Technical Program Manager, Mechanical Supplier Quality, Data Centers
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Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 5 years of experience in program or technical program management.
- Experience with design, manufacturing, or operation of mechanical, standby-power, or HVAC infrastructure equipment.
- Experience in supplier quality management with systems deploying to mission critical facilities.
Preferred qualifications:
- Certifications in Six Sigma Blackbelt, Auditor, American Society for Quality (CSQP, CQE, CQM, CRE, or CQA) or equivalent certification.
- 5 years of experience managing cross-functional or cross-team projects.
- Knowledge of mechanical standards applied to mission critical operations (e.g., ANSI, ASME, APQP, other).
- Knowledge of mechanical and HVAC infrastructure equipment installation/deployment at data centers or other mission critical facilities.
About the job
A problem isn’t truly solved until it’s solved for all. That’s why Googlers build products that help create opportunities for everyone, whether down the street or across the globe. As a Technical Program Manager at Google, you’ll use your technical expertise to lead complex, multi-disciplinary projects from start to finish. You’ll work with stakeholders to plan requirements, identify risks, manage project schedules, and communicate clearly with cross-functional partners across the company. You're equally comfortable explaining your team's analyses and recommendations to executives as you are discussing the technical tradeoffs in product development with engineers.
Google Data Centers (GDC) make up one of the largest and most powerful computing infrastructures on the planet. The GDC Quality team is responsible for delivering physical plant infrastructure with predictable quality.
As a Supplier Quality Technical Program Manager, you will work directly with supplier partners managing critical aspects of mechanical systems supplier quality. You will collaborate with hardware development and designers, commodity managers, manufacturing engineers, data center engineers, and data center operations to drive supplier failure analysis. You will establish true root causes and drive systemic corrective actions with demonstrated preventative solutions. You will extract and analyze data from supplier facilities and our data centers to verify performance and drive improvements.
Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google.
Responsibilities
- Work directly with supplier partners managing critical aspects of mechanical infrastructure systems supplier quality. Collaborate with design engineers, commodity managers, manufacturing engineers, operation program managers, and product managers to drive high quality products.
- Provide investigative leadership to statistically connect production line metrics, tests, and quality audits to field performance.
- Validate supplier build/test processes and Product Life Cycle (PLC) deliverables for compliance with internal requirements and industry standards like Production Part Approval Process (PPAP).
- Conduct supplier audits, inspect production facilities/lines, and articulate quality improvement activities to reduce variability, improve predictability, streamline lead time, and improve output quality.
- Partner with suppliers to solve product quality and process issues across the full product life-cycle.
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