Product Design Engineering Team Leader

The opportunity

Hitachi Energy is currently looking for an Engineering Team Leader for the Distribution Transformers (Dry/Oil) Business to join their team in Global Engineering Center in Vadodara, India. This team seeks a skilled and motivated individual.

Transformers BU team leverages innovative and diverse technology to transform energy, delivering social, environmental, and economic value and enabling a sustainable energy future for current and future generations. The business's comprehensive portfolio includes power transformers, traction transformers, insulation and components, digital sensors, and transformer services.

How you'll make an impact

• Manage Team of mechanical and electrical designers, deliver design and engineering requirements of project with design optimization aligned with GEC/Factory KPIs and develop technical competence of engineering team.
• Ensure effective communication for team with host factory in terms of understanding the needs, design review meeting, urgency of task, resolving QN's, fast response
• Ensure design and engineering activities without errors and on-time delivery in accordance with customer specifications / host factory needs while maintaining KPIs agreed with factory.
• Ensure effective communication for team with host factory in terms of understanding the needs, design review meeting, urgency of task, resolving QN's, fast response.
• Recognize and reinforce the performance of team members by identifying and encouraging the improvements by development plan.
• Support for development of engineering team members and defining career paths. Coaching the team in a constructive way that strengthens the competency level, communication and reinforces desired results and behaviors.
• Monitor and review design documents prepared by the team and execution of design deliverables.
• Identify methods to avoid cost over-runs and areas to maximize cost-saving while preparing design and implement.
• Coordinate with factory designers who conduct joint inspections with the Manufacturing and Testing departments. Support troubleshooting of issues at vendor-end and at workshop.
• Evaluate priority and severity of manufacturing or quality errors and in coordination with the host factory, assign to the team for corrective measures.
• Managing and addressing risks associated with gaps in the team's technical competence level.
• Motivate the team as all are remotely working for the host factory. Retention of employees.
• 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.

Your background

• B.E. (Mechanical/Electrical)
• 12 years' experience in Trafo design, mainly on Dry/Oil type transformer design.
• Experience of working for North America market IEEE standard & working for Europe and Asian market IEC standard.
• Previous experience in dealing with host factory tasks like GEC set up will give added advantages.
• Sound understanding and hands-on for engineering budgets.
• Substantial experience in working with a cross-functional team.
• Understanding and experience on driving DtV projects.
• Thorough knowledge of design systems, tools and processes being used in Design of Dry/Oil type Transformers.
• Soft skill in collaboration, effective communication & fast response as working remotely on engineering task for host factory.
• Adaptability to new systems and processes of various factories.
• Innovative & Proactive: always looks on continuous improvement related to deliverables, process, and readiness for future.

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Client-provided location(s): Hinganghāt, India

Job ID: Hitachi_Energy-JID3-152359

Employment Type: FULL_TIME

Posted: 2025-09-01T23:34:42