Hardware Development Project Lead

About the role

HITACHI ENERGY SWEDEN AB is looking for a Project Lead to join its global HW R&D team in Vaesteras. You will lead hardware development and maintenance projects for innovative modules for IED products, making sure schedules, costs, scope and quality objectives are met while working closely with development and manufacturing partners. The role sits in an agile team and involves representing the project in governance forums.

Key responsibilities

• Plan, track and report on scope, schedule, cost and quality, and present progress and decisions in Steering Committees and Change Control Boards.
• Build and maintain supplier partnerships, and perform effort and cost estimations and schedule work according to resource availability and task dependencies.
• Analyze, document and mitigate technical and organizational risks proactively.
• Approve key deliverables and baselines and hand them over to program or release projects.
• Work with Operations to introduce new modules to the factory.
• Collaborate with Program Managers, HW Systems Engineers, embedded software developers, type test engineers and peer Project Managers.

Required profile

• B.S. or M.S. in Electronics Engineering (or related), with formal project management qualification and/or equivalent experience.
• Experience in industrial and/or energy domains.
• Excellent communication, negotiation and presentation skills in English.
• Comfortable working in agile environments.

What we offer

• Collective agreement and flexible working hours.
• Health care and wellness allowance.
• Career opportunities within Hitachi Energy in Sweden and globally, plus training and education.
• Parental leave supplementary compensation and an employee benefit portal with discounts and perks.