Remote Program Manager, Critical Materials & Projects

Auris Noble; Warren (OH); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) matching

Bonus based on performance

Dental insurance

Health insurance

Paid time off

Vision insurance

Job summary

Auris Noble LLC is seeking a Program Manager for Critical Materials Recovery, Refining and Manufacturing. This full-time on-site role coordinates technical and business teams, maintains performance baselines, and ensures deliverables on federally funded projects.

The position supports expansion, scale-up, and commissioning of processes to recover and refine critical materials, with quarterly bonuses and a comprehensive benefits package.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, science, business, project management, or related discipline.
• 5+ years of program, project, operations, engineering, or manufacturing leadership experience.
• Demonstrated success managing complex cross-functional projects involving capital equipment, construction, facilities management, process development, or production.
• Strong schedule, risk, budget, meeting, documentation, and executive-communication skills.
• Ability to understand technical work sufficiently to challenge assumptions, identify dependencies, and communicate progress accurately.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain the integrated program plan, work breakdown structure, schedule, milestone calendar, responsibility matrix, budget alignment, risk register, and reporting cadence.
• Coordinate plant, engineering, chemistry, construction, maintenance, operations, quality, ESH, finance, procurement, IT, and contracts activities across interdependent workstreams via effective and proactive collaboration with the associated leads in each area.
• Facilitate kickoff, weekly team, monthly leadership, risk, change-control, and milestone-readiness reviews and drive closure of decisions and actions.
• Track requirements, approvals, and documentation for capital purchases, construction, commissioning, qualification, pilot production, product sampling, production targets, and final closeout.
• Identify schedule, cost, resource, technical, supply-chain, and compliance risks to develop and manage the critical path; assign owners and monitor mitigation plans.
• Coordinate draft preparation and internal review of presentations, project plans, schedules, quarterly reports, annual reports, invoices, production and quality summaries, and final technical reports.
• Maintain objective evidence supporting deliverables, milestone completion, costs, approvals, and technical acceptance criteria.
• Implement disciplined change control for scope, schedule, budget, requirements, assumptions, and technical baselines.
• Communicate status, forecast, decisions, and emerging issues clearly to executives, project teams, customers, and partners.
• Support workforce planning, subcontractor coordination, customer visits, audits, and project closeout.

Skills

Leadership experience

Project management

Cross-functional coordination

Communication skills

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering, science, business, or related discipline

PMI/Project Management Professional (preferred)

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Auris Noble LLC is seeking a Program Manager for Critical Materials Recovery, Refining and Manufacturing. This full-time on-site role coordinates technical and business teams, maintains performance baselines, and ensures deliverables on federally funded projects.

The position supports expansion, scale-up, and commissioning of processes to recover and refine critical materials, with quarterly bonuses and a comprehensive benefits package.