Team Leader Configuration Management

The opportunity: 

Own and govern the configuration management process for all transformers, high-voltage power equipment, and digital product lines. Establish and maintain product configuration baselines throughout the equipment lifecycle. 

How you’ll make an impact:

Engineering Change Management

• Lead the Engineering Change Request (ECR) and Engineering Change Order (ECO) processes.
• Evaluate the impact of design changes on installed fleets, manufacturing, suppliers, and service organizations.
• Coordinate approval workflows for design modifications and product updates.
• Maintain traceability of engineering changes throughout the product lifecycle.
• Implementation and validation of approved changes.
• Manage obsolescence and replacement strategies for components and assemblies.

Product Data Governance

• Establish standards for product data quality, naming conventions, part numbering, and documentation.
• Govern master product data and associated technical documentation.
• Ensure consistency between CAD models, drawings, specifications, BOMs, and released documentation.
• Conduct regular audits to verify configuration accuracy and completeness.
• Drive data quality improvements and corrective actions.

Configuration Baseline Management

• Define and maintain released product baselines.
• Manage configuration identification for transformer designs, accessories, controls, bushings, tap changers, cooling systems, protection systems, and digital solutions.
• Ensure product configurations are uniquely identifiable and traceable.
• Control revisions, versions, and release status of engineering deliverables.
• Maintain historical configuration records for regulatory, quality, and service requirements.

Installed Base & Fleet Management

• Maintain as-built, as-tested, and as-installed configurations for customer equipment.
• Track field modifications, upgrades, retrofits, repairs, and modernization initiatives.
• Support lifecycle management of installed transformer fleets.
• Ensure service organizations have access to accurate configuration records.
• Provide configuration traceability for warranty, reliability, and root cause investigations.

Compliance & Quality

• Ensure configuration processes comply with applicable industry standards and regulatory requirements.
• Support ISO quality management requirements related to design control and configuration management.
• Maintain audit-ready records for customers, regulators, and certification bodies.
• Support product certification and qualification activities.
• Partner with Quality to investigate configuration-related nonconformances.

Digital Engineering & Systems Integration

• Drive integration between PLM, CAD, ERP, MES, service systems, and digital engineering platforms.
• Establish digital thread capabilities across the product lifecycle.
• Enable digital twin and asset lifecycle initiatives through accurate configuration data.
• Support automation of configuration workflows and change processes.
• Define system requirements and enhancements to improve lifecycle data management.

Cross-Functional Coordination

• Act as the central coordination point between Engineering, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Quality, Service, and Product Management.
• Facilitate configuration review boards and change control boards.
• Support new product introductions and technology deployments.
• Coordinate product lifecycle strategies including sustainment and end-of-life planning.
• Provide configuration management expertise to engineering project teams.

Analytics & Continuous Improvement

• Develop configuration management KPIs and performance dashboards.
• Monitor engineering change cycle times and process effectiveness.
• Analyze recurring configuration issues and drive corrective actions.
• Identify opportunities for standardization, simplification, and automation.
• Champion best practices in lifecycle and configuration management across Services Engineering.
• 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 Engineering (Mechanical, Electrical)
• 15 – 20 years’ experience.
• Proven expertise in establishing governance in configuration management process
• Service lifecycle configuration management.
• Hands-on experience in any Product lifecycle management applications (eg. Windchill) Product configuration management.
• Hands-on experience ERP (SAP S4).
• Must have led digital transformation projects.
• Hands-on experience in integration of ERP -> product / service Lifecycle management applications.
• Must have collaborated with different functions such as Engineering, Production, Installed Fleet management, Field service operations and Quality
• Ability to understand concepts of product tree structure.
• Project Management skills,
• Ability to lead team to deliver results.
• Keep track of work progress, prepare reports for management reviews
• Problem solving and influencing skills.