Job Summary

Lead and inspire a high-performing engineering team to consistently deliver high-quality engineering solutions and project deliverables on time, meeting customer expectations and business objectives.

Responsibilities

- Drive the implementation of engineering processes, tools, quality management systems (QMS), and LOM engineering frameworks, ensuring compliance with global standards and continuous process improvement.

- Foster close collaboration with Operating Units, customers to ensure efficient execution of projects and tenders while promoting engineering excellence and knowledge sharing.

- Develop and maintain project and tender resource forecasts, aligning team capacity with business demand through proactive workforce planning and close coordination with Operating Units Engineering Managers.

- Take ownership of team organization, staffing, competency development, budget planning, and resource utilization to ensure sustainable growth and operational efficiency.

- Monitor project and tender pipelines, anticipate resource requirements, and proactively allocate engineering resources to support business growth and successful project delivery.

- Drive accountability for internal and external KPIs, ensuring engineering performance, quality, schedule adherence, customer satisfaction, and productivity targets are achieved.

- Support project/tendering activities by providing technical leadership, engineering estimates, risk assessments, innovative solutions, and timely delivery of project/tender engineering deliverables.

- Build a strong performance-driven culture through regular coaching, constructive feedback, development planning, and competency enhancement aligned with team and business strategies.

- Identify opportunities for standardization, digitalization, lessons learned implementation, and continuous improvement to enhance engineering efficiency, quality, and customer value.





- Champion employee development through structured training, mentoring, technical knowledge-sharing sessions, and succession planning initiatives.

- Effectively manage daily operational challenges, stakeholder expectations, and conflict situations to maintain a cooperative and productive working environment.

- Lead project scrum, daily and weekly follow-up meetings, and team review sessions to ensure transparency, timely issue resolution, risk mitigation, and alignment with project priorities.

- Promote a culture of safety, quality, collaboration, and continuous learning while enabling the team to deliver innovative and cost-effective solutions.

- You will be responsible to ensure compliance with applicable external and internal regulations, procedures, and guidelines.

- 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.

Qualifications Your background

- Master's degree in Power Systems with 8+ years of experience in a similar leadership role, or Bachelor's degree in Electrical Electronics Engineering with 10+ years of experience in a similar role.

- Strong experience in Substation Project Engineering, with sound understanding of primary, secondary, protection control, communication, cybersecurity, and commissioning aspects of AIS and GIS substations.

- Good knowledge of Hitachi Energy products, systems, engineering processes, and project delivery models, with the ability to translate customer requirements into practical engineering solutions.

- Proven experience in people management, including team leadership, resource planning, performance management, competency development, coaching, and succession planning.

- Demonstrated ability to lead engineering teams delivering projects and tenders while ensuring quality, schedule, cost, and customer satisfaction targets are achieved.

📌 Team Manager (Chennai)
🏢 Hitachi Energy
📍 Chennai