R&D Mechanical Engineer

As R&D Mechanical Engineer, you will join our South America R&D Center, an organization leading continuous research and development activities on transformers.
Specifically, you will be part of the R&D Team in Blumenau (Brazil), and you will contribute to the development of projects related to the electrical performance of distribution transformers and contribute to the successful roadmap execution.

Your Responsibilities:

• Propose and analyze innovative ideas in the Mechanical design of distribution transformers to fulfill the challenging technical requirements of transformer for new markets
• Define Design of Experiments for validating the proposed solutions
• Design and supervision of the manufacturing and testing of the prototypes
• Lead the RD project execution, to ensure the performance, time and cost are within the expectations.
• Document project progress, obtain conclusions and derive the design rules of the validated solutions.
• Support other RD colleagues from all Hitachi Energy RD community by analyzing and optimizing the structural or thermal design of other RD projects
• Provide punctual technical support to factories, salespeople and customers
• 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

• BSc or MSc in Mechanical Engineering or similar. Higher formal educational will be meriting.
• Experience in mechanical design of transformers
• Advanced knowledge of mechanical of solids, manufacturing process and/or thermal design
• Good Knowlagent of design tool, preferences PTC Creo.
• Background in use of FEA simulation shall be well valuable
• Initiative, creativity, "out of the box" thinking and great attention to detail
• Collaborative, solution-oriented approach, and strong communication skills
• Project managements skills
• English proficient, both written and spoken