Job Overview
Job description
- Location:
- Roxboro, NC
- Work arrangement:
- On-site
Role Summary
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.
Requirements
- 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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- Current employees apply here
About the Company
More About Us
We believe great work thrives in an environment where people feel genuinely supported and fairly rewarded. Our benefits are designed to create real value for every individual - fueling engagement, performance, and growth. By prioritizing well-being, we build a workplace where personal and organizational success grow together.
Our benefit offering is tailored based on your country of employment and generally includes:
You will receive more specific information during the recruitment process.
Applicable only for Poland location align with local law regulations - We are committed to full transparency and compliance with all legal requirements, ensuring that every candidate knows exactly what to expect at each stage of the recruitment process. Once the process is successfully completed, we will share detailed information about financial conditions and benefits with the selected candidate. Before signing the employment contract, you will receive all remaining details of the offer, giving you the time and space to review everything carefully
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Current employees apply here
Competitive salary and incentives
Well-being and care
Paid and unpaid leave
Flexible work options
Benefits that support your financial security
- Role:
- Project Manager - Power Transformer
- Job Type:
- Senior Level | Project Management
Company profile
Hitachi Energy
hitachienergy.comHitachi Energy works on the global energy system, aiming to make electricity more sustainable, secure, resilient and affordable and more accessible to all. Its technologies support the expansion and transition of power systems and grids, including HVDC transmission. The company is part of Hitachi Ltd. and traces its heritage to the engineering companies ASEA and Brown Boveri, through its predecessor company ABB. Hitachi Energy is headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland.
- Headquarters
- Zurich, Switzerland
- Founded
- 2018
- Funding Stage
- Subsidiary
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