Technical Project Lead (Energy Storage)
Pune, India
Job Description
Job Summary
The Technical Project Lead works with the offering management team to refine product requirements and turn them into product specifications that drive cross-functional team development. This role leads the development teams through the NPD process cycle at a technical level (as opposed to high-level program management) to make sure the end product meets the requirements.
This role will focus on Vertiv Energy Storage product line offerings. The individual will be responsible for understanding product requirements and developing technical product specifications that will drive the cross-functional development teams. This role works through the entire product development cycle to make sure the R&D team stays on schedule and meets the original market requirements. Close collaboration between offering management, system engineering, mechanical engineering, product engineering, firmware engineering, agency compliance, and product integrity teams.
Responsibilities
- Drive requirements refinement, specification development, and task tracking through iterative review cycles.
- Hold authority on system design decisions as they pertain to meeting market requirements for energy storage products.
- Translate detailed technical development plans into simplified project milestones for executive tracking purposes.
- Must track development progress vs plan and manage resource needs to stay on schedule.
- Provide technical support and leadership to product development teams as the first step in the escalation path if issues or questions arise. Escalate major issues to the appropriate resources and pursue to closure.
- Work with cross-functional teams (Offering Management, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical/System Engineering, Firmware Engineering, Engineering Test) to create development plans and strategy and bring products from ideation to concept and market launch. Example development stages:
- Requirements definition and enrichment by collaborating with cross-functional teams (Service, Sales, Manufacturing, etc.)
- Detailed specification breakdown and work/task breakdown based on higher-level requirements
- Concept development and refinement
- Validation test planning and prototype planning
- Full product or platform development and release into the PLM system
- Prototype part ordering and local assembly
- Prototype validation testing
- Final conformance to specification checks and manufacturing handoff
- Track and report on team and individual performance to management and executive leadership.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in Engineering (Electrical preferred)
- 3–4 years of relevant experience in project management on power converters, energy storage, and electrical engineering
- SMC (Scrum Master Certification) not required, but a plus
- PMP (Project Management Professional) not required, but a plus
- Prefer experience with power conversion, battery energy storage systems (BESS), or related power electronics product development
- Prefer experience with power lab testing for converters / energy storage systems
- Must be proficient in Microsoft Office
- Prefer experience with PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) software, such as Agile or Oracle Product Development
- Prefer experience leading teams to show task breakdown, prioritization, and management across a group of people
- Prefer experience with Agile/Scrum project framework
The successful candidate will embrace Vertiv's Core Principles & Behaviors to help execute our Strategic Priorities.
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Vertiv (NYSE: VRT) brings together hardware, software, analytics and ongoing services to enable its customers' vital applications to 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 extend from the cloud to the edge of the network. Headquartered in Westerville, Ohio, USA, Vertiv employs around 34,000 people and does business in more than 130 countries. Visit Vertiv.com to learn more.
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Job Info
Job Title Technical Project Lead (Energy Storage) Job Category Electrical & Electronics Engineering Location Pune, India Product Line Energy Storage Experience 3–4 years relevant experience Education Bachelor's Degree in Engineering (Electrical preferred)Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, preferably Electrical Engineering
- 3–4 years of relevant project management experience involving power converters, energy storage, and electrical engineering
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office
- SMC Scrum Master Certification
- PMP Project Management Professional certification
- Experience with power conversion, battery energy storage systems, or related power electronics product development
- Experience with power lab testing for converters or energy storage systems
- Experience with PLM software such as Agile or Oracle Product Development
- Experience leading teams through task breakdown, prioritization, and management
- Experience with Agile or Scrum project frameworks
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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.
