Team Manager

Job Summary

Lead and inspire a high-performing engineering team to consistently deliver high-quality engineering solutions and project deliverables on time, meeting customer expectations and business objectives.

Responsibilities

• Drive the implementation of engineering processes, tools, quality management systems (QMS), and LOM engineering frameworks, ensuring compliance with global standards and continuous process improvement.
• Foster close collaboration with Operating Units, customers to ensure efficient execution of projects and tenders while promoting engineering excellence and knowledge sharing.
• Develop and maintain project and tender resource forecasts, aligning team capacity with business demand through proactive workforce planning and close coordination with Operating Units Engineering Managers.
• Take ownership of team organization, staffing, competency development, budget planning, and resource utilization to ensure sustainable growth and operational efficiency.
• Monitor project and tender pipelines, anticipate resource requirements, and proactively allocate engineering resources to support business growth and successful project delivery.
• Drive accountability for internal and external KPIs, ensuring engineering performance, quality, schedule adherence, customer satisfaction, and productivity targets are achieved.
• Support project/tendering activities by providing technical leadership, engineering estimates, risk assessments, innovative solutions, and timely delivery of project/tender engineering deliverables.
• Build a strong performance-driven culture through regular coaching, constructive feedback, development planning, and competency enhancement aligned with team and business strategies.
• Identify opportunities for standardization, digitalization, lessons learned implementation, and continuous improvement to enhance engineering efficiency, quality, and customer value.
• Champion employee development through structured training, mentoring, technical knowledge-sharing sessions, and succession planning initiatives.
• Effectively manage daily operational challenges, stakeholder expectations, and conflict situations to maintain a collaborative and productive working environment.
• Lead project scrum, daily and weekly follow-up meetings, and team review sessions to ensure transparency, timely issue resolution, risk mitigation, and alignment with project priorities.
• Promote a culture of safety, quality, collaboration, and continuous learning while enabling the team to deliver innovative and cost-effective solutions.
• You will be responsible to ensure compliance with applicable external and internal regulations, procedures, and guidelines.
• 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.

Qualifications Your background

• Master's degree in Power Systems with 8+ years of experience in a similar leadership role, or Bachelor's degree in Electrical Electronics Engineering with 10+ years of experience in a similar role.
• Strong experience in Substation Project Engineering, with sound understanding of primary, secondary, protection control, communication, cybersecurity, and commissioning aspects of AIS and GIS substations.
• Good knowledge of Hitachi Energy products, systems, engineering processes, and project delivery models, with the ability to translate customer requirements into practical engineering solutions.
• Proven experience in people management, including team leadership, resource planning, performance management, competency development, coaching, and succession planning.
• Demonstrated ability to lead engineering teams delivering projects and tenders while ensuring quality, schedule, cost, and customer satisfaction targets are achieved.