Senior Engineer - Project Management （T10）
The Program Engineer – Power Solutions and Distribution will manage the development and execution of new products within the Power Solutions and Distribution Product Line, part of the Power Management Business Unit. This role is needed to support the expansion of the product line portfolio, which is increasing in both size and complexity.
The role will primarily focus on New Product Development / New Product Introduction programs managed through the Vertiv NPDI process, while also supporting selected initiatives related to existing products, including sustaining, regionalization, cost-out, compliance, lifecycle management, and engineering change projects.
The successful candidate will be expected to independently manage high-complexity programs with limited supervision, leading cross-functional teams through influence, structure, accountability, and strong execution control.
The role reports to the Product Line Engineering Manager.
What kind of work will you be doing?
- Lead and manage multiple cross-functional projects and programs within the PSD Product Line.
- Own projects execution from initiation to launch, ensuring clear planning, disciplined execution, and alignment with the Vertiv NPDI process.
- Drive project scope, schedule, cost, quality, resources, risks, dependencies, and deliverables to ensure successful achievement of business and technical objectives.
- Prepare and support NPDI gate reviews, milestone reviews, governance meetings, and launch readiness assessments.
- Maintain strong execution control through project dashboards, integrated schedules, risk registers, issue logs, action trackers, decision logs, and executive status reporting.
- Lead cross-functional teams without direct authority, driving accountability across Engineering, Product Management, Operations, Supply Chain, Service, Quality, Finance, Sales, Compliance/Certification, and regional teams.
- Ensure stakeholder alignment on priorities, risks, trade-offs, decisions, escalations, and recovery plans.
- Identify, track, and manage risks, issues, dependencies, and changes, ensuring timely escalation and resolution.
- Support financial tracking against approved project budgets, business cases, and cost targets.
- Ensure project documentation is complete, accurate, traceable, and aligned with NPDI governance requirements.
- Support regionalization, sustaining, cost-out, compliance/certification, platform development, lifecycle, and engineering change initiatives as required.
- Communicate project status clearly and concisely to leadership and stakeholders, including key achievements, risks, decisions required, and corrective actions.
- Promote a culture of ownership, execution discipline, accountability, and continuous improvement within the project teams.
What will make you successful?
Required Qualifications
- At least 4-5 years of strong project or program management experience, preferably in complex industrial, manufacturing, engineering, or technology environments.
- Proven ability to independently manage high-complexity, cross-functional programs with limited supervision.
- Demonstrated experience managing scope, schedule, cost, quality, resources, risks, issues, dependencies, and stakeholder alignment.
- Strong experience with structured project governance, project reporting, milestone tracking, action management, and executive communication.
- Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams without direct authority and drive accountability across functions.
- Strong communication, problem-solving, decision-making, conflict management, and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to work effectively in a global, matrixed organization across regions and functions.
Preferred Qualifications
- Engineering degree or equivalent technical education.
- Project management certification such as PMP, PRINCE2, or equivalent would be preferable
- Experience with new product introduction, new product development, stage-gate processes, or NPDI governance.
- Experience with power electronics, UPS systems, power converters, industrial products, electrical engineering, embedded controls, or mechanical/electrical integration.
Key Skills and Behaviors
- Strong execution control and project discipline
- Leadership without direct authority
- Ownership mindset and accountability
- Structured and concise communication
- Stakeholder influence and alignment
- Risk and issue management
- Decision-making under complexity
- Conflict management
- Resilience under pressure
- Executive presence
- Sense of urgency
- Ability to simplify complexity and drive clarity
- Strong documentation and governance discipline
Skills Required
- 4-5 years of project or program management experience in industrial, manufacturing, engineering, or technology environments
- Proven ability to independently manage high-complexity, cross-functional programs
- Experience managing scope, schedule, cost, quality, resources, risks, issues, and dependencies
- Strong experience with structured project governance, reporting, milestone tracking, action management, and executive communication
- Ability to lead cross-functional teams without direct authority and drive accountability
- Strong communication, problem-solving, decision-making, conflict management, and stakeholder management skills
- Ability to work effectively in a global, matrixed organization across regions and functions
- Engineering degree or equivalent technical education
- Project management certification such as PMP, PRINCE2, or equivalent
- Experience with new product introduction, stage-gate processes, or NPDI governance
- Experience with power electronics, UPS systems, power converters, embedded controls, or mechanical/electrical integration
What We Do
Vertiv (NYSE: VRT) brings together hardware, software, analytics and ongoing services to ensure its customers’ vital applications run continuously, perform optimally and grow with their business needs. Vertiv solves the most important challenges facing today’s data centers, communication networks and commercial and industrial facilities with a portfolio of power, cooling and IT infrastructure solutions and services that extends from the cloud to the edge of the network. Headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, USA, Vertiv employs approximately 20,000 people and does business in more than 130 countries. For more information, and for the latest news and content from Vertiv, visit Vertiv.com.
