Project Manager - Power Transformer

The opportunity

Join Hitachi Energy at a moment where innovation, collaboration, and purpose come together to shape the future of power. As a Project Manager in our Transformer Business Unit, you will play a central role in delivering complex, high-visibility projects that support the North American energy landscape.

Reporting to the Director, Program Management Office-HUB North America, you will lead multiple, interrelated projects within the NAM Power Transformers Group. These projects are delivered in close partnership with a key strategic customer and executed across several Hitachi Energy factories, giving you exposure to a broad manufacturing network and diverse stakeholders.

In this role, you will turn strategy into action-bringing structure to complexity, aligning teams around common goals, and ensuring projects are delivered safely, on time, and within budget. You will work cross-functionally with engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, service, and legal teams, while acting as a trusted point of contact for customers. Along the way, you'll contribute to continuous improvement initiatives, strengthen best practices, and grow your project management capabilities in a supportive, inclusive, and dynamic environment.

If you are motivated by accountability, collaboration, and making a visible impact in a growing energy organization, this is an opportunity to build a meaningful and rewarding career.

How you'll make an impact

• Lead cross-functional project teams with clear structure, milestones, and goals.
• Manage scope, schedule, budget, quality, safety, and financial performance.
• Serve as the primary customer contact and escalation point for project issues.
• Coordinate activities across factories, service teams, and external partners.
• Develop and maintain project plans covering scope, budget, schedule, and risk.
• Identify, analyze, and mitigate project risks while sharing lessons learned.
• Support contract negotiations, change management, and claims resolution.
• Build strong relationships with customers and internal stakeholders.
• Responsible to ensure compliance with applicable external and internal regulations, procedures, and guidelines.

Your background

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Business Administration, or equivalent experience. Minimum 5 years of relevant project management experience.
• PMP certification preferred; ability to achieve Hitachi Energy PM certification within 2 years.
• Experience coordinating and leading remote, multi-location teams.
• Proven success managing scope, cost, schedules, quality, and vendors.
• Authorization to work in the United States (no relocation or sponsorship).

More about us

• Be part of a global organization advancing a more secure, sustainable energy future.
• Grow through structured learning, certification programs, and career development paths.
• Thrive in a collaborative culture grounded in safety, integrity, and continuous improvement.

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Client-provided location(s): Roxboro, NC

Job ID: Hitachi_Energy-JID3-192260

Employment Type: FULL_TIME

Posted: 2026-05-18T23:34:11