Program Manager Data Centers - Grid Automation
About The Position
The Program Manager, Data Centers at Hitachi Energy leads strategic, technically complex customer programs from initial requirements and product development through validation, industrialization, and project execution. The role serves as the end-to-end program integrator between customers and Hitachi Energy, coordinating R&D, engineering, product management, application engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, project execution, quality, sales, and commercial teams. The position helps convert changing customer requirements into executable, scalable, repeatable solutions for the data-center market. The Program Manager provides structure, visibility, and cross-functional coordination to manage dependencies, support timely decisions, and transition customer-driven development into deployable solutions. The role is remote in North Carolina, United States.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Power Systems Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Program Management, or a related technical discipline.
- 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 management of 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, including managing technical clarifications, changing requirements, commitments, and escalations.
- Excellent executive-level communication skills and ability to present complex program information clearly and concisely.
- Ability to influence and align stakeholders across a global matrix organization without relying on direct authority.
- Commercial awareness and understanding of how technical and program decisions can affect cost, schedule, scope, resources, and customer commitments.
Nice To Haves
- An advanced degree.
Responsibilities
- Own the integrated program roadmap, including milestones, deliverables, dependencies, priorities, resources, and cross-functional execution.
- Coordinate program-level engagement with strategic data-center customers, managing requirements, commitments, technical clarifications, and changes throughout the program lifecycle.
- 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 as required.
- Align cross-functional stakeholders around shared program objectives.
- Establish and maintain program governance, decision logs, escalation paths, risk controls, and 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 recovery actions and escalations when commitments are at risk.
- Coordinate the transition from prototypes and product development into industrialization, customer projects, and repeatable deployment.
- Ensure customer requirements are baselined and assess material changes for impact on scope, schedule, cost, resources, and customer commitments.
- Facilitate engineering and program decisions by clarifying issues, assigning accountable owners, establishing actions, and tracking completion.
- Translate complex technical discussions into clear decisions, responsibilities, timelines, and next steps for technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
- Coordinate completion, review, and acceptance of technical and program deliverables for phase-gate readiness.
- Incorporate prototype and project lessons learned into future product releases, customer projects, and reusable program deliverables.
- Maintain accurate, timely visibility into program status, schedule, resource outlook, technical readiness, and material variances.
- Build customer confidence through transparent communication, effective governance, and proactive risk, issue, and escalation management.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
