Mechanical Design Engineer

General Information:

Hitachi Energy is seeking for a Mechanical Design Engineer for its South Boston, VA Location.

Your Responsibilities:

• Creation of customized designs with high priority on safety design aspects and identification and control of hazards. Contributes to design reviews and verification following established QA/QC process, provides feedback on design aspects and makes necessary modifications. Optimizes designs to meet updated standards, incorporating new products, components and functionalities. Creates or reviews engineering drawings, specifications and plans required by manufacturing, fabrication or construction.
• 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.
• Defines focus areas/priorities for design to ensure technological excellence connected with other disciplines. Supports continuous improvement in design area. Design, analyze, and evaluate systems, products or components, requiring a high degree of technical expertise.
• Design and develop complex models or simulations and apply advanced computer programs, analytical techniques or control strategies to effectively meet requirements and resolve problems.
• Conduct economic studies and prepare or lead the preparation of specifications, proposals for contracts, licensing and safety documents, and obtain required approvals.
• Works with the customer to shape and deliver design solutions, seeks feedback from customer to drive and deliver improvement. Establishes and maintains relations with key customer to understand customer's technical issues/ requirements.
• Requires thorough knowledge of a specific engineering discipline plus an understanding of related disciplines to coordinate activities, analyze and resolve problems crossing disciplines and to develop new concepts for programs. Technical input, recommendations and decisions may impact the organization's effectiveness and customer relations. Requires ability to interface effectively, internally and with customers.

• Master's degree in mechanical engineering or related field plus 3 years of experience in transformer design or bachelor's degree with 5 years of experience in transformer design or an associate degree with 8 years of experience in transformer design; alternatively, a special combination of education and experience and/or demonstrated accomplishments
• Candidate must already have work authorization that would permit them to work for Hitachi Energy in the United States