Sales Engineering Manager OLTC & Bushings | Ludvika, Sweden

Hitachi ABB Power Grids; Ludvika kommun; On-site; SEK 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Hitachi Energy is seeking a Sales Engineering Manager to lead a regional team focused on OLTC and Bushings within the transformer components domain. The role involves close customer collaboration, technical leadership, and driving solution alignment with market needs.

Based in Ludvika, Sweden or Zurich, Switzerland, you will steer engineering and commercial efforts, travel internationally about 20%, and shape the future of the sales engineering organization.

Qualifications

• Minimum of three years' engineering experience in Transformer/Bushings/OLTC technology.
• Experience in people management within a technical or commercial environment.
• Ability to explain advanced technical knowledge clearly to others.

Responsibilities

• Lead, inspire and develop a regional team of Sales Engineers with ongoing customer engagement.
• Apply the team's application expertise to ensure solutions meet customer needs across Bushings and OLTC.
• Foster a highly collaborative environment with internal and external stakeholders.
• Participate in customer meetings, technical support activities, and international travel.
• Uphold safety and integrity as core values in all actions.

Skills

Leadership

Engineering expertise

Customer focus

Strategic/business mindset

English fluency

Job description

Sales Engineering Manager OLTC & Bushings

We, Hitachi Energy – Insulation and Components, are looking for you who would like to join us in the position Sales Engineering Manager! We are working within the transformer business, supplying world-class components to transformer manufacturers worldwide. We are proud of our product portfolio, our global customer base as well as our modern production units. Our strong ambition will always be to be our customers’ preferred choice of supply and hope that you will play a key role.

Are you a person with excellent leadership skills combined with strong technical expertise and a true interest in working close to customers and colleagues? Do you enjoy leveraging your team's expertise to support colleagues and customers and ensure that our solutions meet customer needs? Then this could be the right opportunity for you! This is a newly created role, offering a unique opportunity to shape and develop the future Sales Engineering organization. As Sales Engineering Manager, you will have a significant impact on how the team operates, collaborates with stakeholders, and supports our colleagues and customers globally. You will lead a regional team of Sales Engineers supporting both Bushings and OLTC.

This position is with placement in Ludvika, Sweden or Zurich, Switzerland.

How you’ll make an impact

• Lead, inspire and develop a regional team of Sales Engineers while maintaining active engagement with customers and key stakeholders
• Apply the Sales Engineering team's application expertise in Bushings and Tap-Changers to work closely with customers, sales, marketing and tendering teams, ensuring that our solutions meet customer needs.
• Foster a highly collaborative environment with both internal and external stakeholders.
• Actively participate in customer meetings, technical support activities, and sales engineering initiatives, including international travel.
• Living our core values of safety and integrity, which means taking responsibility for your own actions while caring for your colleagues and the business
  

Your background

• A minimum of three years’ engineering experience in Transformer/Bushings/OLTC technology.
• Previous people-management experience within a technical or commercial environment.
• Communicative and can explain advanced technical knowledge in a simple and easy way.
• Strategic with a constant business mind, proven commercial experience in complex environments.
• Fluency (written and spoken) in English is mandatory. Additional language skills such as Swedish, Spanish, German, or French are considered an advantage.
• International travel required (approx. 20%)

More about us

Are you ready for an exciting new challenge? Does the above description sound like you? Don’t Applications will be reviewed on an ongoing basis, so don’t delay – apply today!

More information: Recruiting Manager, Henrik Boström, [e-mail] will answer your questions about the position. Union representatives - Sveriges Ingenjörer: Håkan Blomquist, [phone]; Ledarna: Frank Hollstedt, [phone]; Unionen: Tomas L. Gustafsson, [phone]. All other questions can be directed to Talent Acquisition Partner Christian Falevik, [e-mail] .

Job type Full time

Experience Management

Job function Engineering & Science

Contract Regular

Publication date 2026-07-16

Reference number R0133071

About Hitachi Energy

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. We welcome you to apply today.