End-to-End Hardware Program Manager

Powercast Corporation; Pittsburgh, Northern (Allegheny County, KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Powercast Corporation is seeking a Program Manager to lead end-to-end execution of complex hardware products that integrate mechanical, electrical, and firmware disciplines. You will act as the operational coordinator of the engineering organization, ensuring cross-functional teams stay aligned, mitigate risks early, and deliver multi-disciplinary products on schedule and within budget.

In this role you will drive detailed project schedules, manage design reviews and milestones from concept

Qualifications

• 10+ years of project or program management experience delivering physical hardware products containing mechanical, electrical, and embedded software/firmware components.
• Strong foundational understanding of the hardware product development lifecycle (NPI), PCB development cycles, mechanical tooling lead times, and firmware release cadences.
• Dependency mapping: track complex cross-team dependencies where software, electrical schematics, and mechanical dimensions intersect.
• Extensive experience in project management tools (MS Project, Smartsheet) applied to physical hardware workflows.
• Outstanding organizational and communication skills, with a track record of driving clarity across diverse engineering cultures (ME, EE, FW).

Responsibilities

• Cross-Disciplinary Coordination: Align ME, EE, FW, Operations, Quality and Commercial streams into a single execution plan and manage inter-discipline dependencies.
• Schedule & Milestone Management: Build and manage integrated schedules from concept through EVT, DVT, and PVT.
• Risk & Issue Mitigation: Facilitate regular cross-functional risk assessments and drive mitigation strategies across engineering disciplines.
• Prototyping & Bring-Up Operations: Coordinate prototype builds, lab testing schedules, and board bring-up sessions.
• Cross-Functional Communication: Serve as the primary contact for project status across Engineering, Product Management, Industrial Design, Quality, and Supply Chain.
• Process Standardization: Refine development processes, design review gates, change-management workflows, and project reporting.

Skills

Project management

Hardware lifecycle

Cross-functional coordination

MS Project

Communication skills

Firmware knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

MS Project

Smartsheet

Job description

Powercast Corporation is seeking a Program Manager to lead end-to-end execution of complex hardware products that integrate mechanical, electrical, and firmware disciplines. You will act as the operational coordinator of the engineering organization, ensuring cross-functional teams stay aligned, mitigate risks early, and deliver multi-disciplinary products on schedule and within budget.

In this role you will drive detailed project schedules, manage design reviews and milestones from concept