Hitachi Energy, High Voltage Products, is renowned worldwide as a specialist for power transmission and distribution. Our unit Gas Insulated Switchgears (GIS), based in Zürich-Oerlikon, is active in the development and production of gas insulated switching systems. We ensure the high reliability of our systems by using state-of-the-art development tools and methods.

Join our team in the R&D department for gas-insulated switchgear (GIS) as a (Senior) Engineer High Voltage Switchgear 80-100% (f/m/d)

You will act as the technical conscience of our GIS product portfolio by being responsible for our product master data.

We offer you a job in a dynamic and agile environment with ambitious goals in a modern R&D department. You will work at the intersection of technology, product development and production of high voltage switchgear. You will work and be integrated in a team of experts in the field of high voltage switchgear technologies and thus have the possibility to extend and deepen your knowledge.

Your responsibilities

• Managing of small development projects

• Responsibility for products from our GIS portfolio

• Elaboration of innovative product solutions following standards, design rules, guidelines, and internal processes.

• Ensure quality of suppliers, production locations and parts

• Collaborate with globally distributed partners e.g. R&D Centers, Product Management, Supply Chain Management, Production Lines, Sales.

• Analyze and solve interdisciplinary problems in test laboratories and in production lines.

Your background

• Mechanical engineer, electrical engineer, physicist or closely related fields with at minimum a Master’s degree or a Bachelor’s degree with at least two years of experience in a related field

• Apprenticeship as a designer is a plus

• High voltage switchgear experience is desirable but not a must

• Ability to work well in a multicultural, multidisciplinary and globally distributed team.

• Creative, independent and solution-oriented approach

• Software skills or open to acquiring them (MS Office, 3D CAD, ERP, …)

• Good knowledge of English and German