R&D Engineer - Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) / Component Engineer - IDC

Business Information:

Hitachi Energy India Development Centre (IDC) is a research and development facility with around 500 R&D engineers, specialists, and experts, who focus on creating and sustaining digital solutions, new products and technology. This includes product integration, testing, cybersecurity, and certification. The India Development Centre is situated in Chennai and Bangalore. IDC collaborates with the R&D and Research centres of Hitachi Energy, which are spread across more than 15 locations throughout 12 countries. In the past 20 years, IDC has secured more than 200 international papers and 150+ patents.

Mission Statement:

Ensure quality and timely deliverables, collaborating and coordinating with all concerned teams and organizations, both internal and external, as per the projects and products plans.

Your Responsibilities:

The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of documentation of engineering results for production with specific experience from electronic manufacturing documentation & Component Engineering. As a competence base you have a technical education but relevant experience from electronics engineering or manufacturing is more important.

The candidate needs to be self-driven and have experiences working with processes, such as Scrum / Agile, or Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) which is an added advantage.

Ensure quality and timely deliverables, collaborating and coordinating with all concerned teams and organizations, both internal and external, as per the projects and products plans.

Some of the key responsibilities include, but not limited to

Activities & Deliverables

Prepare, distribute and store accurately and timely customer and supplier documents for projects according to procedures ensuring effective version control and status tracking.

• Communicate and interact with electronics design engineers, component engineers, software engineers and mechanical engineers.
• As part of the process, compile complete documentation for printed circuit board assemblies.
• Structure the documentation in a PLM system and create part of the documentation.
• Participate in the review of designs.
• Be part of documentation process for technical information regarding electronics components such as obsolescence information to be used as base for electronics product life cycle decisions.
• Component classification including environmental compliance information make sure the approval process of components is progressing.
• Make sure that correct and approved compiled software files are added in the product structure for distribution to production.
• Make parameter updates in software files to match the version information for the concerned product structure.
• Make sure that correct and approved mechanical documentation is included correctly in the product structure.
• Communicate and interact with EMS companies producing printed circuit board assemblies in enclosures.
• Provide released documentation for production.
• Provide engineering change orders and related documentation for implementation in production.
• Provide released approved temporary deviations and rework instructions.
• Follow up implementation of new designs, changes, approved deviations, and rework.
• Work in and with a PLM system to secure.
• Support the project teams for components selection, alternate analysis.
• 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:

• Graduate in engineering or similar in the field of Electrical, Mechanical, Electronics.
• More than 4 years of proven experience in product life cycle management of HW, Component engineering.
• A deep interest and experience in electronic product documentation.
• Experience working with advanced PLM tools.
• Experience with process such as Agile / Scrum (SAFe is an added advantage).
• Proficiency in both spoken & written English language is required.

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