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Description

The Opportunity

• Join us as a Tender & Service Specialist and play a key role in managing the complete lifecycle of service-related projects. This role connects sales and operations—identifying and bidding for engineering service contracts (quotations/tenders) and, once secured, leading the smooth technical execution, resource scheduling, and financial closure of each service order.

How You’ll Make an Impact

• Quotations & Tender Management (Pre‑Award)
• Sales Team Interface: Support the Service Sales team with presales preparation.
• Technical Scoping: Review RFQs/RFPs to define the Scope of Work (SoW), technical specifications, and resource requirements.
• Cost Estimation: Prepare cost estimates for labour, parts, subcontractors, and travel.
• Bid Compilation: Compile the complete tender pack, ensuring full compliance with B‑BBEE, Tax Clearance, COID, and all technical returnables.
• Vendor Liaison: Source and compare supplier quotations for specialized components.
• Service Coordination & Execution (Post‑Award)
• Project Kick-off: Convert approved quotations into Service Orders/Job Cards within the ERP system.
• Resource Scheduling: Coordinate with the Service Operations Manager to dispatch and schedule field service technicians or engineers, ensuring they are equipped with the appropriate tools and PPE.
• Logistics Management: Monitor procurement and delivery timelines to ensure required parts are available and downtime is minimized.
• Compliance Oversight: Ensure safety files and fitness certificates comply with OHS requirements.
• Client Management: Act as the primary point of contact for client updates, variations, and progress communications.
• Financial & Administrative Closure
• WIP Tracking: Track Work in Progress to ensure service execution aligns with quoted margins.
• Invoicing: Facilitate sign-off of Job Cards/Timesheets and initiate final invoicing after successful commissioning or handover.
• Reporting: Maintain a Win/Loss tender register and prepare Execution Efficiency reports for the Service Unit.
• Compliance: Ensure adherence to internal and external regulations, HSE policies, and quality standards.
• Leadership & Teamwork: Demonstrate strong collaboration and a disciplined approach to delivering accurate, high‑quality results.
• Core Values: Uphold Hitachi Energy’s values of safety and integrity—taking responsibility for actions while supporting colleagues and the business.

​​​​​​​Your Background

• A bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering or equivalent experience.
• 3–5 years’ experience in an engineering services environment, with proven expertise in bid and tender compilation.
• Ability to interpret engineering drawings and schematics and compile accurate Bills of Quantities (BoQs).
• Advanced MS Excel skills, with working knowledge of MS Project and ERP systems (e.g., SAP Ariba).
• Familiarity with PPPFA regulations (80/20 and 90/10) and South African B‑BBEE codes.
• Strong deadline management and the ability to shift effectively between sales‑focused and logistics‑focused tasks.
• Willingness to travel across assigned countries as required.
• Proficiency in spoken and written English.

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Description

The Opportunity

• We are seeking a motivated and enthusiastic Sales & Marketing Specialist to join our team. In this role, you will work closely with the Service Sales Manager to generate opportunities, secure profitable sales, and deliver exceptional customer value.
• Your focus will be on Installed Base (IB) penetration and promoting the full-Service Product portfolio in collaboration with other service units.
• You will play a key role in building long‑term customer relationships, responding quickly to customer needs, and shaping innovative solutions.
• If you're proactive, driven, and ready to thrive in a dynamic environment, this is an excellent opportunity to make a meaningful impact.

How You’ll Make an Impact

• Prepare proposals, quotations, and competitive bids with accurate technical and commercial inputs.
• Drive proactive and reactive sales for High Voltage and Transformer service portfolios.
• Evaluate client requirements, assess commercial terms, and propose techno‑commercial solutions.
• Manage the tendering process, pricing strategies, and risk reviews in coordination with the Service Sales Manager.
• Maintain project pipelines, forecasts, and documentation using Hitachi Energy tools.
• Build and maintain strong customer relationships, respond promptly to issues, and represent the customer’s voice internally.
• Identify new market opportunities and develop strategic sales plans.
• Support marketing initiatives, product launches, and customer meetings.
• Ensure compliance with internal and external regulations, HSE policies, and quality standards.
• Demonstrate leadership, teamwork, and a disciplined approach to delivering accurate and timely results.
• You will be responsible for ensuring compliance with applicable external and internal regulations, procedures, and guidelines.
• Living Hitachi Energy’s core values safety and integrity, which means taking responsibility for your own actions while caring for your colleagues and the business.

Your Background

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering or equivalent experience.
• 5 to 10 years of experience in service sales, estimation, bids, and proposals, with strong customer relationship skills.
• Proven understanding of Hitachi Energy systems and products.
• Experience within the Energy sector.
• Strong commercial, technical, and negotiation capabilities.
• Ability to work independently with a strategic, results‑oriented approach.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Willingness to travel across assigned countries as required.
• Proficiency in spoken and written English.

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Description

The opportunity

• We are seeking a motivated and enthusiastic Finance Intern to join our team. In this role, you are responsible for the day-to-day financial activities of the organization including controlling its financial resources and ensuring that all financial transactions, systems and procedures comply with regulations, accounting principles, and standards.

How you’ll make an impact            

• Financial analyzing and reporting, taxation, insurance, credit control, accounts payable and receivable, inventory and cost control, and budgeting and forecasting
• Analyzing the organization's revenues, liabilities, credit conditions, and other financial indicators to forecast its short, medium, and long-term cash flow position
• Evaluating and recommending investments and other financial instruments to meet cash flow needs
• Advising management on financial matters and the impact of laws and regulations on the organization
• Providing expertise and advice to managers to help them develop budgets, understand financial reports, and manage their financial responsibilities
• Presenting findings and recommendations to top executives; preparing financial reports that may include auditor and financial analyst reports, profit and loss, balance sheets, and regulatory reports and filings
• Ensuring all tax returns, declarations, and other required reports are submitted accurately and on time
• Selecting and managing relationships with consultants and advisors to ensure satisfactory standards of service
• Work is routine or follows standard procedures and closely supervised. Communicates information that requires little explanation or interpretation.
• You will be responsible for ensuring compliance with applicable external and internal regulations, procedures, and guidelines.
• Living Hitachi Energy’s core values safety and integrity, which means taking responsibility for your own actions while caring for your colleagues and the business.

Your background

• A bachelor’s degree in relevant field.
• 0-1 years of experience.
• Proficiency in both spoken & written English is required.

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Description

The opportunity

• We are seeking a motivated and enthusiastic Lead Design Engineer to join our team. In this role, you will be coordinating project engineering activities - preparation and review of project engineering deliverables, monitoring of contractual scope, variation & change orders initiation, technical discussions, liaising with all stake holders on technical matters, monitoring engineering effort for projects and tenders etc.

Your responsibilities:

• Coordinating with other engineering disciplines substation projects and tenders.
• Coordinating with internal and external stakeholder for scheduled progress of projects and tenders.
• Reviewing of equipment specification and BOQ for supplier enquiries, technical offer review, monitoring and coordination of supplier deliverables, resolution of technical issues during FAT etc.
• Following the engineering processes, change management, risk and opportunities management and other relevant processes during project execution and tendering.
• Coordinating with customer/consultant for document approvals as per project schedule.
• Coordinating with site team for technical matters during installation, testing and commissioning, punch point closure etc.  
• You will be responsible for ensuring compliance with applicable external and internal regulations, procedures, and guidelines.
• Living Hitachi Energy core values of safety and integrity, which means taking responsibility for your own actions while caring for your colleagues and the business.

Your background

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering.
• Able to assess the knowledge and expertise of Risk Management process and HE Framework and Tool.
• Detailed domain expertise in one of the domains (either primary or secondary) is a must. The candidate must have the knowledge of other domains for effectively monitoring and supervising the regular project engineering activities.
• Primary engineering of GIS and AIS substation, layouts, earthing, cabling, lightning protection, sizing calculations, BOQ estimation, RFQ, supplier offer verification, FAT, MV system etc.
• Secondary engineering of GIS and AIS substation, protection, relay panels, LCCs, SCADA/RTU/SCMS etc., FMS/DFR, Telecom, control cabling, CT/VT sizing, sizing calculations, BOQ estimation, RFQ, supplier offer verification, FAT, MV system etc.
• Engineering of Auxiliaries of GIS & AIS substations, LV AC boards, service/auxiliary transformers, earthing transformers, DC system - batteries and battery chargers, UPS, inverter, security system, CCTV, access control, EPABX, sizing calculations, BOQ estimation, RFQ, supplier offer verification, FAT, etc.
• Experience of coordination with civil and MEP disciplines in the substation, inputs for civil and MEP engineering, interfaces, coordination check with civil & MEP services etc.
• Experience of preparing BOQ, deviation list, clarifications, technical proposal for tenders and customer enquiries for firm and budgetary tenders.
• Understanding of installation, testing and commissioning requirements to effectively support the preparation of testing protocol, site activities.
• Minimum 10 years of work experience is required of which 3-4 years of experience in a lead role is preferred.
• Proficiency in both spoken & written English.