Program Manager Data Centers - Grid Automation

HITACHI ENERGY USA INC; Raleigh (NC); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Hitachi Energy is seeking a Program Manager for Data Centers to orchestrate complex customer programs from requirements through deployment. You will coordinate R&D, engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, and commercial teams to deliver scalable data-center solutions.

The role requires strong leadership across global teams, robust program governance, and the ability to translate evolving customer needs into executable plans while managing risks and dependencies.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical, Power Systems, Mechanical, Industrial Engineering, Program Management, or a related technical discipline.
• Proven experience leading large, technically complex programs with multiple workstreams and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Experience in power electronics, electrical engineering, power systems, energy storage, industrial automation, or data centers infrastructure.
• Strong program-planning capabilities including governance, risks, dependencies, and resource constraints.
• Ability to influence and align stakeholders across a global matrix without direct authority.
• Excellent executive-level communication and stakeholder management.
• Commercial awareness of how technical decisions impact cost, schedule, scope, and commitments.

Responsibilities

• Own the integrated program roadmap with milestones, deliverables, and cross-functional execution.
• Lead program coordination with data-center customers and internal teams for requirements and changes.
• Translate customer requirements into executable plans for engineering, manufacturing, and supply chain.
• Coordinate interfaces, studies, modeling, validation, and testing as required.
• Maintain governance, decision logs, escalation paths, and risk controls for the program.
• Ensure timely decisions and transition prototypes into industrial deployment.
• Maintain visibility of status, schedule, and resource outlook.

Skills

Program management

Cross-functional leadership

Executive communication

Customer engagement

Technical leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in electrical/power/industrial engineering or related

Advanced degree a plus

Job description

Program Manager, Data Centers

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.

Equal Employment Opportunity

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