Manufacturing IT Project Manager

Our Company

We're Hitachi Digital Services, a global digital solutions and transformation business with a bold vision of our world's potential. We're people centric and here to power good. Every day, we future proof urban spaces, conserve natural resources, protect rainforests, and save lives. This is a world where innovation, technology, and deep expertise come together to take our company and customers from what's now to what's next. We make it happen through the power of acceleration.

The role

• Schedule, risk, issue, and status control
• Own end to end project delivery, managing scope, schedule, budget, quality, and contractual milestones across multi site IT OT implementation programs.
• Develop and maintain integrated project plans, resource models, and critical path schedules covering design, build, testing, cutover, and go live.
• Actively manage risks, issues, dependencies, and change control, ensuring timely resolution and transparent escalation to protect production, safety, and delivery commitments.
• Lead stakeholder management and governance, providing clear status reporting, executive dashboards, and communication across operations, engineering, IT, and leadership.
• Ensure delivery outcomes meet agreed business KPIs for reliability, throughput, operational efficiency, and workforce productivity enabled by digital manufacturing solutions

What you'll bring

• Manufacturing IT OT program delivery expertise
• 10+ years of proven experience leading large scale IT and digital transformation programs in manufacturing, including delivery of MES / SCADA / DCS / IIOT platforms.
• Proven ability to manage multi functional teams across onshore, nearshore, and offshore locations.
• Executive stakeholder and risk management.
• Strategic thinking and problem solving abilities.
• Ability to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines.

About us

We're a global, team of innovators. Together, we harness engineering excellence and passion to co create meaningful solutions to complex challenges. We turn organizations into data driven leaders that can make a positive impact on their industries and society. If you believe that innovation can bring a better tomorrow closer to today, this is the place for you.

Fostering innovation through diverse perspectives

Hitachi is a global company operating across a wide range of industries and regions. One of the things that sets Hitachi apart is the diversity of our business and people, which drives our innovation and growth.

We are committed to building an inclusive culture based on mutual respect and merit based systems. We believe that when people feel valued, heard, and safe to express themselves, they do their best work.

How we look after you

We help take care of your today and tomorrow with industry leading benefits, support, and services that look after your holistic health and wellbeing. We're also champions of life balance and offer flexible arrangements that work for you (role and location dependent). We're always looking for new ways of working that bring out our best, which leads to unexpected ideas. So here, you'll experience a sense of belonging, and discover autonomy, freedom, and ownership as you work alongside talented people you enjoy sharing knowledge with.

We're proud to say we're an equal opportunity employer and welcome all applicants for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, age, disability status or any other protected characteristic. Should you need reasonable accommodations during the recruitment process, please let us know so that we can do our best to set you up for success.