Factory Engineering Manager Hitachi Energy

The opportunity

Oversee production order execution and provide timely support for quotation requests by optimizing team efficiency and ensuring fast, high quality, cost effective delivery.

• Establish governance and organizational frameworks for the factory engineering team, and lead capacity planning to ensure resources align with current and future project needs.
• Manage the engineering budget, monitor financial performance, and optimize resource allocation in line with strategic and operational priorities.
• Implement and track engineering KPIs aligned with the HUB framework to drive quality, productivity, and standardization.
• Build strong partnerships with internal stakeholders and engage with customers to understand needs, gather feedback, and ensure engineering deliverables meet expectations.
• Act as the primary escalation point for engineering issues, define operating guidelines, monitor progress, and address technical challenges proactively. You will be responsible for ensuring compliance with applicable external and internal regulations, procedures, and guidelines.
• Living Hitachi Energy s core values safety and integrity, which means taking responsibility for your own actions while caring for your colleagues and the business.

Your Background

• Degree in Electrical Engineering; master s degree preferred.
• Minimum 10 years of progressive experience in engineering operations, with strong exposure to tendering, order execution, and multi project management.
• Experience as a senior mechanical/electrical engineer in dry type or distribution liquid filled transformers, including design reviews with factories and customers, is an advantage.
• Hands-on involvement in initiatives such as DtV, StarLiquid technology implementation, GMR (as key user), design tool development, Six Sigma, or factory improvement projects is beneficial.
• Knowledge of industry standards and organizations such as IEC, ISO, CIGRE, ASTM, with technical memberships (e.g., Egypt Utility) considered a plus.
• Strong leadership abilities to develop and guide multidisciplinary engineering teams.
• Fluency in Arabic and English; additional languages are an advantage.