Job Description
As a Hardware Engineering Program Coordinator, you will work closely with engineering teams and program management to coordinate the release of design documentation and assets necessary for development builds by our contract manufacturers. You are a customer-focused organizer who can manage rapid changes, prioritize, and track the details. You will work with engineers in all disciplines, Program Managers in engineering and operations, Product Lifecycle Analysts, and domestic and overseas suppliers and partners.
Role Location
Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, this mainly remote role is open to people who can work onsite at our San Francisco and Oakland offices when onsite work is required. Additional staffing is in place to cover most onsite work for you during the pandemic.
You will be part of an org and team that works across multiple time zones, Pacific Time and China Time. This role is open to all people who can be effective partners with this team, including sharing typical working hours.
You will
Work closely with the cross-functional teams to ensure product designs are accurately defined and documented by the Bill of Materials (BOMs). Write Engineering Change Requests(ECRs), Deviations, and Change Orders (ECOs). Create build configuration spreadsheets
Guide internal and Joint Development teams to provide design documentation in time to support approval deadlines. Coordinate readiness checklist (OK2) reviews and approval activities for electrical and mechanical design releases
Manage local suppliers, materials, and purchase orders for quick-turn board builds
Ship, receive, track, and distribute prototype units
Identify risks and develop mitigation strategies. Communicate status and key updates to program team, program manager, and functional leads
Develop, document, improve, and present processes that allow our team to do our best work
Travel to our office 15% of the time for important builds or other essential requirements.
Qualifications
You have
Understanding of configuration management principles, experience with ECO and BOM creation.
Knowledge of electrical and mechanical components and their assemblies, preferably for consumer electronics
Comfortable with complex spreadsheets including creating and using formulas and functions
Experience with device tracking systems
The ability to work across time zones and travel internationally
3+ years of industry experience in a similar role
Additional Information
We’re working to build a more inclusive economy where our customers have equal access to opportunity, and we strive to live by these same values in building our workplace. Block is a proud equal opportunity employer. We work hard to evaluate all employees and job applicants consistently, without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, pregnancy, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other legally protected class.
We believe in being fair, and are committed to an inclusive interview experience, including providing reasonable accommodations to disabled applicants throughout the recruitment process. We encourage applicants to share any needed accommodations with their recruiter, who will treat these requests as confidentially as possible. _WANT TO LEARN MORE ABOUT WHAT WE’RE DOING TO BUILD A WORKPLACE THAT IS FAIR AND SQUARE? CHECK OUT OUR I+D PAGE. _
Additionally, we consider qualified applicants with criminal histories for employment on our team, assessing candidates in a manner consistent with the requirements of the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.
PERKS
We want you to be well and thrive. Our global benefits package includes:
Block, Inc. (NYSE: SQ) is a global technology company with a focus on financial services. Made up of Square, Cash App, Spiral, TIDAL, and TBD, we build tools to help more people access the economy. Square helps sellers run and grow their businesses with its integrated ecosystem of commerce solutions, business software, and banking services. With Cash App, anyone can easily send, spend, or invest their money in stocks or Bitcoin. Spiral (formerly Square Crypto) builds and funds free, open-source Bitcoin projects. Artists use TIDAL to help them succeed as entrepreneurs and connect more deeply with fans. TBD is building an open developer platform to make it easier to access Bitcoin and other blockchain technologies without having to go through an institution.