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Team Leader Maintenance

The opportunity

Join Hitachi Energy and take the lead in our maintenance department. As our Team Leader Maintenance, you’ll guide a skilled team in maintaining and improving equipment. You’ll play a key role in shaping maintenance strategies, and our equipment run at peak performance.

How you’ll make the impact:

  • Defines and develops gas-insulated switchgear (GIS) maintenance strategies. Assists in their implementation and development in the local unit. Proposes and manages the annual maintenance budget;
  • Leads the Support unit in planning and implementing initiatives that maintain and improve the reliability and efficiency of equipment, technical infrastructure, production lines, or facilities;
  • Collaborates with production managers in determining maintenance plans for new production equipment and recommends methods to improve reliability, ongoing maintenance, and equipment safety;
  • Develops and proposes projects to improve processes and production lines in order to reduce both routine and emergency maintenance and optimize energy and water consumption;
  • Organizes, conducts, and monitors the proper operation of work equipment, including the timely localization and elimination of malfunctions and their consequences;
  • Develops and organizes the implementation of schedules for technical inspections and preventive maintenance of work equipment in the enterprise;
  • Submits requests for the delivery of spare parts for work equipment and tools;
  • Participates in acceptance committees for the acceptance of repairs carried out by external contractors;
  • Organizes investigations and determines the causes of malfunctions and accidents involving work equipment and their consequences.

Your background:

  • A Bachelor's or a Master's degree in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering;
  • Knowledge and experience of working with Technical documentation;
  • Previous professional experience of at least 3 years;
  • Good command of English, written and spoken ;
  • Very good command of MS Office suite (MS Excel, MS, Word, MS PowerPoint, MS Outlook. Working with ERP systems (SAP) is a strong advantage; Skills for working with electrical equipment, electrical and hand tools;
  • Flexibility and motivation to work as a team player.

What we offer

  • 13th salary;
  • Monthly food vouchers;
  • Supplementary health insurance;
  • Organized transport;
  • Additional bonuses.

More about us 

Join Hitachi Energy and work in a team that is dedicated to creating a future where innovative digital technologies allow greater access to cleaner energy!  You will also be responsible to ensure compliance with applicable external & internal regulations, procedures & guidelines.

Applications will be reviewed on an ongoing basis, so don’t delay – apply today!

Location Sevlievo, Gabrovo, Bulgaria
Job type Full time
Experience Management
Job function Engineering & Science
Contract Regular
Publication date 2026-01-30
Reference number R0118761

About Hitachi Energy

Hitachi Energy is a global technology leader in electrification, powering a sustainable energy future through 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.

Headquartered in Switzerland, we employ over 50,000 people in 60 countries and generate revenues of around $16 billion USD. We welcome you to apply today.