Manager, Substation Automation & Protection Engineering

The Opportunity

Join Hitachi Energy and lead a multidisciplinary engineering team responsible for delivering Protection & Control, substation automation, SCADA, RTU, and telecommunications solutions for utility and industrial customers.

As Manager, Substation Automation & Protection Engineering , you will lead and develop a team of technical professionals responsible for the design and execution of customer projects. You will combine people leadership, technical expertise, project execution, and customer engagement to drive safety, quality, schedule, and financial performance.

This is an opportunity for an experienced engineering leader to help shape technical strategy, develop engineering talent, strengthen execution, and support the continued growth of our automation and power systems business.

How You'll Make an Impact

• Lead, coach, and develop a multidisciplinary team of Protection & Control, Automation, SCADA, RTU, and Telecommunications Engineers.
• Provide technical leadership and oversight throughout project execution, including design reviews, technical problem-solving, and engineering decisions.
• Ensure engineering deliverables meet customer requirements while achieving project quality, schedule, budget, and contractual objectives.
• Partner with Sales and Proposal teams to develop technical solutions, estimate engineering effort, and support customer opportunities.
• Build strong customer relationships through technical meetings, workshops, design reviews, and project discussions.
• Oversee engineering scope, contractual requirements, technical risks, and change management activities.
• Plan and allocate engineering resources to effectively support project and business demand.
• Drive technical risk identification, mitigation planning, and opportunity management.
• Collaborate across Project Management, Supply Chain, Service, Sales, and Operations to support successful project execution.
• Promote technical knowledge sharing, mentoring, standardization, and engineering best practices.
• Lead continuous improvement efforts focused on engineering quality, productivity, standardization, and digital tools.
• Support workforce planning, recruiting, performance management, coaching, and employee development.
• Support engineering budget planning, resource forecasting, and operational performance.
• Foster a culture of collaboration, accountability, technical excellence, customer focus, safety, and integrity.

Your Background

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Automation Engineering, Telecommunications Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Minimum 8 years of engineering experience within power systems, substations, Protection & Control, substation automation, SCADA, communications, or a closely related industry.
• Minimum 5 years of leadership experience managing engineering teams or technical specialists.
• Strong understanding of utility and industrial automation applications.
• Demonstrated ability to lead technical teams while balancing customer, project, schedule, quality, and business requirements.
• Strong communication, organizational, decision-making, and customer-engagement skills.

Preferred Experience

• Technical knowledge of technologies such as IEC 61850, DNP3, Modbus, RTUs, protection relays, SCADA systems, and telecommunications networks.
• Experience supporting electric utility customers across North America.
• Experience leading geographically distributed engineering teams.
• Experience with engineering resource planning, project execution, and technical risk management.
• Experience mentoring engineers and building strong technical teams.

Health, Safety & Integrity

At Hitachi Energy, safety and integrity are fundamental to how we work. In this role, you will help ensure engineering activities comply with applicable health, safety, environmental, and organizational requirements while building a culture in which safety, accountability, and integrity are demonstrated every day.