Senior Project Manager

Hitachi, Ltd; United States; Hybrid; USD 114,000 - 148,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

25 days holiday

Bonus potential

Pension scheme with up to 9%

Private medical insurance

Personal Accident insurance

Group Income protection

Group Life Insurance

Employee Assistance Programme

Job summary

Hitachi Rail is seeking a seasoned Project Delivery Lead to drive performance across multi-disciplinary teams, ensuring projects are delivered safely, on time, within budget and to high quality standards. The role is hybrid with travel to customer sites in Sheffield and Manchester and occasional visits to other Hitachi Rail locations to support delivery and stakeholder engagement.

You will lead governance, risk management, and change control, coach project managers, and work closely with

Qualifications

• Extensive experience delivering complex, high-value projects.
• Strong leadership and people management across multidisciplinary teams.
• Excellent stakeholder management and negotiation skills.
• Strong commercial, financial, and business acumen.
• Experience in project governance, planning, scheduling, risk management, and change control.

Responsibilities

• Take overall responsibility for project delivery performance against time, cost and quality objectives.
• Provide leadership and direction to multidisciplinary project teams.
• Ensure projects are delivered in line with governance and control processes.
• Manage project risks, opportunities and change control; plan resources.
• Support commercial performance across project portfolios (revenue, cash flow, EBIT).
• Coach and develop less experienced Project Managers.
• Present clear performance information to senior leaders.

Skills

Project leadership

Stakeholder management

Governance and controls

Risk and change management

Financial acumen

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

IPMA Level C or B qualification

Job description

role, responsible for driving performance across project teams and ensuring projects are delivered safely, on time, within budget, and to the highest quality standards.This is a

• hybrid role, offering flexibility between home and office working. The successful candidate will be expected to undertake regular travel to customer sites in Sheffield and Manchester, along with occasional visits to other Hitachi Rail locations as required to support project delivery and stakeholder engagement. Working closely with senior stakeholders, customers, suppliers, and multidisciplinary teams, you will provide leadership, governance, and direction across multiple high-value projects.

• What You'll Be Doing

  Taking overall responsibility for project delivery performance, ensuring successful outcomes against time, cost, and quality objectives. Providing leadership and direction to multidisciplinary project leadership teams. Ensuring projects are delivered in line with governance and control processes.

  Managing project risks, opportunities, change control, resource planning, and stakeholder engagement. Supporting commercial performance across project portfolios, including revenue, cash flow, and EBIT targets. Building and maintaining strong relationships with customers, suppliers, and internal business functions. Providing coaching and development support to less experienced Project Managers. Presenting clear and concise project performance information to senior business leaders.

• About You

  Essential Extensive experience delivering complex, high-value projects. Strong leadership and people management skills with experience leading multidisciplinary teams. Excellent stakeholder management and negotiation skills. Strong commercial, financial, and business acumen. Experience in project governance, planning, scheduling, risk management, and change control. Ability to analyse project performance and investigate cost variances. Experience working across engineering, finance, commercial, supply chain, and operational functions.

  Ability to coach and develop project management talent.

  Desirable Experience within the rail industry or another technical engineering environment. Knowledge of transportation solutions, including train control, communications, and safety systems. IPMA Level C or B qualification, or equivalent professional accreditation.

• What we offer

  • Competitive salary
  • 25 days holiday
  • Potential opportunity for annual performance related bonus
  • Pension scheme with contributions up to 9%
  • Private medical insurance
  • Personal Accident insurance
  • Group Income protection
  • Group Life Insurance
  • Employee Assistance Programme

• Closing date for applications is 27th September#####6. #J-18808-Ljbffr