Hardware Engineering Program Manager

Microsoft’s Cloud business is experiencing explosive growth, and the Cloud Supply Chain (CSCP) organization is responsible for enabling the infrastructure underlying this growth. Our mission is to deliver the world’s computer with an industry-leading supply chain. CSCP is responsible for strategic sourcing, customer demand forecasting, capacity planning and management, supply chain planning and execution, capacity provisioning, and decommissioning and dispositioning of datacenter assets worldwide.

Looking to be a key part of one of Microsoft’s fastest-growing businesses? We have a great position for you, Hardware Engineering Program Manager. Azure is at the center of enabling cloud computing for Microsoft services and our public cloud business. The Product Data Management Engineering Team is responsible for the design, implementation, and delivery of several Hardware offerings to support Azure technologies in Mission Critical Data Centers.  

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Minimum Qualifications

· Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, operations research, production engineering, or a related technical field.

Preferred Qualifications:

· Should have 3 to 5 years of work experience in the high-tech, electronics, or automobile industries, with at least 2 years of specialized technical experience in product engineering, New Product Development, with supply chain domain knowledge.

· Experience in continuous improvement using data leading to efforts savings / cycle time reductions / cost savings preferable

· Excellent communication and presentation skills

· Strong analytical skills and adept at using data for proactive problem-solving skills

· Must be comfortable working with ambiguity and demonstrate growth mindset to learn and embrace changes.

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Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

This is a great opportunity to join a dynamic team and influence the way one of the world’s largest and fastest growing Cloud environments is built and supported.  As a critical part of the Product Data Management Hardware Engineering (PDME) team within Microsoft’s CSCP Organization, this role will work with internal stakeholders to create Building Blocks, product Bill of Materials (BOM) and Row level hardware design documentation and product data model in PDM tool. You will ensure that the design documentation conforms to Data Centre Infrastructure standards. This role requires basic industry knowledge in PDME engineering domain. Reads hardware specification sheets to create robust design structures, and dashboards. Follows project schedule to deliver the hardware structure aspects of a product. Assists to help develop product plans and communicate status with team throughout the program. Documents details for a hardware, and tracks changes to designs.

Roles and responsibilities:

• Work with enterprise-class servers and networking to create product structure and bill of materials used to deploy hardware into Data Centre

• Assists in data gathering and product data structuring in PDM system using established criteria

• Reads specification sheets and interprets common details required to structure various hardware design

• Analyze and structure appropriate parts needed to support product development during NPI with hardware engineering team

• Implements and tracks product SKU release plans, under guidance from other engineers

• Assists in developing training materials, documents, and templates, under guidance from a manager

• Participates in the development of dashboards or reports for metrics

• Contributes to program schedule to deliver the engineering aspects and communicates project progress/status within the team and escalates issues as necessary.

• Assists opportunities that affect downstream execution to resolve issues

• Create, update, and maintain the design and supply chain characteristics using PDM system

Validate the configuration and work with the PDM hardware engineering team to resolve any issues through the PLM and workflow tools