Application Engineer - FACTS

Description

• Seeks optimized technical solutions resourcefully, collaborating with broad Hitachi Energy FACTS team.
• Supports and participates in market communications: seminars, conference events, publications.
• Proactively identify improvements in technology concepts and request changes in FACTS application platform
• Accountable for the technical solution in tenders and will have a technical coordinating role in tenders.
• Ensures efficient marketing activities and value proposition to the customer.
• Supports Sales in Capture Team activities and is generally part of Capture Team
• Identify possible areas of improvement in internal processes and participate in improvement activities.
• Communicates efficiently with customers and other stakeholders (ISOs, consultants, among others)
• Ensures a positive customer experience throughout the sales process.
• Creates added value for the customer and Hitachi Energy by using innovation and experience from installed projects. Communicates details in accordance with Hitachi Energy offering and strategy.
• Builds and supports FACTS team for development of competencies and employees in NAM.
• Establishes and maintains long-term relationships with customers (and key external stakeholders) to understand needs, promote customer understanding and awareness of full product/systems/services offerings, and align to provide a solution.

Requirements

• Minimum of 10 years of experience in tender/project work within FACTS for transmission applications
• Experience from routine and type testing of main components
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English
• Candidate must already have work authorization that would permit them to work for Hitachi Energy in the United States.
• Experience from building and maintaining relationships with customers for both series- and shunt compensation technology.
• Experience from new converter technology based on multilevel voltage source converters (VSC)
• Ability to maintain an overview of entire projects/bids while continuing to attend to detailed technicalities.
• Availability to travel within US, Canada, Mexico and outside NAM; up to 40-50% travel.
• Experience from commissioning and testing on site.
• Customer focus and ability to gather information and convey technical conclusions to individuals in engineering, business, and related industry.
• Knowledge of MACH® systems and experience from testing of control system performance in RTDS
• Negotiating, supervisory and leadership skills
• Extensive experience from FACTS projects including system design, calculations, analysis and simulations.
• Knowledge of related engineering tools and software required to accomplish assigned tasks (PSSE, PSCAD/EMTDC, RTDS, among others)
• Ability to work to deadlines and within budgets.
• Master of Electrical Engineering (preferably in Power Systems)

Benefits

• Pension plan with attractive employer contribution.
• 24/7 employee and family assistance program.
• Fitness and wellness program.
• Comprehensive group insurance (medical, dental, life and disability) and access to a telemedicine service.
• Work from home policy.
• Bonus program.

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance