solutions and ensuring documentation, including user guides and technical references, is current, accessible, and complete, with a focus on standardization of building blocks, tools, and processes for reuse.
• Promoting disruptive innovations including leveraging automation to streamline Electrical Engineering processes, reduce engineering hours, and enhance competitiveness, particularly in scale-up and high-volume scenarios.
• Collaborating with other experts to modularize methods and develop replicable tools that scale across projects, ensuring platform consistency and reuse between products such as Shunt and Series applications (Statcom, Series compensation).
• Monitoring Electrical Engineering performance in tenders, projects and coordinating feedback-driven improvements across teams, identifying systemic patterns and opportunities that strengthen the shared base solutions.
• Aligning with other disciplines and units to maximize solutions and ensure cross-product compatibility and governed deviations that feed learning back to the base.
• Tracking updates in design tools, engaging with industry forums, and building networks to support discipline-wide scale-up readiness and reuse.
• Providing guidance in tenders and projects and ensuring knowledge transfer across global teams, with focus on consistent application of the Electrical base solutions rather than local adaptations.
• Collaborating and coordinating with the technical area responsible and subject matter experts to drive continuous improvement and adoption of reliable, product-based solutions.
• Collaborating with product management to establish and sustain the product lifecycle management system (PLM).
• Responsible for ensuring 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 your colleagues and the business.

Your Background

• BE/M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering or similar experience gained in other business.
• 10+ years of experience in Electrical Engineering, modularization or engineering products, standardization, design tools (E3 Zuken or similar), PDM system (Siemens Teamcenter or similar).
• Strong communication, collaboration, and leadership abilities.
• Experience working with diverse and cross-functional teams.
• Proven experience in product management is highly desirable.
• Strategic, operational, and solution-oriented mindset with a focus on business productivity and efficiency.
• Proficiency in both spoken & written English language is required.