Hardware Test Program Manager: On-Time Shipments

UST; Fremont (CA); On-site; USD 88,000 - 132,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) with employer matching

Health, dental, and vision insurance

Paid time off and holidays

HSAs and FSAs

Job summary

UST is seeking a Technical Program Manager to drive test programs, ensure server and rack readiness, and secure on-time shipment by the committed date. You will lead cross-functional teams through planning, testing, qualification, and release, while maintaining schedules and proactive risk mitigation.

The role requires strong program management skills, experience with hardware/test environments, and the ability to drive accountability across multiple teams.

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years of experience in Project Management, Program Management, NPI Operations, Manufacturing Operations, Supply Chain, Logistics, or related field.
• Proven ability to drive complex cross-functional projects from planning through delivery.
• Strong critical-path planning, risk management, dependency management, and recovery planning skills.
• Ability to influence teams and drive accountability without direct authority.
• Strong project planning, milestone management, follow-up, and organizational skills.

Responsibilities

• Own program execution from build and hardware readiness through test completion and shipment release.
• Develop and maintain detailed project schedules that align server and rack availability, test milestones, qualification, and shipment dates.
• Drive cross-functional teams to meet committed build, test, qualification, and shipment milestones.
• Monitor critical-path activities and drive recovery actions when the schedule is at risk.
• Hold action owners accountable for deliverables and committed deadlines.
• Ensure servers and racks are available to Test Engineering by the required date.
• Confirm materials, firmware, test flows, tooling, documentation, and required resources are ready before test starts.
• Drive daily and weekly action-item reviews and follow up with owners to ensure commitments and deadlines are met.
• Track test progress, qualification status, open failures, and readiness for shipment release.
• Maintain accurate schedules, dashboards, status reports, action logs, and execution trackers.
• Identify cross-functional dependencies affecting schedule or readiness.
• Coordinate with Test Engineering, Network Engineering, Hardware Engineering, Manufacturing, Quality, Supply Chain, Software, and TPM teams to remove blockers.
• Track risks, issues, dependencies, and gating items through closure.
• Escalate unresolved gating issues, schedule risks, resource constraints, and blockers to the TPM and appropriate leadership, including clear impact, owner, required decision, and target resolution date.
• Coordinate readiness reviews for test, manufacturing, qualification, and shipment activities.
• Monitor shipment milestones and drive closure of issues affecting customer commitments.
• Confirm exit criteria and required approvals are complete before shipment.
• Lead execution meetings, milestone reviews, and action-item follow-ups.
• Align stakeholders on priorities, schedules, risks, dependencies, and deliverables.
• Provide concise and accurate program updates to TPMs, engineering teams, manufacturing, and leadership.
• Support customer and internal reviews with current schedule, status, risk, and readiness information.

Skills

Project Management

Cross-functional leadership

Risk management

Scheduling & planning

Stakeholder communication

Jira

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Project

PMP

Negotiation

Education

Bachelor's degree (preferred)

Tools

Jira

Smartsheet

Microsoft Project

JD Edwards

Job description

UST is seeking a Technical Program Manager to drive test programs, ensure server and rack readiness, and secure on-time shipment by the committed date. You will lead cross-functional teams through planning, testing, qualification, and release, while maintaining schedules and proactive risk mitigation.

The role requires strong program management skills, experience with hardware/test environments, and the ability to drive accountability across multiple teams.