Program Manager Data Centers - Grid Automation

Hitachi Energy; North Carolina; On-site; USD 110,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Hitachi Energy Ltd. is seeking an experienced Program Manager, Data Centers to lead strategic, technically complex customer programs from requirements through validation, industrialization, and execution.

You will act as the end-to-end program integrator, aligning R&D, engineering, product management, manufacturing, supply chain, project management, quality, and sales to deliver scalable, repeatable data-center solutions. This role demands strong governance and proactive risk management.

Qualifications

• Experience leading large, technically complex programs.
• Ability to coordinate across R&D, engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, and sales.
• Strong communication with executive stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Own the integrated program roadmap with milestones, deliverables, dependencies, and resources.
• Lead program-level coordination with strategic data-center customers and cross-functional teams.
• Translate evolving customer requirements into executable plans for engineering, product development, manufacturing, and project execution.
• Coordinate technical interfaces, grid studies, modeling, validation, and testing as needed.
• Establish governance, decision logs, risk controls, and concise management reporting.

Skills

Program management

Cross-functional coordination

Stakeholder management

Customer engagement

Executive-level communication

Risk management

Technical credibility

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or related

Job description

The Opportunity

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.

How You'll Make an Impact

• Own the integrated program roadmap, including milestones, deliverables, dependencies, priorities, resources, and cross-functional execution.
• 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.
• Facilitate timely engineering and program decisions by clarifying the issue, identifying accountable owners, establishing actions, and tracking those actions through completion.
• Turn complex technical discussions into clear decisions, responsibilities, timelines, and next steps for technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
• Support phase-gate readiness by coordinating the completion, review, and acceptance of required technical and program deliverables.
• 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.

Your Background

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Power Systems Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Program Management, or a related technical discipline. An advanced degree is a plus.
• Proven experience leading large, technically complex programs with multiple workstreams, dependencies, and cross-functional stakeholders.
• 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.
• The technical credibility to challenge assumptions, identify dependencies, facilitate engineering decisions, and communicate effectively with technical subject-matter experts.
• 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.
• Demonstrated ability to influence and align stakeholders across a global matrix organization without relying on direct authority.
• Commercial awareness and an understanding of how technical and program decisions can affect cost, schedule, scope, resources, and customer commitments.

More About Us

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.

We encourage you to apply even if you do not meet every listed qualification. If you have experience leading technically complex customer programs and connecting product development with project execution, we would like to hear from you.