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Hitachi Energy Grid Integration, North America Power Quality Engineering Early Career Program

At Hitachi Energy, our purpose is to advance a sustainable​ energy future for all. We bring power to our homes, schools, hospitals and factories. Join us and work with fantastic people, while learning and developing yourself on projects that have a real impact on our communities and society. Bring your passion, bring your energy, and be part of a global team that appreciates a simple truth: Diversity + collaboration = Great Innovation.

Position Description:

The Hitachi Energy Grid Integration, North America Power Quality Engineering Early Career Program is an opportunity to fast track your career while leveraging your engineering background. Your engineering skills and capabilities are greatly valued at Hitachi Energy Grid Integration North America, and they will be enhanced by the experiences and exposure provided through our program, propelling your career forward. You’ll understand the power of combining your technical savvy with the right foundational behaviors to enable next level contributions, like growing an enterprise mindset that facilitates productive collaboration with cross-functional teams.

Primary responsibilities:

• Learn about the Grid Integration industry, products, competitors, and operations including our functions.
• Immerse yourself in our Sustainability programs because when it comes to safety, on time delivery, cost of poor quality, zero truly is the goal for our Hitachi Energy Grid Integration.
• Be an open learner, rotating through assignments focused on exposing you to the fundamentals of operational excellence through direct experiences with all the engineering disciplines (System, Electrical, Mechanical, Controls, Studies, Lead Engineering)
• Engineering development: Ensuring that engineering is developed with complete information and that all multidisciplinary information has been included. Leading development of new solutions for complex projects and challenges.
• Support proposal efforts by introducing and promoting innovation, cost saving ideas, and value-added solutions to the overall system design concept.
• Working with different stakeholders, both internal and external, to drive and deliver improvements. Interacting with officials, contractors, and suppliers.
• Completes risk and opportunity assessments and ensures implementation of resulting actions.
• Ensure that all activities are efficiently and cost-effectively executed according to contract specifications, quality standards and safety requirements.
• Challenge yourself to drive change and deliver outcomes through your contributions.
• Coordinate all related tasks and deliver on time and within budget.
• Develop your skills as a future leader who makes time to connect effectively, helps everyone to achieve their potential, magnifies your impact through others, and fuels Hitachi Energy Grid Integration North America as a great place to work.

Based on your experience and background, additional activities within each engineering discipline could involve:

System Design

• Defining the overall technical solutions and requirements for involved main components based on our customer’s technical specifications.
• Your tasks will include main circuit design and related design studies as well as possibilities to perform power system studies to verify the plants’ performances in our customers’ networks.
• Participate in technical discussions with customers and suppliers related to proposed solutions and design concepts.
• Plan and actively participate in Factory Acceptance Tests and Site Acceptance Tests with the customer and/or other Hitachi-Energy units.

Electrical Engineering

• Preparation of FACTS plant design drawings (Secondary).
• Preparation of specification and Request for Proposal (RFP) documents for control and protection cubicles, cable, junction boxes, etc.
• Reviewing and coordinating with vendor/supplier drawings for electrical deliverables including primary equipment.
• Evaluation of sub-supplier and selection as per project requirements.
• Preparation of As-Built Drawings

Controls Engineering

• Developing control algorithms/ firmware and modeling/simulation for power converters/ control development
• Create, modify, debug, test and deploy control algorithms
• Control logic design and testing
• Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) testing with real-time simulators
• SCADA / HMI application development using Micro SCADA / Zenon SCADA software.
• You will be responsible for the design & development of a secured network overall architecture for SCADA / HMI system for PCS projects.
• IT infrastructure hands on experience on Routers, Firewalls, Switches, Servers, and workstations with basic networking skills.

Mechanical Engineering

• Developing base and detailed design documents and drawings based on customer requirements, as well as local and global standards for station general arrangement and building layouts, cable trench and conduit layout, grounding plan, and lightning protection plan.
• Performing Mechanical Calculations to correspond to physical/primary systems including but not limited to grounding, illumination, lightning protection, magnetic field, and structural steel calculations.
• Reviewing and coordinating with vendor/supplier drawings for mechanical deliverables including primary equipment.
• 3D modeling of plants in Revit.
• Preparation of As-Built Drawings

Required Qualifications:

• Senior undergraduate engineering with preferred concentrations in Electrical, Mechanical, or Industrial Engineering, with an anticipated graduation date of December 2025 or May 2026
• A background in Electrical Power Systems is a plus
• Minimum GPA of 3.2
• The right to work in the U.S. without sponsorship, now or in the future
• Desire to develop business and leadership skills and work on operational projects

Preferred Qualifications:

• Proficiency with Microsoft Office
• Demonstrated strong organization and work/project planning skills
• Demonstrated strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Self-motivated and effective collaborator
• Willingness to learn

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