Discipline Product Engineer (DPE) - Electrical Engineering

Location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Remote Type: Onsite

Time Type: Full time

Job Description

Location:

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Job ID:

R0088237

Date Posted:

2026-06-03

Company Name:

HITACHI ENERGY TECHNOLOGY SERVICES PRIVATE LIMITED

Profession (Job Category):

Engineering & Science

Job Schedule: 

Full time

Remote:

No

Job Description:

The Opportunity

We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Discipline Product Engineer (DPE) to join our Product Portfolio Management team. The DPE will play a crucial role in managing the lifecycle, requirements, configuration, and roadmap for the solutions in the Electrical Engineering discipline. The DPE role has a specific focus on scale-up and reuse through cross-product platform thinking and discipline-wide consistency, complementing deep ownership within individual Electrical solutions.

How you’ll make an impact

• Oversee the lifecycle of Discipline Solutions and internal Electrical Engineering tools, ensuring version control, updates, and business continuity, with an emphasis on reuse and scalability across products and applications.

• Translating market and engineering needs into Product Requirement Specifications and drive the Electrical roadmap in coordination with the Global Product Manager and Global Product Specialist, ensuring alignment across products to enable reuse and avoid solution lock-in.

• Maintaining and contribute to the development of Electrical Engineering Solutions and ensure documentation, including user guides and technical references, is current, accessible, and complete, with a focus on standardization of building blocks, tools, and processes for reuse.

• Promoting disruptive innovations including leveraging automation to streamline Electrical Engineering processes, reduce engineering hours, and enhance competitiveness, particularly in scale-up and high-volume scenarios.

• Collaborating with other experts to modularize methods and develop replicable tools that scale across projects, ensuring platform consistency and reuse between products such as Shunt and Series applications (Statcom, Series compensation).

• Monitoring Electrical Engineering performance in tenders, projects and coordinate feedback-driven improvements across teams, identifying systemic patterns and opportunities that strengthen the shared base solutions.

• Aligning with other disciplines and units to maximize solutions and ensure cross-product compatibility and governed deviations that feed learning back to the base.

• Tracking updates in design tools, engage with industry forums, and build networks to support discipline-wide scale-up readiness and reuse.

• Provide guidance in tenders and projects and ensure knowledge transfer across global teams, with focus on consistent application of the Electrical base solutions rather than local adaptations.

• Collaborating and coordinate with the technical area responsible and Subject matter experts to drive continuous improvement and adoption of reliable, product-based solutions.

• Collaborating with product management to establish and sustain the product lifecycle management system (PLM).

• Responsible to ensure compliance with applicable external and internal regulations, procedures, and guidelines.

• Living Hitachi Energy’s core values of safety and integrity, which means taking responsibility for your own actions while caring for your colleagues and the business.

Your Background

• BE /M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering or similar experience gained in other business.

• 10 plus years of experience in Electrical Engineering, modularization or engineering products, standardization, design tools (E3 Zuken or similar), PDM system (Siemens team center or similar).

• Strong communication, collaboration, and leadership abilities.

• Experience working with diverse and cross-functional teams.

• Proven experience in product management is highly desirable.

• Strategic, operational, and solution-oriented mindset with a focus on business productivity and efficiency.

• Proficiency in both spoken & written English language is required.

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