Program Manager Data Centers - Grid Automation

Hitachi; Clayton (NC); Remoto; USD 120.000 - 160.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

Hitachi Energy is seeking a Program Manager, Data Centers to lead strategic, technically complex customer programs from requirements through validation, industrialization and execution. You will act as end-to-end program integrator across R&D, engineering, product management, manufacturing, supply chain, and sales.

The role demands strong cross-functional leadership, excellent executive-level communication, and the ability to translate evolving customer needs into scalable, deployable

Competenze

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or related field.
• Experience coordinating R&D or product development and customer projects.
• Strong program planning with governance, risks, dependencies, and resource constraints.
• Excellent executive-level communication and customer engagement.
• Commercial awareness of cost, schedule, scope implications.

Mansioni

• Lead program-level coordination with strategic data-center customers throughout the program lifecycle.
• Translate evolving requirements into plans for engineering, product development, manufacturing, supply chain, and project execution.
• Coordinate technical interfaces, grid studies, modeling, validation, and testing activities.
• Align R&D, engineering, product management, manufacturing, quality, supply chain, and sales around program objectives.
• Establish governance, decision logs, escalation paths, risk controls, and reporting.
• Provide visibility of program risks, dependencies, changes, decisions, and resource requirements.
• Identify critical-path dependencies and drive timely recovery actions.
• Coordinate transition from prototypes to industrialization and repeatable deployment.
• Baselining requirements and assessing changes for impact on scope, schedule, cost, and commitments.
• Incorporate lessons learned into future releases and reusable program deliverables.

Conoscenze

Program management

Cross-functional leadership

Stakeholder management

Technical understanding

Communication

Formazione

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering

Descrizione del lavoro

Location and Schedule

Remote - North Carolina, United States

Full time Remote

Job Overview

As a 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.

Requirements

• 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.

About Hitachi Energy

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