Team Lead - GIS Structural Steel

Role overview

Team Lead - GIS Structural Steel at Hitachi Energy

Responsibilities

• Contribute to Hitachi Energy's mission of delivering reliable, sustainable, and modern energy solutions worldwide.
• Provide technical leadership by resolving engineering challenges, supporting R&D activities, and managing customer and site-related escalations.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives using Lean Six Sigma (L6S) methodologies and collaborate with quality teams to identify and implement root-cause solutions.
• Develop team capabilities through coaching, mentoring, training, and performance management to build world-class engineering expertise.
• Implement business unit strategies and foster collaboration across global teams while promoting safety, quality, cost efficiency, and customer satisfaction.

Preferred qualifications and skills

• Advanced proficiency in STAAD, Idea StatiCA, and ETABS; knowledge of ANSYS and Tekla or other 3D modeling tools is highly desirable.

Employment details

• Location: Chennai [Tamil Nadu] [India]

About the employer

• The opportunity: Lead and build a high-performing GIS Steel Structural Engineering team within Hitachi Energy's Indian Operations Centre (INOPC).
• 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 .

Additional role details

• Play a key role in establishing INOPC as a global center of excellence for GIS structural engineering, supporting the Switzerland GIS Production Unit.
• Drive engineering strategy, innovation, continuous improvement, and operational excellence across global projects.
• How You'll Make an Impact Lead a team of Project Lead Engineers to successfully execute GIS customer projects in partnership with Swiss engineering teams and Technical Project Managers.
• Ensure high-quality, on-time delivery of structural engineering designs, calculations, detailing, and project documentation.
• Responsible to ensure compliance with applicable external and internal regulations, procedures, and guidelines.
• Your Background Bachelor's or master's degree in civil engineering with 10-15 years of experience in steel structural engineering, preferably in GIS or substation projects.
• Proven experience leading engineering teams and delivering complex projects in a global environment.
• Strong expertise in structural analysis, steel design, Finite Element Modeling (FEM), detailing, fabrication support, and international engineering codes and standards (Euro and American codes).
• Strong leadership, communication, conflict resolution, cross-cultural collaboration, strategic thinking, coaching, and people management skills.
• Familiarity with Lean Six Sigma, process improvement methodologies, and tools such as Adonis, xECM, and MS Office applications.
• Knowledge of GIS/electrical substations and structural requirements is an added advantage.
• Willingness to travel occasionally based on project or operating unit requirements