Job Opportunities at Hitachi Energy

The opportunity

• We are seeking a motivated and enthusiastic HSE Specialist to join our team. In this role, you will play a critical role in ensuring the health, safety, and environmental compliance of all operations.
• Your responsibilities will include developing and implementing robust HSE policies and practices to identify and mitigate hazards in manufacturing and maintenance activities.
• You will lead initiatives to foster a proactive safety culture, ensure compliance with local regulations and international standards, and support the factory’s sustainability and carbon neutrality goals.

How you’ll make an impact           

• Conducting inspections, safety observation tours, and audits across production lines, assembly areas, and maintenance workshops.
• Ensuring and monitoring HSE legal requirements on regular basis with all the legal authorities
• Preparing the fire risk assessment and operational plan and good knowledge about the fire pump station and fire protection equipment.
• Supporting businesses in meeting the HSE KPIs, develop and drive HSE strategic actions
• Implementing and maintaining the HSE Management System aligned with ISO 14001, ISO 45001, and Hitachi Energy global standards.
• Managing change and risk assessment and environmental aspect and impact assessment.
• Performing risk assessments (ABRA) and LSR self-assessments for all factory operations, including electrical and mechanical processes.
• Providing technical guidance on machinery safety compliance and support implementation of Machinery Safety Standards.
• Compiling all NCs, prepare corrective action and follow up for closure of NCRs.
• Providing advice and training on safety protocols and conducting audits to ensure compliance with organization and government standards related to environmental and employee health and safety.
• Leading initiatives for hazardous materials management, including preparing manifests for disposal and ensuring compliance with environmental regulations.
• Delivering induction and job-specific HSE training for employees and contractors according to the training calendar.
• Investigating incidents and near misses, prepare detailed reports, and drive correct and preventive actions.
• Promoting employee engagement and safety awareness campaigns to strengthen the safety culture.
• Supporting the factory’s carbon neutrality program and sustainability objectives.
• 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.
• 10-12 years of work experience within relevant fields.
• Proficiency in Project management methodologies
• Demonstrated expertise in managing budgets, schedules and cross functional teams
• Exceptional communication, negotiation and problem-solving skills
• PMP certification.
• Proficiency in both spoken & written in English language is required.

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Job 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 Support: Assist the Service Sales team with presales preparation.
• Technical Scoping: Review RFQs/RFPs to define the Scope of Work, technical specs, and resource needs.
• Costing: Prepare cost estimates for labour, materials, subcontractors, and travel.
• Bid Preparation: Compile complete tender submissions, ensuring compliance with B‑BBEE, Tax Clearance, COID, and all technical requirements.
• Supplier Coordination: Source and compare quotations for specialized components.

​​​​​​​Service Coordination & Execution (Post‑Award)

• Project Kick‑off: Convert approved quotations into Service Orders/Job Cards in the ERP system.
• Resource Scheduling: Coordinate with the Service Operations Manager to dispatch and schedule field technicians/engineers with the required tools and PPE.
• Logistics: Track procurement and delivery timelines to ensure parts are available and downtime is reduced.
• Client Communication: Serve as the main contact for client updates, variations, and progress reporting.

​​​​​​​Financial & Administrative Closure

• WIP Tracking: Monitor Work in Progress to ensure service delivery aligns with quoted margins.
• Invoicing: Coordinate Job Card/Timesheet sign‑off and initiate invoicing after successful commissioning or handover.
• Reporting: Maintain the Win/Loss tender register and prepare Execution Efficiency reports for the Service Unit.
• Compliance: Ensure adherence to internal policies, external regulations, HSE requirements, and quality standards.
• Values: Uphold Hitachi Energy’s commitment to safety and integrity, taking responsibility for actions and supporting colleagues and the business.

​​​​​​​Your Background

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering or equivalent relevant experience.
• 3–5 years’ experience in an engineering services environment, with demonstrated skill in bid and tender compilation.
• Ability to interpret engineering drawings and schematics and develop accurate Bills of Quantities (BoQs).
• Advanced MS Excel proficiency, plus 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 switch effectively between sales‑related and logistics‑focused tasks.
• Willingness to travel across assigned countries when required.
• Proficiency in spoken and written English.

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Job 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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Job Description:

• Mission Statement: Act as commissioning lead for medium to high complex projects.
• Ensure completion of all commissioning activities efficiently and cost-effectively and in accordance with contract specifications, quality standards, and safety requirements.

Main Accountabilities:

Technical contribution

• Manages the commissioning activities to ensure quality, timely delivery within targeted costs.
• Ensures implementation design changes in commissioning and the production of as built project documentation.
• Supports continuous improvement of project process/product/system design.

Sales support Assists in creation and presentation of proposals for engineering projects or programs (provision of bills of material, estimated engineering hours etc.).

Contract management

• Supports Contract Managers in issuing claims (new scope of work, cost impact, time impact, risk quantifications etc.).
• Ensures adherence to safety standards in the area of responsibility and mitigation of potential risks.

Planning and control

• Creates work plans and cost estimates in one’s area of responsibility.
• Manages the implementation of the commissioning plan.
• Improves effectiveness of work plans in collaboration with other functions.

Risk and opportunity management

• Conducts risk and opportunity assessments during commissioning phase to ensure implementation of commissioning plan, identifies & reports potential risks related to contract/quality/program/cost and recommends resolutions to management.
• Initiates and monitors risk mitigation plan in own area of responsibility and ensures stakeholders are updated on associated technical risks.
• Conducts Safety Observation tour regularly to report and mitigate potential HSE hazards.

Customer Leads and coordinates commissioning activities focused on finalizing customer acceptance certification.

• Interacts with customers and external providers for approval of plant acceptance criteria, open issues closure and performance tests.
• Identifies and introduces new effective engineering solutions to meet business and customer needs.
• Attends project meetings and presents specific aspects of commissioning.

Supply chain management

• Manages external organizations to ensure availability of commissioning equipment, systems or services.
• Provides technical guidance to ensure tools/systems meet required specifications.

Technical leadership and development

• Develops, coaches and provides technical guidance to colleagues in assigned business unit.
• Gives feedbacks to the organization to apply lessons learned process.

Processes and tools Creates standard processes and tools.

• Ensures that all commissioning activities comply with the required safety regulations and contractual requirements.
• Identifies, introduces and promotes processes and tools in one’s area of responsibility to increase productivity.
• Analyzes data and prepares reports to ensure on-contract delivery.

People leadership and development

• Guides and assigns task to engineers, technicians and administrative staff. May manage small project teams.

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Job Description:

The opportunity

• We are seeking a motivated and enthusiastic Application Engineer to join our team. In this role you will be bringing the knowledge of a senior specialist in our Transformers portfolio to Customers, ensuring mutual trust while also communicating with customers on technical preferences, imparting training and presenting Hitachi Energy transformer solutions.
• You will be leading the regional business development and sales of Transformer solutions including digitalization, covering whole digital portfolio, tracking the market trends, and securing the anticipated growth impact.
• You will be developing and implementing a regional sales strategy aligned with global strategy to increase customer penetration through engagement with Front End teams, distribution channel and through promotion of Digital and Sustainable Transformer solutions.

How you’ll make an impact            

• Adopting and supporting global transformer strategy and portfolio deployments in the HUB to Customers and Hitachi Energy with focus on
• Contributing to bringing short, medium & long-term results via support to the sales and execution teams in a cradle to grave approach. Includes activity at Customer pre-tender/conceptual stage, Customer specification development, tender strategy development, technical tender clarification, order execution technical support, problem resolution and clarification, FAT support and post-delivery technical issue resolution.
• Establishing and demonstrating industry leading business and technical knowledge leadership by organizing and conducting technical trainings / webinars / presentations via both Hitachi Energy and industry platforms.
• Including and translating the knowledge of previous transformer design experience into Customer relevant knowledge.
• Leading the regional Application Engineering & Business Development activities related for the transformer portfolio by
• Understanding Market Trends and secure the anticipated growth impact.
• Fulfilling the Customer facing dimensions, activities shall include organizing and conducting Customer Technical Trainings (CTT’s), attending industry conferences, customer visits, specification influencing recommendations & reviews, tender negotiation clarification, off cycle technical and knowledge support to customer contacts.
• Fulfilling the internal Hitachi Energy facing dimensions, activities shall include internal technical training (HIIT’s) and Customer relationship presentations, tender strategy & negotiation recommendations. Engage factory and tender engineering teams to
• Developing and deploying trust, acceptance and team integration, Customer support during FAT, post order problem solving.
• Developing and implementing KPI’s and targets for the Transformer portfolio to provide visibility of  activity  and outcomes in the dimensions listed above. The metrics for her/his performance review might include the number of CTT’s, HIIT’s, specifications influenced.
• Contributing to and following a structured market plan combining the technical info gathered with customers’ while deploying a strategic overview mindset.
• Ensuring that all Customer interactions are reported in SFDC and pursuing its support by the M&S team of Hub.
• Ability to develop one’s own technical presentations, additionally use colleagues and BL technical presentations supported by underlying deep understanding of the topics.
• The regional Application Engineering & Business Development activities related to the transformer portfolio by understanding Market
• Trends and secure the anticipated growth and have positive impact on ROMI.
• Fulfilling the Customer facing dimensions, activities shall include organizing and conducting Customer Technical Trainings (CTT’s), attending industry conferences, customer visits, specification influencing recommendations & reviews, tender negotiation clarification, off cycle technical and knowledge support to customer contacts.
• Fulfilling the internal Hitachi Energy facing dimensions, activities shall include internal technical training (HIIT’s) and Customer relationship presentations, tender strategy & negotiation recommendations. Engage factory and tender engineering teams to develop and deploy trust, acceptance and team integration, Customer support during FAT, post order problem solving.
• Developing and implementing KPI’s and targets for the Transformer portfolio to provide visibility of activity and outcomes in the dimensions listed above. The metrics for her/his performance review might include the number of CTT’s, HIIT’s, specifications influenced.
• Contributing to and following a structured market plan combining the technical info gathered with customers while deploying a strategic overview mindset.
• Ensuring that all Customer interactions are reported in SFDC and pursue its support by the M&S team of Hub.
• Ability to develop one’s own technical presentations, additionally use colleagues and BL technical presentations supported by underlying deep understanding of the topics.
• Deep understanding of all transformer portfolio for different segments and applications and will support from
• a technical knowledge point of view the WCFE Team for the Marketing and Sales activities of the HUB and represents the interests of the GPG/BL in the given Country/Region.
• Providing customer feedback as well as strategic marketing inputs to GPG / GPMM and supporting the market analysis validation and competitive landscape and heat maps.
• Supporting and engaging closely within Application Engineering teams.
• 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 electrical engineering.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in technical roles like transformer design, technical interaction, directly with Customers in a tender or order execution capacity. Exposure to the sales and order execution process is a plus.
• Have technical skills in transformers and be able to connect the technical teams to the marketing teams in the Demand countries within the HUB.
• Intercultural sensitivity is required, with colleagues and customers from multi-countries in assigned region with excellent
• Be willing to travel ~ 35%.
• Proficiency in both spoken & written English is required.

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Job Description:

The opportunity

• You as a Senior Project Engineer will be part of Hitachi Energy business based in Modernities, South Africa. A Specialist Professional is a recognized subject matter expert in job area typically obtained through advanced education and work experience.

How you’ll make an impact         

• You will be hands on experience with high voltage protection and control system engineering design including schematics preparation, review of engineering documents, protection relay configuration, testing commissioning or troubleshooting.
• You will be power system, substation and MV/HV switchgear knowledge is an advantage.
• Familiarity with substation automation systems, Remote Terminal Unit (RTU), Programmable Logic Controller (PLC), Gateways will be a key differentiator. Conversant with design tools like AutoCAD or equivalent for substation layouts, cable schedules, wiring and termination charts.
• You will be good verbal and written communication skills are essential, proven ability to handle customer comments and approval responses to support project manager in project engineering is a must.
• Acting as the champion for Hitachi Energy processes and policies, contributes to development of standard processes and work instructions by adopting Hitachi internal as well as industry best practices. Ensures lessons learned from all execution are analyzed and conclusions are incorporated as continuous improvement actions.
• You will be responsible for ensuring 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.

Your background             

• A bachelor’s degree in engineering Major in Electrical or Automation Control or similar field is required.
• Minimum 5 years of hands-on experience in SAS/SCADA domain.
• Knowledge of substation primary equipment & basic protection functions is desirable.
• Behavioral & Leadership Competencies: Deliver Results - Prioritize, Act, Achieve.
• Results orientation - drive to exceed goals & improve business practices for higher performance levels.
• Teamwork & collaboration - actively demonstrate teamwork & facilitate collaboration.
• Act responsibly with safety, Integrity & transparency.
• Proficiency in both spoken & written English and Arabic language is required.

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Job 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.

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Legal Support to Ground Transportation Systems Business:

• Responsible for drafting, negotiating, preparing and managing the contracts to be executed from proposal to completion of projects, including partnerships and supply chain.
• Work closely with operational functions and help in elaborating relevant contractual solutions and identifying contractual, legal and compliance stakes so that risks are detected, measured and mitigated.
• In compliance with the relevant Group policies, the Job Holder will interface with external counsels and law firms for analysis and management of specific legal issues in the framework of complex contractual and/or legal arrangements.
• Provide legal guidance, advise and promote legal awareness.
• Manage Resolution of Disputes and Litigation relying on local law firms.

Corporate Secretariat, Governance & Board Office:

• Provide expertise in local legal and contractual systems related to GTS business activities in South Africa.
• Draft, update, Implement and monitor the Governance rules and delegations of authority/signature in line with Hitachi Rail rules and local laws.
• Perform secretarial responsibilities for corporate bodies (Board(s), General Meeting(s) and Management Meetings including related preparation and documentation.
• Responsible for addressing corporate law, governance and compliance aspects for GTS SA.
• Draft and sign on behalf of shareholders the statutory resolutions required for the compliance of companies with local company laws/regulations.
• Secure the legal sustainability and continuity of GTS SA, particularly to adapt to changes in laws, regulations and succession of management.

Legal Accreditations and Documentation:

• Manage, update, renew and archive legal and contractual documents.
• Monitor the timely updating and renewal of local administrative documents.
• Manage the legal qualification and local legal accreditations of GTS SA to be qualified to perform business and commercial activities in compliance with local regulations (including B-BBEE regulations requirements).

Compliance:

• Be the GTS SA Compliance Officer as defined in applicable instructions.
• Manage trade compliance incl. export control.
• Responsible of the deployment / management of RGPD rules at GTS SA and provide trainings whenever requested.
• Contribute to the implementation of Hitachi Rail Group / GTS ethics & compliance standards, and as such participate notably to the deployment of an ethics & compliance communication and training plan.
• The Job Holder will assist the GTS SA Country Captain in addressing audit reviews (internal and external), corporate law, governance and compliance aspects for the Companies.
• Ensuring GTS SA`s compliance with the Group's / GTS` directives as well as with applicable laws and regulations, including Trade compliance, Competition Laws Compliance, Data Protection Compliance, Anticorruption Compliance.

Litigation management:

• Review, in coordination with relevant GTS / Corporate stakeholders, progress of outstanding litigation and liaise with and manage external lawyers whenever requested.

Knowledge, Skills and Experience:

• A Master's degree will be added advantage
• 2/3+ years of relevant experience in In-house Legal, contracts and commercial management in local and international environment with exposure to Public Procurement contracts, Corporate Laws and Trade compliance.
• Experience in working in a multi-national company
• Experience in Company secretarial works
• Experience in bids and projects in South Africa
• Practice of BBBEE regulations