Systems Design Team Manager - HVDC

About the Company:

Hitachi Energy is a world leader that is advancing a sustainable energy future for all. We are advancing the world’s energy system to be more sustainable, flexible, and secure, and we collaborate with customers and partners to enable a sustainable energy future – for today’s generations and those to come.

The Hitachi Energy Indian Operations Center (INOPC) is a competence center with around 3000+ skilled engineers who focus on tendering, engineering, planning, procurement, project Management, functional system testing, installation supervision, documentation and commissioning. However, over the last decade, it has evolved to become the largest Operations hub. The India Operations Centre team at Chennai, Bangalore and Gurugram supports Hitachi Energy’s units in more than 40 countries across a wide portfolio of all the four business units in Hitachi Energy To date, the team has executed engineering and commissioning for projects in more than 80 countries.

HVDC (High Voltage Direct Current) and HVDC Light® are highly efficient alternatives for transmitting bulk power and for special purpose applications. The classic HVDC technology is used to transmit electric power over long distances by overhead transmission lines or submarine cables. It is also used to interconnect separate power systems, where traditional alternating current (AC) connections cannot be used. HVDC Light® is an underground. ​

The opportunity: 

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:

• Resource planning medium to long term and allocation based on the forecast of tenders & projects in collaboration with global organization.

• Ensure KPI of the department (e.g. on time delivery, FPY, productivity) & ensure achieving financial budget.

• Review and approve techno-economic offering by your line in a tender/project, assess risk and opportunity.

• Run routine review & follow-up with the project team and other cross-functional teams, supplier and customers.

• Responsible for personnel assessments / people’s review, target setting for the direct reports

• Identify people’s development area(s) and implement actions accordingly.

• Workout future scope expansion and competence development & drive operation development for the local organization.

• Participate in unit’s strategic work and develop local strategy and road map.

• Living Hitachi Energy’s core values of safety and integrity, which means taking responsibility for your own actions while caring for your colleagues and the business.

Your background:

• Bachelor / master’s degree in engineering in Electrical / Electronic preferred.

• 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 is preferred.

• Experience in HVDC / FACTS systems is preferrable.

• Good intercultural sensitivity with strong leadership skills .

• Strong communication and collaboration skills required.