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Service Engineer

Hitachi

Rotterdam
Full-time
5-10 years experience
Hybrid

Key Skills

Commissioning
Troubleshooting
Maintenance
Root Cause Analysis
PLC
DCS
SCADA
Protection and Control Systems
Communication Networks
Substation Automation Systems
MicroSCADA
Electrical Schematics
Wiring Diagrams
Technical Documentation
Customer Relationship Management
Field Service

Job Description

Location:

Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands

Job ID:

R0129430

Date Posted:

2026-06-24

Company Name:

HITACHI ENERGY THE NETHERLANDS B.V.

Profession (Job Category):

Engineering & Science

Job Schedule: 

Full time

Remote:

No

Job Description:

Senior Service Engineer

The opportunity

The Senior Service Engineer is a key technical specialist responsible for delivering high-quality service solutions to customers throughout the full lifecycle of installed systems and equipment. The role combines advanced technical expertise with strong customer focus to ensure safe, reliable, and efficient operation of assets, while contributing to customer satisfaction.

The Senior Service Engineer operates with a high degree of autonomy, supports complex service activities, and acts as a technical reference for customers, colleagues, and cross-functional teams.

What you will do

  • Perform advanced commissioning, troubleshooting, maintenance, upgrades, and repairs on complex systems and equipment.
  • Diagnose root causes of technical issues and implement effective corrective and preventive actions.
  • Execute service activities in compliance with technical standards, quality requirements, and safety regulations.
  • Act as a trusted technical interface for customers during service execution and after-service follow-up.
  • Support customer training, technical briefings, and on-site guidance when required.
  • Provide clear technical explanations, recommendations, and improvement proposals to customers.
  •  Ensure service activities comply with all Health and Safety internal procedures, contractual requirements, and regulatory standards.
  • Provide technical input for service quotations, upgrades, and retrofit opportunities.
  • Coordinate with service coordinators, project managers, engineering, and supply chain to ensure efficient execution.
  • Act as the main point of contact for customers, maintaining strong relationships, and ensuring high levels of customer satisfaction.

Your background

  • 5–10 years of hands-on field service experience in industrial, electrical, automation, or power systems environments
  • Proven experience with complex installations, commissioning, troubleshooting, and lifecycle service activities
  • Background in customer-facing roles, working independently on-site and managing technical responsibility
  • Experience in service projects, outages, retrofits, upgrades, or system extensions is highly desirable
  • Strong knowledge of one or more of the following, depending on the business area: Automation and control systems (PLC, DCS, SCADA), Protection and control systems, communication networks
  • In depth knowledge of Substation Automation Systems such as MicroSCADA or similar will be beneficial.
  • Ability to read and interpret electrical schematics and wiring diagrams, functional specifications and technical documentation
  • Willingness to travel frequently and work on customer sites, including occasional on-call or outage support

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Core Responsibilities

The Senior Service Engineer delivers high-quality technical service solutions, including commissioning, maintenance, and repairs for complex installed systems. They act as the primary technical interface for customers to ensure safe and efficient asset operation.

Requirements

Requires 5-10 years of field service experience in industrial, electrical, or power systems environments. Candidates must have expertise in automation and control systems and the ability to interpret electrical schematics.

About Hitachi

Industry: Utilities

Company size: 10,001+ employees

Hitachi Energy is a global technology leader in electrification, powering a sustainable energy future with innovative power grid technologies with digital at the core. Over three billion people depend on our technologies to power their daily lives. With over a century in pioneering mission-critical technologies like high-voltage, transformers, automation, and power electronics, we are addressing the most urgent energy challenge of our time – balancing soaring electricity demand, while decarbonizing the power system. With an unparalleled installed base in over 140 countries, we co-create and build long-term partnerships across the utility, industry, transportation, data centers, and infrastructure sectors. Headquartered in Switzerland, we employ over 50,000 people in 60 countries and generate revenues of around $16 billion USD.

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