Vacant Openings at Hitachi Energy

Description

This is a fully remote, strategic leadership role with global visibility and six indirect reports.

• We're seeking a seasoned cybersecurity professional to take ownership of our Cybersecurity Application Assessment Service, an essential part of our global security strategy. In this role, you'll drive innovation, lead a team of external
• experts, and collaborate across IT, legal, and governance functions to strengthen our cybersecurity posture and ensure application compliance with international regulations. If you're ready to make a meaningful impact and shape the future of digital security, we’d love to hear from you.

 What You'll Do:

• Lead and manage a team of external cybersecurity experts, ensuring high-quality service delivery
• Provide expert guidance on cybersecurity across IT and business initiatives
• Ensure compliance with global regulations (NIS 2, EU AI Act, CFIUS)
• Oversee application onboarding, RFP responses, and tool integrations
• Improve security assessment processes and ServiceNow workflows
• Collaborate with IT, Legal, Governance, and Security teams
• Maintain documentation and knowledge systems for assessments and compliance
• Own and manage assessment solutions
• Plan budgets, resources, and strategic development of the service

What You Bring:

• 10+ years of experience in IT or Cybersecurity, including 3–5 years in a leadership role
• Strong proficiency in ServiceNow (workflows, dashboards, reporting)
• Familiarity with tools such as OneTrust, Tenable, Lansweeper, Axonius, Azure DevOps, and Power BI
• Solid understanding of cybersecurity frameworks (NIST CF 2, NIST RM, CIS, UCF)
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
• Relevant certifications (e.g., ITIL Foundation, CISSP) are a plus

What We Offer:

• A fully remote position with global visibility
• Strategic ownership of a high-impact cybersecurity service
• Collaboration with top experts across departments
• A culture that values innovation, autonomy, and continuous improvement
• Benefits will be tailored based on the candidate’s country of employment and discussed during the selection process

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Description

The opportunity

• We are seeking a motivated and enthusiastic Project Manager Transformers to join our team. In this role you will be responsible for multiple projects for all projects stages.
• You will be leading the project team, establishing the project execution approach and oversee project hand-over, execution planning, monitoring and control activities for both internal and external resources to accomplish all project goals.

How you’ll make an impact            

• Driving the formal acceptance of the project, contract close-out and its acknowledgement by the customer.
• Acting as the key contact for the customer and an escalation point for project issues.
• Building and maintaining strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Ensuring the project follows and complies with company health, safety, and environmental policies.
• Defining all project plan documents, including scope and financial plans, schedule and risk management plans.
• Ensuring that the project follows execution best practices and Hitachi Energy policies.
• Monitoring and controlling project progress and efficient resource utilization, project financials, overseeing projects invoicing status, cost, expenses and cash flow.
• Identify, qualify, quantify and manage project risks.
• Ensuring that the project is formally closed out as contractually agreed.
• Coaching and providing feedback for project staff.
• Organizing customer acceptance of transformers and working on removing defects in customer complaints.
• Supervising shipment, transport of the transformer from the plant to the customer and installation at the transformer assembly site.
• 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 or master’s degree in electrical/energy engineering.
• The PMP Certificate is an advantage.
• More than 5 – 10 years of experience in Project Management or Project Controlling in a transformer manufacturing industry.
• Experience with project management in the energy sector/Substations.
• Knowledge of MS Office and MS Project.
• Basic knowledge of SAP is beneficial.
• Ability to read technical drawings and documentations.
• Proactive, result-oriented individual with excellent interpersonal and teamwork skill as well as reliability and ability to work under pressure
• You are a real organizational talent, you have an analytical attitude, and you have good communication skills commercial insight and negotiation skills
• No objection to occasional travel abroad.
• Knowledge of various contracts (NEC3, FIDIC, etc)
• Proficiency in both spoken & written English is required.

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The opportunity

• Reporting to Technical Lead as telecommunications, you are responsible for acting as an engineer (design authority) for Telecommunication Projects on assignments varying in engineering complexity.
• Engineering discipline leads to small projects or portions of larger projects, completing engineering assignments efficiently and cost-effectively and in accordance with contract specifications, quality standards, and safety requirements and the role includes oversight of the manufacturing process and includes commissioning and handover of the final project or product.

How you’ll make an impact  

• Technical contributions such as creating the engineering design concept or philosophy definition. Evaluating, selecting and applying standard techniques, procedures and criteria to perform engineering assignments. Reviewing and approving design deliverables for telecommunication engineering and acting as the technical lead with the client. Providing technical support for testing, installation and commissioning activities.
• Sales assist in creating proposals for engineering projects or programs through provision of bills of materials and estimated engineering hours for own discipline.
• Contract management as supporting Contract Managers in issuing claims.
• Planning and control as creating work plans and cost estimates for work in own area of responsibility and proactively manages this work to deliver the agreed program on time, on quality and at the targeted cost.
• Risk and opportunity management as ensuring completion of risk and opportunity assessments and the implementation of resulting actions for own projects and reporting early on any contract/quality/program/cost issues to management.
• Customer as acting as the Hitachi Energy technical lead for telecommunication engineering on a project. Interacting with customers and officials, contractors, and others. Attending project meetings and presenting specific aspects of engineering assignments. Ensuring that Hitachi Energy is presented as a professional organization in all interactions with the customer.
• Supply chain management as collaborating with the Supply Chain function to ensure that the technical requirements for equipment or services are communicated and agreed with potential suppliers and providing technical evaluation of supplier proposals.
• Processes and tools as accepting as fit for purpose supplied equipment or services and using standard processes and tools applicable to own area.
• 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 is preferred.
• ECSA registered candidate or better.
• Experience in Telecommunication Systems including Fixed Line Fiber and Copper Networks
• Wireless Networks, IP Networking proficiency required.
• TDM Network Experience (SDH/PDH), MPLT-TP Knowledge and experience as project management is required.
• Proficiency in both spoken & written English language is required.

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The opportunity

• You as a Senior Project Engineer will be part of Hitachi Energy business based in Modderfontein, 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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The opportunity

• Act as commissioning leads 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.

How you’ll make an impact            

• Manages the commissioning activities to ensure quality and timely delivery within targeted costs. Ensure implementation design changes in commissioning and the production of as built project documentation. Supports continuous improvement of project process/product/system design.
• Sales support assisting in creation and presentation of proposals for engineering projects or programs (provision of bills of material, estimated engineering hours etc.).
• Supporting Contract Managers in issuing claims (new scope of work, cost impact, time impact, risk quantifications etc.) and ensuring adherence to safety standards in responsibility and mitigation of potential risks.
• Creating work plans and cost estimates in one’s area of responsibility and managing the implementation of the commissioning plan. Improves effectiveness of work plans in collaboration with other functions.
• Conducting 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 and conducting Safety Observation tour
  regularly to report and mitigate potential HSE hazards.
• Customer Leads and coordinates commissioning activities focused on finalizing customer acceptance certification.
  interacting 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 and attends project meetings and presents specific aspects of commissioning.
• Managing external organizations to ensure availability of commissioning equipment, systems or services. Provides technical guidance to ensure tools/systems meet required specifications.
• Develop coaches and provide technical guidance to colleagues in the assigned business unit. Gives feedback to the organization to apply lessons learned process.
• Processes and tools create 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.
• Guides and assign task to engineers, technicians and administrative staff. May manage small project teams.
• 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 a relevant field is preferred.
• Minimum 4 years of experience in relevant industry is required.
• Proficiency in both spoken & written English language is required.

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The opportunity

• You as a Project Engineer – Protection will be part of Hitachi Energy business based in Johannesburg, South Africa. Designing engineering of Substation control and protection systems leading up to site commissioning to ensure projects are executed in accordance with Hitachi Energy procedures, contract specifications and schedule commitments, quality standards, health, safety & environment requirements.

How you’ll make an impact

• Developing together with the project core team the protection and control concepts for transmission and distribution substations in line with customer specification.
• Developing protection and control IEDs configuration in line with customer specification and approved detailed designs.
• Developing testing procedures to perform factory acceptance testing in conjunction with the customer to prove functionality of the designs.
• Specification and sizing of control cabling with cable schedule design. Provide support to the commissioning team during installation and commissioning stages of the project.
• Working closely with and provide progress information to Project Managers to ensuring timely delivery of all project milestones. Timely report to Project managers any current and potential issues that may affect the program or cost.
• Management of quality of total engineering efforts on projects.
• Ensuring lessons learned from all execution are analyzed and conclusions are incorporated as continuous improvement actions.
• 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.
• Providing sales and tendering support.
• Attending site clarification meetings and perform site visits.
• Must be eligible to travel internationally.
• 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 electrical engineering or National diploma (coupled with extensive related experience) is required.
• Minimum of 6 to 10 years working experience in power systems protection and control environment.
• General knowledge of Control / RTU Systems, Switchgear, Transformers, Substation and Power Stations and commissioning.
• Good Technical knowledge of Power Systems protection and control.
• ECSA registration will be advantageous.
• Have a good communication and interpersonal skills and self-motivated analytical thinker with high level of creativity.
• Able to work under pressure, handle stress, and to use own initiative and must be willing to work from time to time after hours to complete tenders.
• Excellent technical report writing skills.
• Proficiency in both spoken & written English language is required.

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The Opportunity

• Responsible for system solution sales of Automation and Communication (AC) business within Power Grid Automation BU in accordance with strategy. Build long term customer relationships and manage resolution to specific customer needs and issues.

How you’ll make an impact:

• You will support and grow Sales within Automation (Substation Protection and Control) and Communication in Southern Africa, supporting full sales process from Promotion, Product Homologation, support distributor channel development and direct sales to the market. You will create added value for the customer and Hitachi Energy and ensures the successful outcome of transactions, contracts and proposals by using effective sales techniques, communicate details in accordance with Hitachi Energy offering and strategy.
• You will prepare sales plans using company tools, perform regular status reviews and propose recovery plan(s) in cases of potential order shortfalls, identify Sales opportunities and use CRM tool to record and share, lead direct relation or communication with customers and lead negotiation.
• You will ensure most competitive offer taking into account the market situation and customer’s conditions, identify which approach (e.g. direct sales, consortium, or channel) can be applied to better serve the customer, support bid/no bid analyses and decisions and participate in project risk review processes. You will involve in - external: direct relations with customers, Channel partners, Distributors, and internal: Account managers, Bid and Proposal team, Solution line specialists, Country and Regional management.
• You will be leading, drive and hold yourself accountable for the highest standards of health, safety and environment to ensure Zero Harm is achieved, responsible for compliance with relevant HSE policy and procedures, ensuring proactive risk assessments take place and corrective actions monitored/followed up.
• 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:

• You hold degree/diploma or equivalent in Electrical Engineering.
• More than 5-8 Years of experience in technical sales role and having knowledge and understanding on Grid Automation (Automation and communication) portfolios
• Experience across Electrical Industry within Utilities, Power T&D or Power Systems projects, especially in Substation Automation & Communication is an advantage.
• Advanced computer skills across MS Office, MS Teams, Outlook, SharePoint.
• Expresses opinions, able to work with multiple stakeholders and positions.
• We are looking for experienced, self-motivated, and reliable team player with an independent and result oriented working style, as well as strong communicative and collaborative skills.
• Able to work independently and collaborate in a team set up.
• You consider yourself to be an energetic, supportive, and self-confident person who can handle both ups and downs and manage problems that may occur.
• Proficiency in both spoken & written English language is required.