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Western Digital

Makes hard drives for cloud and AI data centers

Program Management Engineering Manager

Program ManagementConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeSi Maha Phot District, Prachin Buri, ThailandNo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • A bachelor's degree or higher in Engineering or a related field is required.
  • At least 5–10 years of management-level experience and 3 years of experience in HDD manufacturing are required.
  • Fluent English communication is required.
  • HDD fundamental knowledge is preferred.
  • Knowledge of HDD processes and technology is preferred.
  • HDD quality management knowledge is preferred.
  • Operational management experience is preferred.
  • Previous experience as an Engineering Program Manager or in Product Engineering is preferred.
  • People management and development skills are required.
  • Strategic planning skills are required.
  • Risk and crisis management skills are required.
  • Problem-solving and decision-making skills are required.

Responsibilities

  • Monitor and report product yield and key parameters, and manage the associated KPI improvement roadmap.
  • Serve as the primary lead working through the engineering core team to find root causes of yield and quality issues.
  • Manage implementation and maintain the product configuration matrix of manufacturing test and featuring-code changes.
  • Bring product/swimlane SCT L2–L3 changes for approval and prioritization of engineering changes and customer qualification.
  • Provide technical leadership on supply, quality, customer qualifications, and engineering changes.
  • Represent RSS/SME in resolutions of Head/Media/Servo/Mechanical/Electronic processes and components to meet engineering KPIs, quality KPIs, and cost objectives.
  • Liaise with RSS/SME on deployment strategy for Head/Media/Servo/Mechanical/Electronic processes and components before HVM.
  • Work with Procurement/SQE to facilitate resolution of Head/Media/Servo/Mechanical/Electronic process and component issues that threaten supply continuity.
  • Communicate manufacturing-related design and lessons learned to the sustaining core team.
  • Ensure sPM drives lessons learned for implementation in other sustaining and development programs.
  • In the event of a quality stop order, execute the SSO process and lead the core team to define containment and disposition, drive root cause analysis and corrective actions, and meet optimized business objectives; be accountable for D4 through D8 of the 8D process.
  • Participate in new-product MRR reviews and approve product release to assume product ownership in VPR.
  • Participate in new-product KPI underpinning strategy and ensure KPI and cost roadmaps align with execution capability in HVM.
  • Coordinate with Development EPM on remaining development efforts required to complete pre-VPR engineering changes, such as manufacturing test-code and design changes, by exception.
  • Liaise with Development EPM to prioritize changes, project-manage and implement IP Firmware and customer-related requirements and requests, and ensure common implementation of improvements and corrective actions for IP Firmware and customer-related issues across sites and products.

About the Company

Western Digital

Makes hard drives for cloud and AI data centers

Western Digital, which goes by WD, designs and makes hard disk drives, mostly the high-capacity models that cloud and AI data centers use to store huge amounts of data cheaply. In 2013, its HGST unit shipped the first helium-filled hard drives, which fit more disks into each drive and use less power. Its drives store data on stacks of spinning magnetic disks, and the lineup runs from Ultrastar data center drives to WD Red and WD Purple drives for home servers and security cameras. WD makes its money selling these drives to cloud companies, PC makers, and retail shoppers. Western Digital was founded in 1970 and is based in San Jose, California, and in 2025 it spun off its flash memory business as Sandisk.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
San Jose, CA
Founded
1970

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