Automation SME

Our Company
We're Hitachi Digital Services, a global digital solutions and transformation business with a bold vision of our world's potential. We're people-centric and here to power good. Every day, we future-proof urban spaces, conserve natural resources, protect rainforests, and save lives. This is a world where innovation, technology, and deep expertise come together to take our company and customers from what's now to what's next. We make it happen through the power of acceleration.
Imagine the sheer breadth of talent it takes to bring a better tomorrow closer to today. We don't expect you to 'fit' every requirement - your life experience, character, perspective, and passion for achieving great things in the world are equally as important to us.
Job Description
Job Summary
Automation SME is responsible for leading industrial automation, rail, digital manufacturing initiatives, providing technical leadership for automation teams, and delivering projects involving IIoT, MES, PLC, HMI, SCADA, OPC UA/DA, DCS, and related technologies.
This role combines engineering expertise, solution architecture, team leadership to drive operational excellence, rail, digital transformation, manufacturing productivity improvements and project management.
Act as Technical Lead for the Automation Engineering team.
Define technical architecture and automation standards across projects.
Review engineering designs, control strategies, and software development activities.
Mentor and coach automation engineers and developers.
Support troubleshooting and resolution of complex automation and production issues.
Job Qualifications
Bachelor's Degree in Automation or Mechatronics major.
8+ years of experience in industrial automation, control systems, rail, or digital manufacturing.
Proven experience leading automation, rail projects and engineering teams.
Strong experience in manufacturing, rail environments.
Good at English skills (both verbal & non-verbal).
About Us
We're a global, team of innovators. Together, we harness engineering excellence and passion to co-create meaningful solutions to complex challenges. We turn organizations into data-driven leaders that can make a positive impact on their industries and society. If you believe that innovation can bring a better tomorrow closer to today, this is the place for you.
Fostering innovation through diverse perspectives
Hitachi is a global company operating across a wide range of industries and regions. One of the things that sets Hitachi apart is the diversity of our business and people, which drives our innovation and growth.
We are committed to building an inclusive culture based on mutual respect and merit-based systems. We believe that when people feel valued, heard, and safe to express themselves, they do their best work.
How we look after you
We help take care of your today and tomorrow with industry-leading benefits, support, and services that look after your holistic health and wellbeing. We're also champions of life balance and offer flexible arrangements that work for you (role and location dependent). We're always looking for new ways of working that bring out our best, which leads to unexpected ideas.
So here, you'll experience a sense of belonging, and discover autonomy, freedom, and ownership as you work alongside talented people you enjoy sharing knowledge with.
We're proud to say we're an equal opportunity employer and welcome all applicants for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, age, disability status or any other protected characteristic.
Should you need reasonable accommodations during the recruitment process, please let us know so that we can do our best to set you up for success.