R&D Team Manager - HVDC System Design - IDC

Hitachi ABB Power Grids; Chennai District; On-site; INR 3,000,000 - 5,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Hitachi Energy India Development Centre in Chennai seeks a Manager for HVDC System Design to lead a highly skilled team of engineers in advancing HVDC and FACTS technologies. You will own key design initiatives, drive technical excellence, and ensure timely delivery while aligning with the company’s safety and integrity values.

The role requires an engineering degree in power systems or power electronics, strong leadership, and English communication in an international environment.

Qualifications

• Engineering degree in a relevant technology field such as Power Systems or Power Electronics.
• Strong decision making and ownership of scope.
• Experience in R&D and people management is preferable.
• Fluent in English (spoken and written).

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of engineers and specialists in HVDC System Design.
• Ensure development and retention of team members.
• Manage operational tasks and ensure high quality output.
• Drive the team's vision aligned with the organization's strategy.
• Develop team competencies and work processes.
• Collaborate with receiving organizations and global teams.

Job description

Company Profile Hitachi Energy is a pioneering technology leader that is helping to increase access to affordable, reliable, sus tainable, and modern energy for all. We help to power your home, keep the factories running, and our hospitals and schools open. Come as you are and prepare to get better as you learn from others. Bring your passion, bring your energy, and plug into a team that appreciates a simple truth: Diversity + Collaboration = Great Innovation. Visit us- www.hitachienergy.com Business Information: Hitachi Energy India Development Centre (IDC), is a research and development facility with around 500 R&D engi neers, specialists, and experts, who focus on creating and sustaining digital solutions, new products and technology. This includes product integration, testing, cybersecurity, and certification. The India Development Centre is situated in Chennai and Bangalore. IDC collaborates with the R&D and Research centres of Hitachi Energy, which are spread across more than 15 loca tions throughout 12 countries. In the past 20 years, IDC has secured more than 200 international papers and 150+ patents.

Your Responsibilities:

• In this role as manager for HVDC System Design you will be a part of a committed team that operates in the forefront of technology.
• You will lead a highly knowledgeable team of engineers and specialist, ensure development and retention.
• Manage operational tasks for the team, ensure high quality output from the team.
• Be engaged in creating and driving inspiring team’s vision connected with organization’s vision & strategy.
• You will take ownership of developing the team’s competence and work processes.
• Actively encourage collaboration with the receiving organizations as well as with global team.
• 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:

• You hold at least Engineering Degree preferably in relevant technology field e.g. Power Systems, Power Electronics and having knowledge in HVDC & FACTS technology.
• As a person you have a passion for people and technology, you are strong in decision making and have the right inner drive to take on full responsibility for your scope and deliver on time in a dynamic environment. Prior experience in R&D, people management are preferable. S
• ound understanding of R&D activities and so in power system business/project.
• Since we work in an international environment you need to master spoken and written English.
• You are a genuine team player that seeks and enjoys collaboration with peers and partners

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.