Program Coordinator

Contract: 12 Months+

Client embedded business unit is looking for a strong program coordinator for the R&D operation’s team.

R&D operations include all aspects OpEx and CapEx planning and attainment, labor headcount planning and tracking, long-range and annual operational planning, inventory management, hardware planning and management, build and test reference systems, and shipping/receiving.

Key Responsibilities:

• Build and test development APU/GPU/CPU reference boards prior to sending for customers, ensuring all software/firmware components are current.
• Manage development system inventory, including managing inventory locations, tracking location of all inventory and keeping inventory database up-to-date, delivering inventory when required, generating monthly reports, and helping to audit current inventory.
• Help plan and execute process for receiving customer orders for development hardware and shipping hardware to customer.
• Perform shipping and receiving for R&D team, keeping detailed logs and generating reports as required.
• Consolidate new product hardware orders and orders from customers and enter them into our order management system.
• Help support the engineering labs.
• Work with Program Managers and Director to meet required timelines and commitments.

Preferred Experience:

• Strong program coordinator skills including familiarity with Microsoft products; Outlook, SharePoint, Word, and Excel.
• Ability to analyze data and generate reports.
• Familiarity with basic computer software and hardware operation, installing software and ability to perform minor debug.
• Ability to solder is a plus.
• Must be able to lift 50-pounds.
• Self-starter that looks to create and enhance processes to improve overall team efficiency.
• Team player with passion and hunger to do whatever it takes for business success.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Excellent skills of managing up with right set of data/reports to executives for visibility and decision making.
• o Ability to align, resolve conflicts and build consensus among parties working towards the final goal.

o High sense of urgency, discipline, and drive for results.

o Relentless focus on operational excellence.

Academic Credentials:

• Associate degree with 5+ years of overall corporate experience (experience in BU engineering operations role will be a big plus).