Team Lead Engineering

Hitachi Energy's Grid & Power Quality Solutions and Service global product group is a world-leading provider of grid connections and power quality solutions that enable our customers to build a more sustainable, flexible and secure energy system. We leverage our long-standing technology leadership, vast integration expertise, huge installed base and global footprint to provide our customers with life-cycle value solutions at the lowest risk. Our customers are in the utility, renewables, industry, transportation, data centers and infrastructure sectors.

Our business in Europe has more than 1,000 skilled professionals focused on critical areas of expertise and is present in 16 countries.

At Grid & Power Quality Solutions and Service business in Europe (HBUEU), diversity drives our culture of innovation and collaboration. Our leading technology and strong market position enable us to achieve growth targets in the energy transition across current and growing market segments such as hydrogen, data centers and e-mobility.

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The opportunity

We are looking to hire two new managers for our Engineering Department to lead the Primary Engineering unit. The Primary Engineering team handles the electromechanical design of substations, and is responsible for layout and design. We are using Autodesk Construction Cloud as the main tool for our work in this section, and plan to extend the use of this platform in to our other teams.

We seek dynamic and strategic leaders to guide, manage, and coordinate our Engineering team. This role involves enhancing team performance and development to ensure all activities meet necessary standards and fulfil our commitments to customers.

How you'll make an impact

• Collaborate with other departments to manage supplies from an engineering perspective, including analysing resource demand for capacity management.
• Provide insights, develop, and manage team priorities to ensure performance and quality goals are met throughout all project phases.
• Build operational capacity through effective people management and strategic planning, supporting the establishment and deployment of necessary frameworks.
• Ensure processes are in place to capture and share best practices and operational experiences, supporting business strategy and defining specific processes and tools.
• Set goals and objectives for team members to achieve operational results.
• Ensure policies, practices, and procedures are understood and followed.
• Develop the team and build the capacity required by the strategic plan.

Your background

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• Knowledge of substation technology AIS and GIS.
• Excellent communication, negotiation, and interpersonal abilities.
• Strategic thinker with problem-solving skills.
• It is an advantage with experience from the energy sector.
• Fluent in Norwegian and English, both spoken and written.

Applications are assessed continuously. We look forward to receiving your application through our recruitment portal.

Questions about the position can be directed to Odd Lekva by email; odd.lekva@hitachienergy.com.

We only process applications that are registered electronically with relevant attachments.

Hitachi Energy manages critical infrastructure and follows guidelines and statutory security requirements from Norwegian authorities in our recruitment processes.

Please note that, in collaboration with Meditor AS, we conduct background checks on all candidates offered employment at Hitachi Energy Norway, as well as suitability assessments pursuant to the Energy Act.

It is assumed that the candidate provides relevant information for assessing the candidate's security suitability, etc.

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Client-provided location(s): Oslo, Norway

Job ID: Hitachi_Energy-JID3-146923

Employment Type: FULL_TIME

Posted: 2025-07-26T23:36:44