Program Manager Data Centers - Grid Automation | Remote - North Carolina, United States of America

Hitachi Energy; North Carolina; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; 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 deployment.

You will integrate R&D, engineering, product management, manufacturing, supply chain, and sales to deliver scalable, repeatable solutions for the growing data-center market. You will oversee end-to-end program execution, balancing scope, schedule, and resource constraints while ensuring timely decisions and clear stakeholder

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline; advanced degree a plus.
• Proven experience leading large, technically complex programs with multiple workstreams.
• Experience coordinating R&D, product development, and customer project execution.
• Strong planning capabilities: roadmaps, milestones, governance, risks, dependencies, resources.

Responsibilities

• Own the integrated program roadmap with milestones, deliverables, dependencies, and cross-functional execution.
• Lead program-level coordination with data-center customers and manage requirements, changes, and commitments.
• Translate customer requirements into executable plans for engineering, manufacturing, and supply chain.
• Coordinate interfaces, grid studies, modeling, validation, and testing as required by the program.
• Establish governance, decision logs, escalation paths, and concise management reporting.
• Maintain visibility of program status, schedule, resource outlook, and risks; drive mitigation actions.

Skills

Program management leadership

Customer engagement

Executive communication

Cross-functional coordination

Risk governance

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Power Systems Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Program Management, or related technical discipline

Job description

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.

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.

Location Remote - North Carolina, United States of America;
Houston, Texas, United States of America

Job type Full time

Work arrangement Remote

Experience Experienced

Job function Project | Program Management

Contract Regular

Publication date 2026-10-28

Reference number R0149653

About Hitachi Energy

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.

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