General Information:

The -Project Procurement Engineering Expert role is responsible for plans, schedules and manages the efficient movement of material from Bill of Material to a formalized requisition for purchase. Develops components requirements and scheduling requirements from engineering specifications and plans and manages material movement with purchasing, warehouse, and production for all the Grid Edge Solutions in USA and Canada. The major focus will be on developing a strong planning base, while ensuring best cost and quality, on-time delivery, and material availability for the businesses. Responsible for technical procurement, direct and indirect materials relating to tenders & projects. Call for tender and quotes, evaluate vendors' capability, quality, reliability, and price competitiveness, negotiate with/award contracts within specified spending limits, and develop new qualified sources of supply. Problems faced are difficult to moderately complex. Influences others outside of own job area regarding policies, practices, and procedures.

The Hitachi Energy battery energy storage portfolio is a scalable energy storage solution that is designed to ensure reliable power availability, grid stability, highest penetration of renewable energy for both grid-connected and off-grid systems (microgrids).

Would you like to have a central position within a true global business? Are you driven by results and want to develop and drive the organization from a Procurement Management perspective?

Your Responsibilities:

• Assembles and analyses all data pertinent to creating a constrained engineering plan (creating the purchasing requisition on SAP), uses rough-cut and detail capacity planning and links it to the demand plan. The schedules are for customer approval drawings, bill of materials and detailed manufacturing information.
• BOM & Planning Lead:
  • Works in partnership with the lead engineering and SCM teams to identify items that should have inventory and -to identify life cycle.
  • Use MRP (Materials Resource Planning). Calculates and maintains in the planning systems and the ERPs the inventory parameters: safety stock, reorder point, lot size, lead-time, and replenishment strategies.
  • Obtains sign-off from lead engineering and project managers and provides the result as an input to the integrated business planning process.
  • Works with the SCM team to identify capacity constraints.
  • Prepares capacity chart and develops and implements solutions and mitigation plans in the engineering schedules.
  • Monitors Engineering Work in Progress - WIP, recommends WIP rationalization initiatives.
  • Identifies key root causes for deviation from the engineering plan and implements initiatives to improve future adherence to the plan.
  • Leads the coordination meeting, participate in sales inventory and operations planning reviews and production meetings. Coordinate with engineering and project managers on drawings and drawing approvals.
  • Loads and creates requisitions to be used in creation of purchase orders.
  • Works closely with SCM to ensure purchase orders are processed in a timely manner.
  • Works closely with SCM Category Managers to ensure qualified supplier sourcing for all parts.
  • Supports SCM with inventory management activities as required.
  • Full support of REIWA initiative to support end to end business and ensure continuity and quality of BOM initiative.
• 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:

• Associated or Bachelor's planning, engineering, or related field with 5 years relevant work experience OR this role can be filled at a more junior level should the candidate have technician or certified formation in planning and engineering or related field with at least 5 years of relevant work experience.
• Candidate must already have work authorization that would permit them to work for Hitachi Energy in the United States.
• Relevant experience in planning and engineering of industrial and capital good.
• Familiarity of electrical and structural equipment
• Proficiency in English, written and spoken alike.
• SAP experience
• Must have excellent analytical capabilities to analyze different items usage supply markets.
• Experience working with high-volume and/or high-complexity components (electrical and machined) preferred.
• Position is based at our Raleigh, NC.