Project Management Engineering

Hitachi ABB Power Grids; Chennai District; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 3,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Hitachi Energy Indian Operations Center is seeking an experienced Project Engineer to coordinate engineering delivery across disciplines. You will support planning, governance, risk management, and performance monitoring with engineering and project teams.

You will help ensure quality, schedule adherence, and customer commitments while driving improvements in governance and interfaces across projects and supply chain.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or master's degree in Electrical Engineering.
• 6–10 years of project engineering or execution experience.
• Experience in power systems or multidisciplinary engineering delivery.
• Strong coordination and stakeholder management skills.
• Proficiency in English (written and spoken).

Responsibilities

• Drive engineering stage gates, design reviews, and design freezes.
• Monitor engineering schedules and support timely project delivery.
• Maintain engineering performance reporting and KPIs.
• Identify delivery risks and support mitigation actions.
• Support closure of engineering quality issues and non-conformities.
• Coordinate interfaces across disciplines, projects, and supply chain.
• Lead improvements in engineering processes, tools, and governance.
• Support construction, testing, commissioning, and handover activities.
• Ensure compliance with applicable regulations and internal procedures.

Skills

Coordination

Stakeholder management

Governance

Quality processes

Risk management

Project controls

English proficiency

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering

Job description

Hitachi Energy Indian Operations Center supports global project delivery. The center provides engineering, planning, procurement, testing, and commissioning expertise. In this role, you will coordinate engineering delivery across disciplines. You will support planning, governance, risk management, and performance monitoring. You will work with engineering teams, project managers, and supply chain teams. Your work will help meet quality, schedule, and customer commitments. You will also drive engineering coordination and execution improvements.

How you’ll make an impact:

• Drive engineering stage gates, design reviews, and design freezes.
• Monitor engineering schedules and support timely project delivery.
• Maintain engineering performance reporting and key performance indicators.
• Identify delivery risks and support practical mitigation actions.
• Support closure of engineering quality issues and non-conformities.
• Coordinate interfaces across disciplines, projects, and supply chain.
• Lead improvements in engineering processes, tools, and governance.
• Support construction, testing, commissioning, and project handover activities.
• 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 your colleagues and the business.

Your background:

• Bachelor's or master's degree in Electrical Engineering.
• 6 to 10 years of project engineering or execution experience.
• Experience in power systems or multidisciplinary engineering delivery.
• Strong coordination and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience working with engineering and project teams.
• Understanding of engineering governance and quality processes.
• Knowledge of risk management and project controls.Proficiency in English, both written and spoken.

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.