Hardware Program Coordinator

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is seeking a Hardware Program Coordinator to join the HPE Enterprise Storage team. This role supports both new product development and sustaining engineering activities for complex enterprise storage systems.

Responsibilities:

• Coordinate material readiness, procurement, and lifecycle management for mechanical and electrical hardware across new product development, prototype builds, product changes, and sustaining engineering activities.
• Partner with mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, program management, and release management to define configurations, build quantities, milestones, schedules, part numbers, and assembly structures.
• Create, maintain, and release part numbers, bills of material (BOMs), engineering change documentation, specifications, drawings, and product records in Agile PLM and Windchill PLM.
• Manage request for quotation (RFQ) activities, evaluate supplier and contract manufacturer quotes, support vendor selection, and track cost, delivery, quality, and technical issue resolution.
• Create, track, reconcile, and close purchase orders, material requests, and purchasing-card transactions while verifying commodity and general ledger coding.
• Identify long-lead components and material-availability risks, expedite orders, maintain material coverage for planned builds, sustaining needs, and rework, and escalate schedule or availability threats.
• Maintain mechanical, printed circuit board (PCB), and printed circuit assembly (PCA) prototype and sustaining build schedules; confirm materials, approved stack-ups, programmable content, and special build instructions are ready before build start.
• Coordinate BOM, drawing, and configuration changes with suppliers and contract manufacturers, including timely and secure transfer of controlled release data.
• Serve as the primary coordination point across engineering teams, program managers, suppliers, and contract manufacturers; communicate status, dependencies, risks, decisions, and action items.
• Support invoice readiness, return material authorization (RMA) activity, customs classifications, laboratory equipment acquisition, and quarter-end purchasing deliverables.
• Develop and improve repeatable processes for documentation control, procurement, configuration management, supplier coordination, prototype builds, and sustaining execution.

Requirements:

• Experience in hardware project coordination, hardware program management, engineering operations, new product development, sustaining engineering, prototype operations, procurement, manufacturing operations, or a related engineering support role.
• Working knowledge of bills of material (BOMs), part-number structures, engineering change orders, configuration management, purchasing workflows, material planning, and supplier management.
• Experience coordinating prototype, pre-production, or sustaining hardware builds involving mechanical parts, electronic components, PCBs, or PCAs.
• Ability to manage concurrent schedules, purchase activities, dependencies, risks, and deliverables in a fast-paced product-development and sustaining environment.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to convert detailed program status into clear actions, decisions, and escalations.
• Strong attention to detail in technical documentation, cost tracking, order reconciliation, data accuracy, and configuration control.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with engineering, program management, release management, finance, suppliers, and contract manufacturers.

Benefits:

• Comprehensive suite of benefits that supports physical, financial, and emotional wellbeing.
• Investment in career development and growth.
• Unconditional inclusion and celebration of individual uniqueness.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with enterprise storage, servers, networking products, data-center hardware, or other complex electromechanical systems.
• Hands-on experience with Agile PLM, Windchill PLM, SAP S/4, or another product lifecycle management or enterprise resource planning system.
• Knowledge of PCB/PCA manufacturing, component sourcing, contract manufacturing, prototype material planning, and electronics hardware development processes.
• Experience with engineering change orders, controlled technical data, build instructions, RMA workflows, customs classifications, or supplier agreements.
• Familiarity with Microsoft Excel, project tracking tools, purchasing systems, and supplier performance reporting.