[Hiring] Data Center COE Project Management Leader @ABB

Role Description

This role leads the performance, quality, and continuous improvement of field service operations, ensuring customers receive safe, reliable, and high‑value support across every engagement. You’ll shape service strategy, strengthen operational excellence, and guide a high‑performing technical team while maintaining strong customer relationships and a culture of safety, compliance, and accountability.

The work model for the role is: Remote in the US.

This role is contributing to the ELSE Data Center Services Center of Excellence in the United States.

Core Responsibilities:

• Shape and execute project‑delivery strategy aligned with global business goals, driving efficient processes, strong contract/claim management, accurate documentation, and continuous improvement based on lessons learned.
• Ensure a superior customer experience by maintaining strong customer focus, resolving escalated issues, identifying operational improvement opportunities on‑site, and relentlessly driving customer satisfaction and retention.
• Manage a team and oversee portfolio‑level project management through reviews, proper project closure, KPI achievement (revenue, utilization, margin, satisfaction), and alignment with sales on planning, bids, estimating, and resource forecasting.
• Improve operational and service performance by forecasting consulting pipelines, enhancing project‑management practices, proposing strategic efficiency improvements, and maintaining tight collaboration with internal stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering preferred (Master’s degree or MBA is a plus)
• 10+ years of relevant industry experience
• Backgrounds in service, project management, switchgear, power delivery, and familiarity with ABB solutions preferred
• Candidates must already have work authorization that would permit them to work for ABB in the US.

Benefits

• Health, Life & Disability
• Choice between two medical plan options: A PPO plan called the Copay Plan OR a High Deductible Health Plan (with a Health Savings Account) called the High Deductible Plan.
• Choice between two dental plan options: Core and Core Plus
• Vision benefit
• Company paid life insurance (2X base pay)
• Company paid AD&D (1X base pay)
• Voluntary life and AD&D – 100% employee paid up to maximums
• Short Term Disability – up to 26 weeks – Company paid
• Long Term Disability – 60% of pay – Company paid. Ability to “buy-up” to 66 2/3% of pay.
• Supplemental benefits – 100% employee paid (Accident insurance, hospital indemnity, critical illness, pet insurance)
• Parental Leave – up to 6 weeks
• Employee Assistance Program
• Health Advocate support resources for mental/behavioral health, general health navigation and virtual health, and infertility/adoption
• Employee discount program
• Retirement
• 401k Savings Plan with Company Contributions
• Employee Stock Acquisition Plan (ESAP)
• ABB provides 11 paid holidays.
• Salaried exempt positions are provided vacation under a permissive time away policy.

Company Description

ABB is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer for protected Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities at ABB. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their sex (gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation), marital status, citizenship, age, race and ethnicity, inclusive of traits historically associated with race or ethnicity, including but not limited to hair texture and protective hairstyles, color, religious creed, national origin, pregnancy, physical or mental disability, genetic information, protected Veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal and state law.

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