Program Manager Data Centers - Grid Automation

Hitachi; Charlotte (NC); Remoto; USD 110.000 - 170.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

Hitachi Energy is seeking a Program Manager, Data Centers to lead strategically and technically complex customer programs from requirements through validation and deployment.

You will act as end-to-end program integrator across R&D, engineering, product management, manufacturing, supply chain, and sales to deliver scalable, repeatable solutions for the growing data-center market. Remote work option from North Carolina.

Competenze

• Bachelor’s degree required with professional experience in technical domains such as power electronics, electrical engineering, power systems, energy storage, industrial automation, data centers, or similar infrastructure.
• Experience coordinating R&D or product-development activities and customer project execution.
• Strong program-planning capabilities including roadmaps, governance, risks, dependencies, scope changes, and resource management.
• Strong customer-engagement skills with the ability to manage clarifications, changing requirements, commitments, and escalations.
• Excellent executive-level communication and understanding of how technical/program decisions affect cost, schedule, scope, and commitments.

Mansioni

• Lead program-level coordination with strategic data-center customers across requirements, commitments, and changes throughout the lifecycle.
• Translate evolving requirements into clear, executable plans for engineering, product development, manufacturing, and supply chain teams.
• Establish governance, decision logs, escalation paths, and management reporting; track risks and dependencies.
• Coordinate interfaces, testing activities, and validation as required; ensure timely decisions and recoveries when at risk.
• Oversee transition from prototypes to industrialization and deployable customer projects; baselined scope and impact assessments.

Conoscenze

Program management

Cross-functional leadership

Customer engagement

Requirements management

Formazione

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering / Power Systems / related field

Descrizione del lavoro

Location: Remote - North Carolina, United States

Job ID: HITACHI ENERGY USA INC

Profession (Job Category): Project/Program Management

Job Schedule: Full time

Program Manager, Data Centers

at Hitachi Energy, you will lead strategic and technically complex customer programs from initial requirements and product development through validation, industrialization, and project execution. You will serve as the end-to-end program integrator between our customers and Hitachi Energy, bringing together R&D, engineering, product management, application engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, project execution, quality, sales, and commercial teams. Your leadership will help convert evolving customer requirements into executable, scalable, and repeatable solutions for the rapidly growing data-center market. This is an opportunity for an experienced program leader who can operate at the intersection of customer engagement, technical development, and project execution. You will provide the structure, visibility, and cross-functional coordination necessary to manage complex dependencies, enable timely decisions, and successfully transition customer-driven developments into deployable solutions.

Lead program-level coordination with strategic data-center customers, managing requirements, commitments, technical clarifications, and changes throughout the program lifecycle. Translate evolving customer requirements into clear, executable plans for engineering, product development, manufacturing, supply chain, and project-execution teams. Coordinate technical interfaces, grid studies, modeling, simulation, validation, and testing activities as required by the program. Align R&D, engineering, product management, application engineering, manufacturing, quality, supply chain, project management, sales, and commercial stakeholders around shared program objectives. Establish and maintain effective program governance, decision logs, escalation paths, risk controls, and concise management reporting. Provide visibility and control of program risks, dependencies, changes, decisions, customer commitments, and resource requirements. Identify critical-path dependencies and resource constraints, and drive timely recovery actions and escalations when program commitments are at risk. Coordinate the transition from prototypes and product development into industrialization, customer projects, and repeatable deployment. Ensure customer requirements are appropriately baselined and that material changes are assessed for their potential impact on scope, schedule, cost, resources, and customer commitments. Incorporate prototype and project lessons learned into future product releases, customer projects, and reusable program deliverables. Maintain an accurate and timely view of program status, schedule, resource outlook, technical readiness, and material variances. Build customer confidence through transparent communication, strong governance, and proactive management of risks, issues, and escalations.

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Power Systems Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Program Management, or a related technical discipline. Professional experience in one or more relevant technical areas, such as power electronics, electrical engineering, power systems, battery energy storage systems, industrial automation, data centers, or comparable infrastructure. Experience coordinating both R&D or product-development activities and customer project execution. Strong program-planning capabilities, including experience managing roadmaps, milestones, governance, risks, issues, dependencies, scope changes, and resource constraints. Strong customer-engagement skills, with the ability to manage technical clarifications, changing requirements, commitments, and escalations. Excellent executive-level communication skills, with the ability to present complex program information clearly and concisely. Commercial awareness and an understanding of how technical and program decisions can affect cost, schedule, scope, resources, and customer commitments.

At Hitachi Energy, we are advancing the world’s energy system to be more sustainable, flexible, and secure. We bring together innovation, technology, and diverse perspectives to solve complex energy challenges and deliver meaningful value for our customers and communities. If you have experience leading technically complex customer programs and connecting product development with project execution, we would like to hear from you.

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