Vacant Roles at Hitachi Energy

What you’ll be doing

• At Hitachi, we embrace diversity and foster a collaborative environment where every individual’s uniqueness is valued. Our inclusive culture drives innovation and supports our mission to contribute positively to society.
• With a workforce representing a wide range of nationalities, languages, and backgrounds, we are better equipped to understand and meet the needs of our customers, partners, and communities, fueling innovation and sustainable business growth.

The role will also be responsible for:

Global Culture Program Support

• Support the global Cultural initiatives
• Coordinate the Global Cultural awareness workshop deployment
• Monitor licence utilisation and deployment
• Consolidate regional data (including Japan) into monthly global reports.

​​​​​​​Workshop Lifecycle Management

Pre-Workshop

• Monitor registrations and optimise class sizes (20+)
• Issue preparation communications and meeting invitations
• Confirm attendance
• Set up Mentimeter/Teams polls (as required)

​​​​​​​Workshop Delivery

• Manage live polls and breakout rooms
• Monitor chat and Q&A during sessions

​​​​​​​Post-Workshop

• Update training registers
• Re-engage no-shows
• Produce post-workshop reports and follow-up communications.

​​​​​​​EMEA DOI Enablement

• Support deployment of DOI initiatives (e.g., Inclusive leadership Workshops and Cultural Awareness Workshops and priority programmes)
• Maintain EMEA DOI SharePoint and regional communications
• Coordinate Regional Council initiatives
• Support DOI calendar and events.
• Provide operational coverage for the EMEA DOI Leader
• Manage DOI projects, research, and administration.

​​​​​​​Global DOI Communications

• Develop social-media-style content for internal DOI engagement
• Curate short-form video and digital assets from global content
• Support DOI newsletters and campaigns
• Maintain global DOI SharePoint
• Support global communications and engagement initiatives

​​​​​​​What you bring to the team

• We’re looking for a team player, who is motivated by delivering great work and the Hitachi vision. The role will be a mixture of remote-hybrid work with days in the Hitachi Office. This role is open for candidates based in Poland (Krakow/Warsaw) and South Africa (Johannesburg).

The ideal candidate will possess the following skills and background:

• Experience: 1-3 years post qualification working in Diversity, Opportunity & Inclusion (DOI), Human Resources, or related fields, with a strong motivation to contribute to this role.
• Communication Skills: Excellent verbal and written communication abilities to engage effectively across diverse teams and regions.
• Cross-Regional Collaboration: Proven ability to work collaboratively with stakeholders across multiple regions and cultures.
• Digital and Social Engagement: Competence in creating and managing digital content and social media-style communications to drive engagement.
• AI-Enabled Work Practices: Familiarity with AI tools and productivity technologies to enhance efficiency and innovation.
• Data-Informed Reporting: Ability to generate insightful reports and analyses to support decision-making and program improvements.

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Job Description:

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.