Manager 4, Program Management Engineering

Company Description

At Western Digital, we are on a mission to unlock the potential of data so people, companies and organizations everywhere can create what’s next. To fulfill our vision, we are always on the lookout for potential team members who share our passion for solving problems to empower others.

When you join Western Digital, you join a legacy more than 50 years in the making. Across our Western Digital®, SanDisk®, SanDisk® Professional, WD® and WD_BLACK™ brands, we have brought some of the most storied advancements in memory and data storage technology to market—and our best, most innovative work is yet to come.

From energizing gaming platforms, to enabling systems to make cities safer and cars smarter and more connected, to powering the data centers behind many of the world’s biggest companies and public cloud, Western Digital is fueling a brighter, smarter future.

Here’s how you can help.

Job Description

The Sustaining Program Manager (SPM) leads & drives deliverables through Sustaining Core Team (SCT) with full program/s ownership by prioritizing resources to ensure sustaining products (higher volume products) consistently meet volume requirement, quality & reliability, engineering KPI and cost goals.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Obtain customer-specific product requirements, assess and recommend engineering solutions, upon approval from SCT, drive execution to meet customer requirements in a timely manner.
• Define and drive product recipe ramp and depletion strategy that meets overall customer and WD business needs.
• Accountable and focal point to overall product cost for sustaining products with finance collaboration to define optimized product cost strategy and drive execution.
• Establish and maintain a business process to ensure support from product cost (sub category) owners to deliver to BCP commits.
• Collaborate with KPI owners to align and rationalize roadmaps ensuring consistent product strategy and execution.
• Monitor overall engineering KPI performance and support KPI owners to address gaps vs plan.
• Collaborate with quality team to define and prioritize product quality improvement strategy.
• Monitor overall quality KPI performance and support quality team to address gaps vs plan.
• In event of quality stop order, execute SSO process and lead core team to define containment, disposition, drives root cause and corrective actions that meet optimized business objectives.
• Participate in new product Manufacturing Readiness Review (MRR) and approve product release to assume product ownership in LVM.
• Participate in new product KPI underpinning strategy and ensure all KPI and cost roadmaps are aligned to execution capability in HVM. 

Qualifications

REQUIRED: 

• Bachelor degree with Engineering related majors
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience and proven record in program or project management leadership position
• Strong computer skills including MS Office products, MS Project and etc.
• Excellent communication skills, including written, verbal and presentation skills
• Good problem solving and decision making, Pro-active & initiatives and strong sense of accountability.

PREFERRED: 

• Experience with Semiconductor, PCBA (SMT) manufacturing and test processes.
• Familiar with Product Life Cycle and new product development processes
• Strong in strategic planning and Risk/Critical management skills
• Ability to manage multiple projects and priorities, and to interact with a diverse group of individuals in a very fast and dynamic environments.

SKILLS:

• Proven track record on people development & management; building, mentoring and inspiring a team.
• Data analytic skills and result oriented
• Ability to drive change and improvements within the team.

Additional Information

Western Digital thrives on the power and potential of diversity. As a global company, we believe the most effective way to embrace the diversity of our customers and communities is to mirror it from within. We believe the fusion of various perspectives results in the best outcomes for our employees, our company, our customers, and the world around us. We are committed to an inclusive environment where every individual can thrive through a sense of belonging, respect and contribution.

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