Project Lead Engineer - protection & control systems
Project Lead Engineer - protection & control systems
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The Opportunity
Business Unit Grid Automation based in Santa Palomba Roma – Technical Lead Engineer to support engineering activities related to the automation scope of medium and high voltage substations, including testing and commissioning.
Drive excellence by ensuring engineering, testing, and commissioning activities are efficiently and cost‑effectively executed in accordance with customer expectations, contract specifications, Hitachi Energy policies, quality standards, and safety requirements.
How You'll Make An Impact
- Act as a technical lead and design authority for engineering deliverables across disciplines; coordinate all technical activities during the complete project cycle, including testing and commissioning.
- Work closely with customers to shape and deliver solutions, utilizing feedback to drive delivery of innovative improvements and maintain high satisfaction; collaborate with colleagues and engineers across disciplines, sharing knowledge within the HUB Europe Region.
- Support the Project Manager in costings: submit estimations, issue claims related to changes in scope, assess cost and time impacts, and risk implications.
- Prepare base design of substation automation systems, control and protection; verify the implemented base design within detailed design.
- Take over aspects of detailed design engineering, testing, or commissioning based on project needs.
- Resolve complex technical issues remotely and at domestic/international customer sites.
- Provide technical details, financial information and deliverables for sales proposals.
- Ensure compliance with company health, safety, and environmental policies.
Your Background
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in Electrical/Electronic/Automation Engineering (or similar).
- More than 5 years of work experience in substation automation projects.
- Knowledge of control and protection relays and solutions for high and medium voltage substations; knowledge of standard and industrial LAN networks; knowledge of industrial automation and electrical field (PLC, RTU, SCADA).
- Fluency in Italian and good knowledge of English (B2).
- Strong communication, proactivity, teamwork and problem‑solving skills.
More About Us
We offer the opportunity to work with fantastic people and develop yourself on projects that present great technical challenges and have a real impact.
Wide Range of Benefits
- Health insurance
- Pension fund
- Welfare
- Smart working
- Flexible working hours
- Lunch ticket or canteen
Company Overview
Hitachi Energy is a global technology leader in electrification, powering a sustainable energy future through innovative power grid technologies with digital at the core. Over three billion people depend on our technologies to power their daily lives.
With over a century in pioneering mission‑critical technologies like high‑voltage, transformers, automation, and power electronics, we address the most urgent energy challenge of our time – balancing soaring electricity demand while decarbonizing the power system.
Headquartered in Switzerland, we employ over 50,000 people in 60 countries and generate revenues of around $16 billion USD. We welcome you to apply today.