Onsite Engineering Lab Manager for HPC & Hardware

Hewlett Packard Enterprise; Chippewa Falls (WI); On-site; USD 96,000 - 221,000; Full time

Job summary

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is seeking an Engineering Lab Manager to lead safe, efficient lab operations in Chippewa Falls, WI. The role focuses on IT hardware development environments, rack integration, GPU/CPU systems, and ODM programs, ensuring resources align with schedules and deliverables.

You will supervise lab capacity planning, asset tracking, and cross‑functional collaboration with facilities, safety, quality, and IT teams.

Qualifications

• Requires a Bachelor's degree in a technical field and 5+ years in an engineering lab, data center, or similar setting.
• Experience with lab safety, maintenance, and cross-team coordination.
• Strong communication skills in English.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary lab operations contact for engineering, program management, manufacturing, quality, IT, facilities, logistics, suppliers, and customer teams.
• Ensure lab processes are documented clearly enough for repeatable execution across technicians, engineers, programs, and customer engagements.
• Monitor power utilization, cooling capacity, cable routing, rack density, and lab environmental conditions to prevent safety or operational risks.
• Develop forward-looking lab capacity plans aligned to program roadmaps, customer demand, prototype schedules, and validation workloads.
• Maintain clear lab organization standards for hardware, tools, cables, fixtures, test equipment, consumables, and customer-owned assets.
• Coordinate with facilities, environmental health and safety, security, quality, and compliance teams to maintain audit readiness.
• Own lab asset tracking for servers, racks, blades, switches, PDUs, tooling, fixtures, cables, test equipment, customer-owned hardware, and prototype inventory.
• Communicate lab status, capacity concerns, safety issues, schedule risks, and resource needs to leadership and program stakeholders.

Skills

Analytical skills

Problem-solving

AutoCAD

Data center experience

Excellent communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical/Mechanical Engineering or related field

Tools

AutoCAD

Job description

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is seeking an Engineering Lab Manager to lead safe, efficient lab operations in Chippewa Falls, WI. The role focuses on IT hardware development environments, rack integration, GPU/CPU systems, and ODM programs, ensuring resources align with schedules and deliverables.

You will supervise lab capacity planning, asset tracking, and cross‑functional collaboration with facilities, safety, quality, and IT teams.