Program Manager – Data Centers, Grid Automation
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Program Manager leading Hitachi Energy’s technically complex data-center grid automation programs. Integrating customer requirements, product development, engineering, manufacturing, and project execution.
Responsibilities:
- Lead strategic and technically complex customer programs from initial requirements and product development through validation, industrialization, and project execution
- Serve as the end-to-end program integrator between customers and Hitachi Energy
- Own the integrated program roadmap, milestones, deliverables, dependencies, priorities, resources, and cross-functional execution
- Coordinate with strategic data-center customers on requirements, commitments, technical clarifications, and lifecycle changes
- Translate customer requirements into executable plans for engineering, product development, manufacturing, supply chain, and project-execution teams
- Coordinate technical interfaces, grid studies, modeling, simulation, validation, and testing
- Align R&D, engineering, product management, application engineering, manufacturing, quality, supply chain, project management, sales, and commercial stakeholders
- Establish program governance, decision logs, escalation paths, risk controls, and management reporting
- Manage program risks, dependencies, changes, decisions, customer commitments, and resource requirements
- Identify critical-path dependencies and resource constraints and drive recovery actions and escalations
- Coordinate transition from prototypes and product development into industrialization, customer projects, and repeatable deployment
- Baseline customer requirements and assess changes for impacts on scope, schedule, cost, resources, and commitments
- Facilitate engineering and program decisions and track actions through completion
- Convert complex technical discussions into decisions, responsibilities, timelines, and next steps
- Support phase-gate readiness and completion, review, and acceptance of technical and program deliverables
- Incorporate lessons learned into product releases, customer projects, and reusable program deliverables
- Maintain visibility into program status, schedule, resources, technical readiness, and variances
- Build customer confidence through transparent communication, governance, and proactive risk and escalation management
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Power Systems Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Program Management, or a related technical discipline
- Advanced degree is a plus
- Proven experience leading large, technically complex programs with multiple workstreams, dependencies, and cross-functional stakeholders
- Professional experience in relevant technical areas such as power electronics, electrical engineering, power systems, battery energy storage systems, industrial automation, data centers, or comparable infrastructure
- Experience coordinating R&D or product-development activities and customer project execution
- Strong program-planning capabilities, including roadmaps, milestones, governance, risks, issues, dependencies, scope changes, and resource constraints
- Technical credibility to challenge assumptions, identify dependencies, facilitate engineering decisions, and communicate with technical subject-matter experts
- Strong customer-engagement skills for technical clarifications, changing requirements, commitments, and escalations
- Excellent executive-level communication skills
- Ability to influence and align stakeholders across a global matrix organization without direct authority
- Commercial awareness and understanding of how technical and program decisions affect cost, schedule, scope, resources, and customer commitments
- Equal Employment Opportunity employer; applications welcomed from all qualified individuals
Benefits:
- Equal Employment Opportunity protections for females, minorities, protected veterans, and individuals with disabilities
- Reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities and protected veterans during the application process
- Accessibility support for job seekers requiring accommodation
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