Operations R&D Manager

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Senior level
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The Role
The Operations R&D Manager oversees R&D projects, ensuring strategic planning, project execution, and cross-department collaboration while managing budgets and resources.
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Location:

Genoa, Ligura, Italy

Job ID:

R0113584

Date Posted:

2026-01-02

Company Name:

HITACHI ENERGY ITALY S.P.A.

Profession (Job Category):

Engineering & Science

Job Schedule: 

Full time

Remote:

No

Job Description:

The opportunity

This position is responsible for the strategic planning, project execution, and oversight of research and development projects within the operations domain, including project management and playing a pivotal role in bridging R&D with Manufacturing, Engineering and Supply Chain departments. This role ensures that innovation initiatives are delivered on time, within budget, and aligned with organizational goals. Acting as a central coordinator, the manager organizes resources, defines development processes, and drives cross-functional collaboration to bring new technologies and improvements from concept to implementation.

How you’ll make an impact:

  • Project Management: Plan, schedule, and monitor R&D projects, ensuring timely delivery and adherence to budget.

  • Resource Allocation: Coordinate internal and external resources, balancing workloads and optimizing team performance.

  • Process Development: Define and implement structured development processes, including stage-gate models, agile frameworks, or tailored methodologies.

  • Budget Control: Track project expenditures, forecast costs, and ensure financial discipline across R&D initiatives.

  • Intellectual Property and Risk Management: Identify project risks and develop mitigation strategies to ensure successful outcomes. Ensures actions are taken to manage the risks. Supports appropriate protection of newly created intellectual property and assists in defense and enforcement activities of related technology. Supports monitoring and alerting IP issues to higher level management.

  • Stakeholder Communication: Serve as the liaison between R&D, operations, manufacturing and supply chain, providing regular updates and aligning expectations.

  • Documentation & Reporting: Maintain comprehensive project documentation and performance metrics to support decision-making and continuous improvement.

  • Responsible for ensuring compliance with applicable external & internal regulations, procedures & guidelines

Your background:

  • Strong background in engineering, project management, or industrial operations.

  • Proven experience managing complex, multi-disciplinary R&D projects.

  • Proficiency in project management tools (e.g., MS Project, Jira, Asana) and methodologies (e.g., PMI, Agile, Lean).

  • Excellent organizational, analytical, and communication skills.

  • Ability to lead cross-functional teams and foster collaboration.

More about us

We offer you the opportunity to work with fantastic people and develop yourself on projects that present great technical challenges and have a real impact. 

Qualified individuals with a disability may request a reasonable accommodation if you are unable or limited in your ability to use or access the Hitachi Energy career site as a result of your disability. You may request reasonable accommodations by completing a general inquiry form on our website. Please include your contact information and specific details about your required accommodation to support you during the job application process.This is solely for job seekers with disabilities requiring accessibility assistance or an accommodation in the job application process. Messages left for other purposes will not receive a response. 

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Asana
JIRA
Lean
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The Company
33,676 Employees

What We Do

Since its founding in 1910, Hitachi has responded to the expectations of society and its customers through technology and innovation. Our mission is to “Contribute to society through the development of superior, original technology and products.” Over the past 100+ years this commitment has led us to work towards creating a more sustainable society through our “Social Innovation Business”. We work to apply our expertise in information technology (IT), operational technology (OT), and a wide variety of products to advance social infrastructure systems and improve quality of life across the world.

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