Hardware Program Coordinator

Document ControlThis role has been designed as 'Hybrid' with a requirement that you will work on average 2 days per week from an HPE office.

Job Description:

HPE 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, including hardware development, prototype builds, product changes, and ongoing lifecycle support. You will coordinate mechanical and electrical documentation, bills of material (BOMs), purchasing, suppliers, contract manufacturers, engineering changes, product lifecycle management (PLM) records, and build schedules from early development through sustaining support. The ideal candidate brings experience in hardware program coordination, engineering operations, procurement

What You’ll Do

• 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.

What You’ll Bring

• 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.

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.

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