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Infrastructure Supply Chain Engineering NPI PM
Epsilon Solutions LTD
🇨🇦 Canada
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Location: Remote- Canada- PST Time zone
Full time
Infrastructure Supply Chain Engineering — New Product Introduction
Team: Infrastructure Supply Chain Engineering — New Product Introduction
Location: Canada – Vancouver time zone preferred
Type: Full-time
About the Role
- AI infrastructure is scaling faster than any hardware program in our history, and rack-level power and thermal hardware is the constraint that determines how quickly compute gets deployed.
- Own the supply-side readiness of rack power and thermal hardware across every AI platform.
- Serve as the single point of consolidation for rack power and thermal demand.
- Take fragmented signals from platform teams, program managers, and manufacturing partners and turn them into one aligned, trusted forecast.
- Drive the purchasing workflow to ensure NPI material arrives on time.
- Qualify second-source suppliers to reduce single-vendor dependency and improve supply resilience.
- Work cross-functionally with:
- Engineering
- Technical Program Management
- Sourcing
- Quality
- External Manufacturing Partners
- Component Suppliers
- Serve as the key point of contact when material readiness is at risk.
Cross-Platform Demand Consolidation
- Own end-to-end collection and alignment of new-product demand signals for rack power and thermal commodities across all AI hardware platforms.
- Serve as the primary interface between:
- Platform Program Managers
- Technical Program Managers
- Engineering
- Manufacturing Partners
- Component Suppliers
- Build and maintain a single source of truth for commodity demand.
- Consolidate legacy and partner-specific trackers into one standardized format rather than creating parallel files.
- Run demand review cadences.
- Surface gaps, conflicts, and risks early enough to enable corrective action.
- Drive the Purchase Requisition (PR) and Purchase Order (PO) lifecycle for NPI material, from request through delivery confirmation.
- Ensure every request is complete and accurate, including:
- Part numbers
- Quantities
- Ship-to details
- Entity details
- Pricing references
- Contract terms
- Apply the appropriate receipt and matching model for each destination:
- Lab
- Data Center
- Warehouse
- Partner Site
- Flag non-compliant requests before they cause delays.
- Maintain a consolidated purchase order tracker.
- Keep stakeholders informed about material status and arrival dates.
- Own and drive qualification of alternate-source components across:
- Power Supply Units
- Rack Frames
- Power Whips
- Horizontal Busbars
- Vertical Busbars
- Build supply resilience and support cost competitiveness.
- Partner with engineering and quality teams to validate that alternate components meet specifications.
- Track qualification milestones and timelines.
- Manage engineering sample procurement and logistics.
- Report qualification status to program stakeholders.
- Monitor qualification spend against budget.
- Maintain qualification documentation according to program standards.
- Manage qualification activities with contract manufacturers.
- Confirm manufacturing and material readiness against program requirements.
- Oversee clear-to-build and component readiness across suppliers and manufacturing partners.
- Manage risk-buy strategies and supply escalations.
- Coordinate build readiness reviews.
- Track partner capacity and capability.
- Drive resolution and escalation of supply chain issues with manufacturing partners.
Minimum Qualifications
- Experience in NPI program management, high-tech supply chain program management, materials management, or a closely related hardware operations role.
- Demonstrated ownership of demand planning or forecast consolidation across multiple concurrent programs.
- Hands-on experience with procurement workflows, including:
- Purchase Requisitions (PRs)
- Purchase Orders (POs)
- Receipt matching
- Supplier logistics
- Experience working directly with contract manufacturers and component suppliers, including international partners.
- Strong working knowledge of hardware NPI phase gates, including:
- EVT
- DVT
- PVT
- MP
- Understanding of what each NPI phase requires from a supply and material readiness perspective.
- Proven ability to drive alignment across engineering, program management, sourcing, and quality without direct authority.
- Advanced spreadsheet and data-tracking skills, with the ability to build reporting that stakeholders depend on.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including communication with executive stakeholders and external partners.
- Experience with data center, server, or rack-level hardware, particularly power distribution or thermal systems.
- Background in second-source or alternate-source component qualification.
- Familiarity with Bill of Materials (BOM) structures and manufacturing assembly levels.
- Experience with product lifecycle management and source-to-pay systems.
- Working knowledge of regional compliance and trade constraints affecting hardware sourcing.
- Comfortable working across time zones with partners in Asia.
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Supply Chain, Operations, or equivalent practical experience.
Infrastructure Supply Chain Engineering NPI PM · Epsilon Solutions LTD