Electrical Design Manager

The opportunity

To lead a team of Electrical Designers/Engineers to deliver high quality, cost effective and timely engineering solutions for customers. Create plans and allocate resources to meet the agreed contractual and financial targets. Ensure the team's compliance with standard processes, procedures, practices and safety requirements. He / She will be responsible for performance reviews for team members.

How you'll make an impact

• Takes technical oversight of work within own area of responsibility, holds regular progress reviews, identifies and manages technical issues that occur. Defines operating guidelines and development strategies for direct reports providing them with technical guidance.
• Ensures team builds a culture of identifying and satisfying customer needs to support business growth. Drives development of processes and practices based on customer feedback. Provides engineering support during the bid phase, ensuring that the required resources to deliver the technical solutions are correctly accounted for (e.g. the requirements for safety, technical competence, quality, schedule and cost).
• Takes contractual oversight for work within own area of responsibility, holds regular progress reviews, identifies contractual issues and reports early to management with recommendations for resolution.
• Ensures the correct allocation of assignments and tasks within the team, defining relevant performance metrics (e.g. technical compliance, schedule, cost, quality and safety standards).
• Creates work plans and cost estimates for work in own area of responsibility. Proactively manages the engineering team to deliver the agreed program on time, on quality and at the targeted cost.
• Initiates and drives continuous improvement activities. Develops, implements and improves relevant processes, policies and procedures to improve efficiency and effectiveness across the Engineering function. Ensures local procedures align with company policies, processes and procedures and are correctly implemented.
• Ensures (with HR Manager support) that the area of responsibility is properly organized, staffed, skilled and directed. Guides, motivates, coaches and develops direct and indirect subordinates within HR polices
• Participates in defining the annual budget for area of responsibility and is accountable for managing performance against agreed financial targets and constraints.
• 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.
• Responsible to ensure compliance with applicable external and internal regulations, procedures, and guidelines.

• Bachelor's / Master's degree in Electrical Engineering
• 5 or more years of industry experience of leading electrical / mechanical project engineering applied to Power Transformers and Shunt Reactors (preferably 400kV and 765kV product range).
• Working experience of leading transformer cost optimization and competitiveness improvement projects will be preferred.
• Familiarity with 3D CAD and productivity tools (SAP, engineering design tools, PLM - product lifecycle management) will be preferred.
• Exposure to engineering quality improvement tools such as Statistical analysis of NCs, design and test parameters, Six Sigma tools, managing customer complaints will be an added plus.
• Proficiency in both spoken & written English language is required.