Manager 3, Program Management Engineering

About the role

Western Digital is looking for a Manager 3, Program Management Engineering in Si Maha Phot, Thailand. The role leads yield and quality issues through the engineering core team, manages product configuration matrices and engineering changes, and provides technical leadership on supply, quality and customer qualifications. It is a full-time position.

Key responsibilities

• Monitor and report product yield and key parameters, and manage the associated KPI improvement roadmap.
• Lead the engineering core team in root cause analysis of yield and quality issues.
• Manage the implementation and maintenance of the product configuration matrix of manufacturing test and feature codes.
• Bring product swimlane SCT L2-L3 changes to approval and prioritise engineering changes and customer qualifications.
• Provide technical leadership on supply, quality, customer qualifications and engineering changes.
• Represent RSS/SME in resolving head/media/servo/mechanical/electronic process and component issues to meet engineering, quality and cost KPIs.
• Liaise with RSS/SME on deployment strategy before high-volume manufacturing, and work with Procurement and SQE on supply issues that threaten continuity.
• Communicate manufacturing design and lesson-learn issues to the sustaining core team and drive their implementation.
• In a quality stop order, run the SSO process and lead the core team through containment, disposition, root cause and corrective actions (accountable for D4 through D8 of the 8D process).
• Take part in new product MRR reviews, approve product release and assume product ownership in VPR.
• Align new product KPI strategies and cost roadmaps with execution capability in HVM, and coordinate with Development EPM on pre-VPR engineering changes.
• Prioritise, project manage and implement IP firmware and customer-related requirements and requests across sites and products.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Engineering or a related field.
• At least 5-10 years in management level and 3 years' experience in HDD manufacturing.
• Fluent English communication.
• Preferred: knowledge of HDD fundamentals, processes and technology, HDD quality management and operational management.
• Preferred: previous experience as an Engineering Program Manager or Product Engineer.

Required skills

• People management and development
• Strategic planning
• Risk and crisis management
• Problem solving and decision making
• Good interpersonal skills, proactive and accountable