Technical Project Management Manager | Maneja, India

Hitachi ABB Power Grids; Vadodara; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 3,600,000; Full time

Job summary

Hitachi ABB Power Grids in Gujarat, India, is seeking a Senior IT Project Manager to lead complex MES and related digital transformation initiatives across international manufacturing sites. You will plan, organize, and control resources, schedules, budgets, quality, and risk throughout the project lifecycle, translating shop-floor processes into scalable digital workflows.

You will coordinate factory, business, infrastructure, and vendor stakeholders, provide technical guidance to project

Qualifications

• 15+ years of global IT project/program management experience in manufacturing and digital transformation.
• End-to-end MES and/or ECS implementations in international environments.
• Strong manufacturing domain knowledge and shop-floor understanding.
• Advanced planning, budgeting, governance, and executive status reporting.
• Hands-on requirements engineering and stakeholder workshop facilitation.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end MES implementations across sites.
• Develop detailed plans, estimates, and budgets.
• Monitor delivery against scope, milestones, and quality.
• Manage risks, dependencies, and vendor deliverables.
• Translate requirements into scalable digital workflows.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams across regions.

Skills

IT project management

MES implementations

Vendor coordination

Risk management

Requirements engineering

Digital manufacturing

IIoT concepts

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Job description

We are looking for a result-oriented Senior IT Project Manager to lead complex technical projects across global manufacturing, digital transformation, and industrial IT. The role plans, organizes, and controls resources, procedures, schedules, budgets, quality, and risk throughout the project lifecycle. It requires advanced technical project management knowledge, strong manufacturing insight, and the ability to translate shop-floor processes into scalable digital workflows. The successful candidate will work independently with limited supervision, provide technical and analytical guidance to project teams, and coordinate factory, business, infrastructure, and vendor stakeholders to deliver sustainable Manufacturing Execution System (MES) outcomes across international manufacturing sites.

How you’ll make an impact:

• Lead end-to-end MES implementations, from requirements and solution planning through integration, readiness, UAT, go-live, and hypercare.
• Develop and maintain detailed work plans, schedules, project estimates, resource plans, budgets, milestones, and status reports.
• Monitor delivery against approved scope, milestones, budgets, quality standards, and expected business outcomes; initiate corrective action when required.
• Conduct risk and dependency analysis, manage mitigation actions, and provide clear technical and analytical guidance to the project team.
• Analyze and document business and technical requirements by liaising with manufacturing users, subject-matter experts, IT teams, and other stakeholders.
• Translate shop-floor and manufacturing processes into scalable digital workflows aligned with broader digital manufacturing objectives.
• Manage collaboration across global factories, vendors, infrastructure teams, business stakeholders, and manufacturing operations to support delivery and adoption.
• Integrate vendor activities into the project plan where applicable, and track, review, and ensure the quality of vendor deliverables.
• Ensure project deliverables meet agreed quality standards and complete the required reviews, approvals, testing, and readiness checks.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of project delivery practices.
• Ensure compliance with applicable external and internal regulations, procedures, and guidelines, while demonstrating safety, integrity, and accountability.

Your background:

• 15+ years of global experience in IT project or program management across manufacturing, digital transformation, and industrial IT.
• Demonstrated experience delivering end-to-end MES and/or ECS implementations in international manufacturing environments.
• Strong manufacturing subject matter expertise and understanding of shop-floor operations, production processes, quality, and deployment readiness.
• Advanced project and program management capability, including planning, scheduling, estimation, resource management, budget control, risk management, governance, and executive status reporting.
• Hands-on experience in requirements engineering and business analysis, including stakeholder workshops, process analysis, specification, traceability, validation, and acceptance criteria.
• Experience with integration readiness, UAT planning and execution, go-live preparation, cutover, hypercare, and operational handover.
• Good understanding of digital manufacturing, machine connectivity, and Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) concepts and dependencies.
• Experience with relevant tools and platforms used for project delivery, requirements, collaboration, reporting, and manufacturing solution implementation.
• Proven leadership in coordinating cross-functional factory, business, vendor, infrastructure, and technical teams across regions and cultures.
• Strong problem-solving and decision-making skills, with the ability to manage difficult and sometimes complex issues independently.
• Commitment to continuous improvement, quality, standardization, and scalable delivery practices.
• Advanced education and relevant work experience
• Excellent spoken and written English; additional languages and experience working in global organizations are an advantage.

We are 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.