Vice President Operations, North America

At Hitachi Energy, we’re powering progress by tackling one of the most urgent challenges of our time: balancing soaring electricity demand with the need to decarbonize the power system. As a global leader in grid technologies, we’re seeking a passionate Vice President of Operations to lead operations across North America for our Distribution Transformer business unit. This remote-based role offers a unique opportunity to influence the future of sustainable power infrastructure through growth, safety, quality, and continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

• Implement the North America strategy, ensuring business development and sustainable growth in the market.
• Achieve established targets through regular oversight and definition of improvement actions.
• Lead, own, and secure year-on-year operational targets, including Health, Safety, and Environment (HSE), Quality, and P&L set by the North America BU leadership.
• Enhance Distribution Transformers North America performance and ensure timely reporting of operational and financial results.
• Lead and orchestrate the local team, consisting of direct line reports and North America functions, to ensure overall operational capacity and capability.
• Ensure timely delivery of products, projects, and services, meeting targets for HSE, quality, schedule, financial results, and customer satisfaction.
• Align Distribution Transformers for North America with the North America and Global Product Group strategy to ensure common focus and targets.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with new and existing customers to ensure customer satisfaction.
• Drive culture and behavioral change to continuously improve performance in compliance, productivity, delivery, and cost optimization.
• Ensure project quality capacity aligns with operational requirements to support the delivery of customer projects.
• Implement HSE and business compliance standards and regulations, both internal and country-specific, within the units.
• Maintain a secure work environment, implement ongoing HSE improvement processes, and uphold integrity performance.
• Ensure the area of responsibility is properly organized, staffed, skilled, and directed.
• Guide, motivate, and develop subordinates according to HR policies.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Business Administration, Marketing, or a related field.
• Preferred: Master's Degree (MBA or a Master's in a relevant field).
• 10 to 15 years’ experience in factory management and implementation of Lean principles in a traditional manufacturing environment.
• Proven track record of leading teams and managing projects with strategic oversight of a specific product or product group.
• Experience managing manufacturing units in multiple locations and geographies.
• Must have permanent US work authorization.

Pay

Competitive base compensation of $225K - $290K plus incentives based on experience.