Substation Reliability & Condition Assessment Specialist | Remote - North Carolina, United Stat[...]

Hitachi ABB Power Grids; North Carolina; À distance; USD 110 000 - 150 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Health benefits

Retirement benefits

Paid leave

Flexible work arrangements

Résumé du poste

Hitachi Energy seeks a Substation Reliability & Condition Assessment Specialist to perform system-level assessments across North America, using standardized tools to evaluate asset condition, system performance, and operational risk. You will conduct on-site inspections, collect structured data, evaluate asset interactions, and prepare technical reports.

Present findings to customer stakeholders and develop lifecycle-oriented recommendations that connect maintenance actions with service

Qualifications

• U.S. work authorization required for Hitachi Energy.
• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Power Systems, or related field (10+ years experience welcomed).
• Experience with HV substation equipment, service engineering, field service, asset management, reliability, maintenance, or lifecycle services.
• Experience conducting technical assessments, inspections, audits, site reviews, or reliability studies in customer-facing environments.
• Comfortable using digital assessment tools, structured data collection methods, risk-based reporting, and technical documentation.

Responsabilités

• Identify target customers and sites through installed-base screening and lifecycle opportunity reviews.
• Define assessment scope, system boundaries, and required technical inputs.
• Configure assessment tools and complete pre-assessment preparation activities.
• Conduct on-site inspections and structured data collection across customer assets and systems.
• Evaluate asset condition, system performance, operational risk, and system-level interactions.
• Prepare technical reports, validate conclusions, and identify failure modes, risks, and improvement opportunities.
• Develop recommendations that connect corrective actions with lifecycle service opportunities.
• Present findings and recommended actions to customer stakeholders.
• Responsible to ensure compliance with applicable external and internal regulations, procedures, and guidelines.

Connaissances

HV substations experience

Asset management

Reliability studies

Technical documentation

Structured data collection

Risk-based reporting

Power systems knowledge

Customer-facing experience

Formation

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering/Power Systems

Description du poste

Substation Reliability & Condition Assessment Specialist

In this role, you will execute system-level assessments of customer installations across North America using standardized assessment tools to evaluate asset condition, system performance, operational risk, and system-level interactions. You will conduct on-site inspections and structured data collection, develop risk-based recommendations, prepare technical reports, and present findings to customer stakeholders. Your work will help identify lifecycle service opportunities including maintenance strategies, retrofits, life extension initiatives, service-level agreements, and performance improvements. By providing condition transparency and actionable recommendations, you will support informed asset management activities and contribute to the reliability, performance, and modernization of power system infrastructure.

How You’ll Make an Impact

• Identify target customers and sites through installed-base screening and lifecycle opportunity reviews.
• Define assessment scope, system boundaries, and required technical inputs.
• Configure assessment tools and complete pre-assessment preparation activities.
• Conduct on-site inspections and structured data collection across customer assets and systems.
• Evaluate asset condition, system performance, operational risk, and system-level interactions.
• Prepare technical reports, validate conclusions, and identify failure modes, risks, and improvement opportunities.
• Develop recommendations that connect corrective actions with lifecycle service opportunities.
• Present findings and recommended actions to customer stakeholders.
• Responsible to ensure compliance with applicable external and internal regulations, procedures, and guidelines.

Your Background

• Candidate must already have work authorization that would permit them to work for Hitachi Energy in the United States.
• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Power Systems, or a related technical field, or equivalent field experience (10+ years).
• Experience with HV substation equipment, service engineering, field service, asset management, reliability, maintenance, or lifecycle services.
• Experience conducting technical assessments, inspections, audits, site reviews, or reliability studies in customer-facing environments.
• Experience assessing asset condition, system interactions, operational risk, and lifecycle implications.
• Comfortable using digital assessment tools, structured data collection methods, risk-based reporting, and technical documentation.
• Understanding of maintenance strategies and service-level agreements, life extension, and performance improvement activities.

More About Us

You will gain exposure to cross-functional collaboration, customer-facing technical work, and opportunities to expand your capabilities in power system reliability and lifecycle services.

Work on innovative energy technologies that support power system performance, lifecycle services, and infrastructure modernization.

Collaborate with experienced professionals across sales, service engineering, operations, portfolio management, and product organizations.

Access learning, training, coaching, and assessment capability development opportunities.

Participate in programs that include health and retirement benefits.

Benefit from paid leave offerings and workplace flexibility programs.

Location Remote - North Carolina, United States of America; Remote - Missouri, United States of America; Remote - Ontario, Canada; Remote - Quebec, Canada; Remote - Tennessee, United States of America

Job type Full time

Experience Experienced

Job function Sales, Marketing & Product Management

Contract Regular

Publication date 2026-07-23

Reference number R0138953

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.