Location:
Austin, TX (onsite)
Program Coordinator, R&D Operations
The Role:
AMD’s embedded business unit is looking for a strong
program coordinator for the R&D operation’s team. R&D operations include all aspects OpEx
and CapEx planning and attainment, labor headcount planning and tracking,
long-range and annual operational planning, inventory management, hardware
planning and management, build and test reference systems, and
shipping/receiving.
The Person:
This is an individual contributor role that requires
excellent organization skills, ability to pay attention to details, and ability
to lift 50-pounds, as well as having great interpersonal skills. This position
reports into the Director of Operations and is located in Austin TX.
Key Responsibilities:
• Work
with Program Managers and management to meet required timelines and
commitments, including attending meetings, taking meeting minutes and action
items, ensuring teams are following through on action items, providing guidance
from experience, etc.
• Assist
with and/or lead process improvement efforts, including researching and
developing plans to use Artificial Intelligence (AI).
• Consolidate
new product hardware requests, from internal and external sources, and enter
them into our order management system, generating bi-weekly reports to allow
teams to manage their programs.
• Assist
with managing development system inventory, including managing inventory
locations, routing of hardware to/from inventory keeping inventory database
up-to-date, and generating monthly reports.
• Perform
shipping and receiving for R&D team, keeping detailed logs and generating
reports as required.
Preferred Experience:
• Strong
program coordinator skills including familiarity with Microsoft products;
Outlook, SharePoint, Word, and Excel. (plus, if prior experience implementing
AI solutions)
• Ability
to analyze data and generate reports.
• Must
be able to lift 50-pounds.
• Self-starter
that looks to create and enhance processes to improve team efficiency.
• Excellent
communication and interpersonal skills.
• Excellent
skills of managing up with right set of data/reports to executives for
visibility and decision making.
o Ability
to align, resolve conflicts and build consensus among parties working towards
the final goal.
o High
sense of urgency, discipline and drive for results.
o Relentless
focus on operational excellence.
Academic Credentials:
• Associates
degree with 5+ years of overall corporate experience. (plus, if experience in
BU engineering operations role).
