Hardware Technical Program Manager

Req ID: 141781
Region: Americas
Country: USA

Summary

Celestica is looking for a Hardware Technical Program Manager to lead complex programs at the intersection of engineering, operations, and customer delivery. You will create the integrated plan, establish the operating rhythm and keep the team foused on the decisions and evidence needed to deliver a high-qulaity hardware solution on time and at the expected cost.

This is an onsite position is our San Jose, CA office. 4x a week in office is required. Friday is typically our work from home day.

Detailed Description

What you’ll do:

• Own delivery: Plan and drive complex hardware programs from concept through launch, aligning scope, schedule, cost, quality, features, fulfillment, and customer-specific requirements.
• Lead the core team: Bring together engineering, operations, supply chain, quality, finance, manufacturing, and customer-facing teams; establish operating rhythm, decisions, and clear accountability.
• Build the plan: Create and maintain the integrated program plan, work breakdown structure, milestones, resource needs, dependencies, and readiness criteria.
• Control execution: Track progress against baseline, identify variance early, and drive corrective actions across design, integration, validation, manufacturing readiness, and deployment.
• Manage risk and change: Maintain visible risk, issue, and dependency management; lead trade-off discussions and implement approved changes through the product lifecycle process.
• Translate complexity: Turn technical and operational detail into concise updates on schedule, cost, risk, decisions, and customer impact for business leaders and stakeholders.
• Strengthen the system: Improve program-management practices, templates, governance, and cross-functional ways of working while sharing knowledge with other program leaders.

Knowledge/Skills/Competencies

What you bring

• Program leadership: Proven success leading complex, cross-functional hardware or systems programs with multiple workstreams and interdependencies.
• Technical fluency: Working knowledge of server, accelerated-compute, AI, or other technically complex products; able to engage credibly with design and systems engineers without needing to be the deepest technical expert.
• Execution discipline: Strong command of scope, schedule, resource planning, budget/forecast management, risk mitigation, change control, and program governance.
• Influence: Ability to align teams without direct authority, resolve conflicts, make decisions visible, and escalate issues with clear options and recommendations.
• Communication: Clear, concise written and verbal communication with engineers, operations teams, customers, and leadership.
• Adaptability: Comfort operating in fast-moving environments where requirements, technology, and priorities evolve.

Physical Demands

• Duties of this position are performed in a normal office environment.
• Duties may require extended periods of sitting and sustained visual concentration on a computer monitor or on numbers and other detailed data.
• Repetitive manual movements (e.g., data entry, using a computer mouse, using a calculator, etc.) are frequently required.
• Occasional travel may be required.

Salary

The stated range includes Base Salary and target Short-Term Incentive (STI) compensation only. A comprehensive benefits package is offered in addition to this range.

The salary range described in this posting is an estimate by the Company, and may change based on several factors, including by not limited to a change in the duties covered by the job posting, or the credentials, experience or geographic jurisdiction of the successful candidate.

$123K - 191K

The range described in this posting is an estimate by the Company, and may change based on several factors, including but not limited to a change in the duties covered by the job posting, or the credentials, experience or geographic jurisdiction of the successful candidate.

Typical Experience

• 8 + years of relevant experience in technical program management, hardware engineering, systems engineering, operations, or a related field.
• Experience with new product introduction, hardware integration, validation, manufacturing, supply-chain coordination, or customer delivery is strongly valued.

Typical Education

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, business, operations, or a related discipline, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Educational Requirements may vary by Geography.

Notes

This job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities of the position. Employees are held accountable for all duties of the job. Job duties and the % of time identified for any function are subject to change at any time.

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Celestica is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, pregnancy, genetic information, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other protected category under applicable federal, state, and local laws.
This policy applies to hiring, promotion, discharge, pay, fringe benefits, job training, classification, referral and other aspects of employment and also states that retaliation against a person who files a charge of discrimination, participates in a discrimination proceeding, or otherwise opposes an unlawful employment practice will not be tolerated. All information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
Celestica is an E-Verify employer.

Location: This is a remote position, with travel as necessary. We are open to considering candidates close to any of our US locations in Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Texas, Arizona, Oregon or California as well as locations near major airports such as the Northeast, Southeast, Midwest and Pacific Coast.

COMPANY OVERVIEW:
Celestica (NYSE, TSX: CLS) enables the world’s best brands. Through our recognized customer-centric approach, we partner with leading companies in Aerospace and Defense, Communications, Enterprise, HealthTech, Industrial, Capital Equipment and Energy to deliver solutions for their most complex challenges. As a leader in design, manufacturing, hardware platform and supply chain solutions, Celestica brings global expertise and insight at every stage of product development – from drawing board to full-scale production and after-market services for products from advanced medical devices, to highly engineered aviation systems, to next-generation hardware platform solutions for the Cloud. Headquartered in Toronto, with talented teams spanning 40+ locations in 13 countries across the Americas, Europe and Asia, we imagine, develop and deliver a better future with our customers.

Celestica would like to thank all applicants, however, only qualified applicants will be contacted.
Celestica does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruitment agencies or fee based recruitment services.