System Studies Team Manager - HVDC

Hitachi ABB Power Grids; Chennai District; On-site; INR 2,500,000 - 4,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Hitachi ABB Power Grids in Chennai is seeking a Team Manager to drive strategy, operations, and people development for a local group. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, suppliers and customers to deliver valued outcomes.

You will oversee resource planning, tender calculations, risk assessment, and KPI achievement while building a local road map and ensuring compliance with safety and integrity values.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's/Master's degree in Electrical/Electronic engineering.
• 3+ years as Line Manager/Team Leader with team size of 10+.
• Basic knowledge in HVDC/FACTS/Substation.
• Experience in Primary design of HVDC/FACTS/Substation is preferable.
• Good intercultural sensitivity and strong leadership skills.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Plan resource allocation based on forecast of tenders and projects in collaboration with global organization.
• Ensure KPI of the department (e.g., on-time delivery, FPY, productivity) and achieving financial budget.
• Review techno-economic offering by your line in a tender/project, assess risk and opportunity.
• Run routine reviews and follow-ups with project teams, cross-functional teams, suppliers and customers; recruit personnel per HC budget.
• Be responsible for personnel assessments and future scope expansion, drive local operation development.
• Participate in unit strategy work and develop local roadmap.
• Ensure compliance with applicable regulations, procedures, and guidelines.
• Live Hitachi Energy’s core values of safety and integrity.

Skills

Leadership

Team management

Communication

Collaboration

Risk management

Education

Bachelors/Masters in Electrical/Electronic Engineering

Job description

As Team Manager at INOPC-HVDC, Chennai you will be responsible for a given Group’s strategy, operation, resource planning, competence

development and people development. You need to collaborate with various cross-functional group/teams, suppliers and customers. You will

be part of local management and act as a “sounding board” within the organization. Analysis and risk management will also be among your

tasks. You will in many ways be the person at the center of things. Together with the tender responsible you will also handle tender

calculations and pricing models.

How you’ll make an impact:

You will be responsible for resource planning medium to long term and allocation based on the forecast of tenders & projects in collaboration with global organization.

• You will ensure KPI of the department (e.g. on time delivery, FPY, productivity) & ensure achieving financial budget.
• You will review and approve techno-economic offering by your line in a tender/project, assess risk and opportunity.
• You will run routine review & follow-up with the project team and other cross-functional teams, supplier and customers, recruit personnel as per HC budget.
• You will be responsible for personnel assessments / people’s review, target setting for the direct reports, workout future scope expansion and competence development & drive operation development for the local organization.
• You will participate in unit’s strategic work and develop local strategy and road map.
• You willbe 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 yourcolleagues and the business.

Your background:

• You hold a bachelor's / master's degree in engineering in Electrical / Electronic.
• You should have previous experience of Line Manager/Team Leader at least 3 years with a team size of at least 10+.
• You should have basic knowledge in HVDC/FACTS/Substation.
• Experience in Primary design of HVDC /FACTS / substation is preferrable.
• Good intercultural sensitivity along with Strong leadership skills required.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills required.

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.