Plants Lead Engineer HVDC

As a Plants Lead Engineer, you drive the vision and technical deliverables for HVDC land stations and offshore platforms, ensuring strategic technical decisions for optimal solutions. You coordinate with various departments to oversee the design and placement of equipment, manage auxiliary systems, and ensure quality and process adherence. Additionally, you lead your team, manage technical risks, and represent Plants in customer meetings. Your role is crucial in balancing leadership, technical oversight, and coordination to achieve project success.

How you will make impact:

Be a positive technical leader in your role as a Plants Lead Engineer for your Plants and civil team and drive our vision, technical deliverables and develop people and work close to our Plants project manager, Systems Lead Engineer and Project engineering manager.

Having overall technical understanding and take responsibility of the overall design of Plants and civil for HVDC land stations and/or offshore platform and its interfaces.

Driving our base design, read and understand the customers specification and act strategic technically for the best overall HVDC technical solution.

Technical coordination with Plants own departments: Electromechanical design (overall HVDC station design with placement of equipment in CAD layouts), Station auxiliary power (incl cables between HVDC equipment, auxiliary transformers, diesels, batteries), Civil design and auxiliary systems (incl fire system, climate system, security system)

Lead the team and making sure we follow processes, taking care of technical risks and fulfil the quality and represent Plants in internal and external customer meetings.

Your background:

Bachelor or Master of Science in Engineering.

Several years within energy field, electrical power, electromechanical design, auxiliary power design or civil design for large projects and experience of HVDC technology or similar business as sub stations, high voltage products or offshore wind connections and/or practical experience from site work, installation and/or commissioning is an advantage.

You are an engaged, ambitious, and driven person that thrives in a constantly changing environment and who enjoys collaboration with employees, peers and beyond.

You understand technical topics and can easily understand HVDC, have a strong sense of responsibility, and when needed you are comfortable with taking decisions for your team.

Speaking and writing English fluently is required since you will be part of a global team where you will need to communicate with people from all over the world.

A good command of French (minimum B1 level or equivalent) is required for this role.

As a person you have a passion for people and technology, you are strong in decision making and have the right inner drive and self-management skills to take on full responsibility for your scope.

More about us:

• We offer an inspiring international environment committed to the energy transition.
• We deliver high value‑added projects at the core of major industrial and technological challenges.
• We support your professional development through training, internal mobility, and international opportunities.
• We foster a collaborative and inclusive company culture focused on innovation.
• We provide attractive benefits, including competitive compensation and flexible, hybrid, or remote working options.

Please submit your application in English

Job type Full time

Experience Experienced

Job function Engineering & Science

Contract Regular

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About Hitachi Energy

Hitachi Energy is a global technology leader in electrification, powering a sustainable energy future through innovative power grid technologies with digital at the core. Over three billion people depend on our technologies to power their daily lives.

With over a century in pioneering mission‑critical technologies like high‑voltage, transformers, automation, and power electronics, we are addressing the most urgent energy challenge of our time – balancing soaring electricity demand, while decarbonizing the power system.

Headquartered in Switzerland, we employ over 50,000 people in 60 countries and generate revenues of around $16 billion USD. We welcome you to apply today.