Grid Solutions R&D Senior Primary Engineer - IDC

Hitachi Automotive Systems Americas, Inc.; India; On-site; INR 800,000 - 1,100,000; Full time

Job summary

HITACHI ENERGY TECHNOLOGY SERVICES PRIVATE LIMITED seeks a design authority in engineering to own assignments with low to medium complexity. You will guide technical solutions, prepare schematics, layouts, and specifications, and collaborate with the OU Engineering team and customers to ensure on-time, cost-effective delivery.

You will lead project teams, monitor scope, schedule and budgets, and interact with suppliers to maintain quality and control costs throughout the project lifecycle.

Qualifications

• Design authority for an engineering discipline.
• Complete assignments on small projects or portions of larger projects, cost-effectively and in accordance with contract specifications, quality standards and safety requirements.

Responsibilities

• Lead, supervise and coordinate engineering project team: scope, schedule & progress, approvals, budget, targets, resource load & cost-to-complete.
• Act as SPOC with customers for engineering activities and participate in customer meetings to understand needs and improve experience.
• Ensure engineering processes are applied and scale with Engineering Manager when needed.
• Conduct engineering project reviews and report progress and cost-to-complete to Engineering- and Project Managers.
• Establish contacts with suppliers for technical support and to improve quality or reduce costs.

Job description

Location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India Company Name: HITACHI ENERGY TECHNOLOGY SERVICES PRIVATE LIMITED Profession (Job Category): Engineering & Science Job Schedule: Full time Remote: No

Job Description:

The opportunity: Design authority for an engineering discipline with low to medium complexity. Complete assignments on small projects or portions of larger projects, cost-effectively and in accordance with contract specifications, quality standards and safety requirements. Based on technical specification from end customers and inputs from OU Engineering team, prepare Protection & Principle SLD, Schematics, Power supply scheme, Substation layouts - plan & sections, Standard technical specifications for major equipment, R&D activities to improve the work process, Comparison between AIS, GIS & PASS solution, Cost comparison between different solutions, Bill of materials, RFQs, vetting of vendor of- fers, engg hours estimation, technical risk assessment and opportunity evaluation etc.

How you’ll make an impact

To be the design authority for all engineering activities for assignments on projects classified as Low and Medium engineering complexity. Support Project Manager for any technical issues. You will be SPOC with customers for Engineering activities of the project. Participate in customer meetings, act on customer needs, expectations and improve customer experience. To Lead, supervise and coordinate engineering project team: scope, schedule & progress, approvals, budget, targets, resource load & cost-to-complete [Engineering Meetings / Engineering Review]. Ensure Engineering processes are applied and if needed agree on scaling with Engineering Manager. To Conduct Engineering Project Reviews and report progress and cost-to-complete to Engineering- and Project. Manager and establish contacts with suppliers for technical support, to improve material quality and/or to decrease costs. Technical Obtains prototype products and develops technical tests. Ensure the deliveries as per schedule and carry out regular reviews. Having Primary / Secondary design expertise and able to