The Engineering Manager at Hitachi Energy Chile S.A. leads and coordinates all engineering activities within the GI unit in Chile, ensuring technical excellence, resource planning, and operational performance. This role provides strategic direction, develops engineering capabilities, oversees outsourcing, and ensures deliverables meet contractual, quality, and on-time requirements while collaborating with project management, operations, supply chain, and global teams.
What You'll Do
- Provides strategic leadership for the engineering function to align execution with business needs, customer expectations, and contractual requirements.
- Drives engineering performance, productivity, and continuous improvement across all activities and projects.
- Oversees engineering planning and delivery for GI projects, ensuring compliance with standards, regulations, and customer specifications.
- Coordinates with Project Management to prioritize technical needs, allocate resources, and resolve engineering issues.
- Manages outsourcing and capacity planning to ensure adequate engineering resources and effective delivery of external work.
- Leads and develops the engineering team, strengthening capabilities, promoting collaboration, and supporting people-development frameworks.
- Ensures process excellence through standardization, knowledge sharing, digitization, and technical representation in customer and stakeholder engagements.
- Responsible for ensuring compliance with applicable external and internal regulations, procedures, and guidelines.
What We're Looking For
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering.
- 7+ years of experience in engineering for power systems, substations, or grid integration projects.
- English level: Intermediate
- Proven experience leading engineering teams or technical functions in a project-driven & disciplined environment.
- Strong understanding of power systems engineering, protection & control, substation design.
- Strong leadership, communication, and stakeholder management abilities.
Benefits & Compensation
- Growth globally
- Continuous improvement culture
- Benefits above the regular market
- Regional scope
Work Mode
Onsite in Santiago, Region Metropolitana de Santiago, Chile
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