R&D Project Manager Power Transformer

The opportunity As a Project Manager, you will be responsible for leading the planning and execution of R&D projects, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives. Your role will involve managing the entire project lifecycle by implementing required processes and maintaining compliance with relevant standards in quality, health, safety, and engineering to achieve targeted metrics. Collaboration with cross-functional teams will be essential to drive innovation and enhance project outcomes. How you'll make an impact You will lead and manage complex projects, coordinating the work of multi-location and cross-functional project teams. Motivating and monitoring internal and/or external resources to accomplish all tasks and milestones will be a key aspect of your role. Managing the cost, schedule, and performance objectives of projects within a program, as well as managing interdependencies between projects to realize specified benefits, will be crucial responsibilities. Additionally, you will ensure appropriate requirements within a program by partnering with relevant business units or other customers while developing a business case. Ensuring understanding of customer value in projects and acting to ensure customer satisfaction and manage expectations will be a priority. You will need to organize and motivate internal domain expert teams to support project execution and ensure that technical guidance provided is followed within deliverables. Compliance with sound methodology and execution practices, internal directives, procedures, and external standards will be necessary to influence activities and targets. Monitoring and controlling activities to ensure achievement of planned stage-gates and efficient utilization of available resources will also be part of your responsibilities. You will be responsible for ensuring transparency around change requests, unforeseen results/events, and identified risks, as well as ensuring that they are properly managed and communicated. Capturing and acting upon all opportunities will also be important. Serving as the key contact for stakeholders and an escalation point for program/project issues, you will effectively communicate appropriate information to stakeholders in a timely manner to achieve desired understanding and support. Leading in partnership with business managers, steering committees, product management, and other internal functions and external parties will be required. Coordinating activities with product and business management, developing, managing, and expanding relationships with stakeholders, internal functions, Corporate Research Centers, and external relevant parties will also be part of your role. Providing proposals for possible partnerships and living Hitachi Energy's core values of safety and integrity by ensuring compliance with applicable external and internal regulations, procedures, and guidelines will be essential. Your Background To excel in this role, you should have a Master's degree in engineering and more than 5 years of experience in project management, either for R&D projects or other types. Experience with transformers and product development will be advantageous. Proven knowledge and experience in project management tools, including gate model, is required. A strong commitment to safe work practices, dedication to following all relevant workplace safety guidelines, excellent communication, coaching, and conflict resolution skills are essential. You should be used to teamwork in international teams with excellent interpersonal skills and international mobility to lead international R&D projects within the transformers organization. Proficiency in both spoken and written English language is necessary. Qualified individuals with disabilities may request a reasonable accommodation if they are unable or limited in their ability to use or access the Hitachi Energy career site due to their disability. They can request reasonable accommodations by completing a general inquiry form on the website, including contact information and specific details about the required accommodation to support them during the job application process. This accommodation is solely for job seekers with disabilities requiring accessibility assistance or accommodation in the job application process. Messages left for other purposes will not receive a response.,