Project Quality Specialist

About the Position

Project Quality Specialist

Hitachi Energy's Grid Integration business unit has delivered more than 4,000 projects over the last 15 years. Our Grid Integration portfolio spans a wide range of transmission and substation applications, which facilitate reliable and efficient system integration of the future digital electric network with minimum environmental impact.

We are seeking a Project Quality Specialist to join our team in Tokyo, Japan.

Responsibilities

• Act as an advocate for the Customer by ensuring the Voice of the Customer is represented within the project for all quality matters during execution.
• Represent the company in terms of Quality in front of the customer.
• Interface with the customer on Project Quality issues and ensure ownership of actions to resolve them.
• Enable and coach all project team members to evaluate risks, problems, and solutions from a quality and customer/stakeholder point of view.
• Set up the Project Quality Plan/ Quality Management System for the project, embedded in the Project Execution Plan, to merge and match customer requirements, Power Grids (PG) policies, regulations, and processes, and local regulations.
• Collaborate with the project to develop schedules, estimates, forecasts, and budgets for quality activities.
• Document general and special conditions for use on all project quality documents, project quality procedures, and project quality plans and ensure compliance.
• Analyze Lessons Learned (LL) / Transfer of Experience (ToE) from previous projects and plan QA activities to reduce risks.
• Work with project management teams to prevent mistakes and defects during project execution, provide confidence that Hitachi Energy and customer quality requirements will be fulfilled, establish customer and stakeholder needs/expectations, drive the utilization of process management across the project to deliver consistent results, minimizing variation and maximizing efficiencies.
• Utilize Power Grids (PG) aligned systems and tools to assist project functions during execution to meet operational and customer expectations throughout their lifecycle.
• Apply project quality procedures and plans and ensure appropriate implementation and compliance by the project team.
• Ensure effective internal controls system (project, supply, and site) are in place to verify that processes continue to meet customer and stakeholder requirements.
• Validate that control plans are applied and effective in mitigating prioritized risks.
• Ensure effective quality control during project execution in the form of reviews, inspections, non-conformances, and audits in accordance with internal & customer contractual requirements.
• Proactively facilitate the resolution of issues related to quality for a successful project delivery.
• Perform audits on project delivery and ensure the use of analytics of Quality data from all parts of the operation to identify risks, failures, and nonconformances within the local business, its suppliers, and customers.
• Ensure that appropriate corrective and preventive actions are taken, and solutions are managed to closure.
• Drive quality culture by influencing and engaging the project team for being responsible for their job’s quality.
• Support the team to adapt to incoming changes, moving from firefighting to preventive mode.
• Being a quality ambassador within the project team and with the customer.
• Driving process compliance and adapting improvements in processes.
• Educate project members in quality processes and routines.
• Coordinate quality-related work in the project, follow-up, and act on deviations and changes.
• Analyze quality workhours and monitor project staffing plans and project quality work-hour expenditures, including site.
• Cooperate with functional managers and HR department in project staffing.
• Ensure compliance with applicable external and internal regulations, procedures, and guidelines.
• Live 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.

Requirements

• A university degree in Engineering, Quality Management, or a related field. Electrical or Mechanical, Electrical Engineering is preferred.
• Experience: Must have > 8 years of experience as a Project Quality professional in reputed Engineering/EPC companies comparable to Hitachi Energy business portfolio. Having experience in a managerial role will be added advantage.
• Broad knowledge of organization / area of operation.
• In-depth quality assurance and quality control.
• Must have worked as a project quality specialist or equivalent in similar industries.
• Work independently and with a mindset of working as a team.
• Business level Japanese language is required.
• At least daily conversation level English.

We Offer

• Employment insurance, industrial injury insurance, health insurance, pension insurance
• Paid leave
• Bereavement leave
• Wedding leave
• Maternity leave
• Spousal maternity leave
• Parental leave
• Nursing care leave

About the Company

Hitachi Energy is a global leader in electrification, powering the electricity era to meet the energy demands of today, and the next 25 years. As the energy arm of Hitachi Group, over three billion people depend on our pioneering, mission-critical technologies to power their daily lives.

With over a century of innovation, we are addressing the most urgent energy challenge of our time: driving the evolution of the world’s energy system to ensure abundant, secure, affordable, and sustainable power for today’s generation and the next.

With an unparalleled installed base in over 140 countries, we are the grid ecosystem partner across the utility, industry, data center, and transportation sectors. Headquartered in Switzerland, we employ over 56,000 people in 60 countries and generate revenues of around $20 billion USD. We welcome you to apply today.

Are you ready for an exciting new challenge? Does the above description sound like you? Welcome to apply! Our selection process is continuous, and the position may be closed before the advertisement expires. So, if you are interested – don’t delay, apply today! All other questions can be directed to Talent Acquisition Partner: Ken-Isarin Furutani, LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/isarin-furutani-2036b8b5/

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Location	Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Job type	Full time
Work arrangement	On-Site
Experience	Experienced
Job function	Quality Management
Contract	Regular
Publication date	2026-03-30
Reference number	R0091331