# Hardware Program Coordinator **Company**: Hewlett Packard Enterprise **Location**: Heredia, Heredia **Work arrangement**: hybrid **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Category**: Engineering **Industry**: Technology **Apply**: https://hpe.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Jobsathpe/job/Heredia-Heredia-Costa-Rica/Document-Control_1216291-2?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_af745f28-4a8 ## Description 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. For more fresh new jobs, check out [yubhub.co](https://yubhub.co/). ## Skills ### Required - hardware program coordination - engineering operations - procurement - configuration management - supplier coordination ### Nice to have - enterprise storage - Agile PLM - Windchill PLM - SAP S/4 - product lifecycle management - electronics hardware development --- Source: [Apply at hpe.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com](https://hpe.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Jobsathpe/job/Heredia-Heredia-Costa-Rica/Document-Control_1216291-2?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)