Global Design Sustainability Leader

Hitachi Energy

Kraków

On-site

PLN 300,000 - 450,000

Full time

14 days+
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Job summary

Hitachi Energy is looking for an Engineering Design Sustainability Lead who will embed sustainability into global engineering decisions across our transformer business. You’ll shape how design choices reduce carbon, optimize materials, and improve environmental performance from the outset.

You’ll translate sustainability ambitions into measurable product outcomes, balancing cost, safety, quality, and performance, while supporting compliance, ESG reporting, and long-term resilience.

Qualifications

  • Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering or related sustainability discipline.
  • 10+ years in engineering, including 5+ years in sustainability roles.
  • Proven success delivering design-led sustainability or product carbon reduction initiatives.
  • Strong knowledge of lifecycle assessment, sustainable materials, and carbon accounting.

Responsibilities

  • Define and drive a global, design-led sustainability strategy within Engineering.
  • Embed sustainability into engineering standards, processes, and decision frameworks.
  • Reduce product-level carbon footprint through smart design and material choices.
  • Establish sustainability targets, KPIs, and traceable product-level data at BOM level.
  • Partner across engineering, R&D, supply chain, digital and operations globally.
  • Strengthen governance, reporting, and audit-ready sustainability metrics.
  • Build capability and ownership of sustainable design within engineering teams.
  • Translate regulatory and customer sustainability expectations into engineering requirements.
  • Ensure compliance with applicable regulations, procedures, and guidelines.

Skills

Sustainability leadership
Cross-functional collaboration
Data-driven decisions
Lifecycle assessment
Carbon accounting
Stakeholder influence

Education

Master’s degree in Engineering
PhD in Engineering or related sustainability

Tools

Lifecycle assessment tools

Job description

Hitachi Energy is looking for an Engineering Design Sustainability Lead who will embed sustainability into global engineering decisions across our transformer business. You’ll shape how design choices reduce carbon, optimize materials, and improve environmental performance from the outset.

You’ll translate sustainability ambitions into measurable product outcomes, balancing cost, safety, quality, and performance, while supporting compliance, ESG reporting, and long-term resilience.

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