Our inclusive culture embraces and celebrates diversity and nurtures an environment where different cultural backgrounds, experiences, and ideas play an active role in cultivating a common identity.
A diverse workforce fosters innovation and success, which is why we continue to take strides in achieving gender diversity, with female representation in senior positions rising by 2.6% in FY22. And why around the world we promote diversity within the industry at large through activities like Women in STEM, or Women’s History Month, which celebrates the voices of hundreds of Hitachi Rail colleagues worldwide.
Our Impact in FY22
10% increase in employee satisfaction
96% of employees hired with open-ended contracts
0.68 lost time injury frequency rate (28 fewer incidents vs. last year)
Female representation on the workforce increased by 80
An average of 19 training hours per employee (over 265,000 total training hours)
Read more of our social case studies below:
People Stories
Building and Coordinating a Dedicated Testing Team for Hitachi Rail in Romania
Alin Brezeanu is an IVVQ Manager at our laboratory in Romania, he works closely with our field element controller technology. Over his 12-year career with us, he has been dedicated to the product testing process. His engagement with our product has led to an entire testing team who are trained to carry out thorough product trials.
A Journey into Rail Engineering
Fabha Murtaza is a System Engineer for Hitachi Rail in the United Kingdom. She primarily works on urban signalling projects, where she leverages every opportunity to drive innovation and uses iterative feedback to provide effective solutions for customers and enhance the passenger experience. In a recent Q&A, we interviewed Fabha to get an insight into her career. Read on to find out more.
Building Strong Relationships: A Project Manager’s Guide to Success
Sara Tagliaboschi is a Hitachi Rail Project Manager for our projects in Italy and based at our site in Tuscany. In a recent interview, we were pleased to hear about the people skills that Sara deems essential to her role. To Sara, the most important traits of a Project Manager are interpersonal skills and an ability understand a given customer’s needs. The relationship between a project manager and customer requires a lot of collaboration to ensure success.
