Program Manager – Data Centers, Grid Automation

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in North Carolina, +1 more state.

📋 Description

• Lead strategic and technically intricate customer programs from the initial requirements phase through product development, validation, industrialization, and project execution.

• Act as the comprehensive program integrator between clients and Hitachi Energy.

• Manage the integrated program roadmap, including milestones, deliverables, dependencies, priorities, resources, and cross-functional execution.

• Collaborate with strategic data-center customers on requirements, commitments, technical clarifications, and lifecycle modifications.

• Convert customer requirements into actionable plans for engineering, product development, manufacturing, supply chain, and project execution teams.

• Oversee technical interfaces, grid studies, modeling, simulation, validation, and testing processes.

• Align R&D, engineering, product management, application engineering, manufacturing, quality, supply chain, project management, sales, and commercial stakeholders.

• Establish program governance, maintain decision logs, develop escalation paths, and implement risk controls and management reporting.

• Manage program risks, dependencies, changes, decisions, customer commitments, and resource needs.

• Identify critical-path dependencies and resource limitations, driving recovery actions and escalations as necessary.

• Oversee the transition from prototypes and product development into industrialization, customer projects, and repeatable deployment.

• Establish baseline customer requirements and evaluate changes for impacts on scope, schedule, cost, resources, and commitments.

• Facilitate engineering and program decisions while tracking actions through to completion.

• Transform complex technical discussions into clear decisions, responsibilities, timelines, and next steps.

• Support phase-gate readiness, completion, review, and acceptance of technical and program deliverables.

• Integrate lessons learned into product releases, customer projects, and reusable program deliverables.

• Maintain visibility into program status, schedule, resources, technical readiness, and variances.

• Foster 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 field.

• An advanced degree is considered an advantage.

• Demonstrated experience in leading large, technically complex programs involving multiple workstreams, dependencies, and cross-functional stakeholders.

• Professional experience in relevant technical domains such as power electronics, electrical engineering, power systems, battery energy storage systems, industrial automation, data centers, or similar infrastructure.

• Experience in coordinating R&D or product development activities and executing customer projects.

• Strong capabilities in program planning, including roadmaps, milestones, governance, risks, issues, dependencies, scope changes, and resource constraints.

• Technical credibility to challenge assumptions, identify dependencies, facilitate engineering decisions, and communicate effectively with technical subject-matter experts.

• Strong skills in customer engagement for technical clarifications, evolving requirements, commitments, and escalations.

• Excellent communication skills suitable for executive-level interactions.

• Ability to influence and align stakeholders across a global matrix organization without direct authority.

• Commercial awareness and an understanding of how technical and program decisions impact cost, schedule, scope, resources, and customer commitments.

• Equal Employment Opportunity employer; applications are welcomed from all qualified individuals.

🏝️ Benefits

• Equal Employment Opportunity protections for women, minorities, protected veterans, and individuals with disabilities.

• Reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and protected veterans during the application process.

• Accessibility support for job seekers needing accommodation.