Senior Design Manager

Redwood Materials; Nevada (IA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Redwood Materials in Reno, NV is seeking a Senior Design Manager to lead design and infrastructure programs within the EPC team. You will drive concept to IFC for multi-disciplinary manufacturing facilities, coordinating process engineering, construction, and facilities to align with company priorities.

Ideal candidates bring a strong background in engineering and project management, with at least 5 years managing complex, multi-disciplinary scope in manufacturing or design engineering

Qualifications

• B.S. in Architectural, Civil, Mechanical, Chemical, or Electrical Engineering.
• M.S. degree preferred.
• PE or RA license preferred.
• Excellent communication and documentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Understand stakeholders' requirements and translate into clear project objectives.
• Lead infrastructure and tool install projects from concept to IFC.
• Manage permitting and construction documents including transmittals and RFIs.
• Coordinate input from site teams and manage project funding requests.
• Align schedules with Procurement and Construction partners.
• Build cross-functional relationships for program alignment.
• Define delivery strategies: design-bid-build, integrated development, fast-track.
• Apply lean construction principles and BIM-driven design.
• Support feasibility studies and value engineering.

Skills

Communication

Project management

Cross-functional teamwork

Infrastructure design

Education

B.S. in Architectural, Civil, Mechanical, Chemical, or Electrical Eng.

M.S. degree preferred

PE or RA license preferred

Job description

About Redwood Materials

Redwood is localizing a global battery supply chain that seamlessly integrates recovery, reuse, and recycling — keeping critical minerals in circulation and driving the energy transition. Founded in 2017, we’re delivering low-cost and large-scale energy storage and producing battery materials in the U.S. for the first time, all from batteries we already have.

Senior Design Manager

Designing & building infrastructure, at record speed, is key to enabling us to scale worldwide. We are looking for a highly motivated Design Manager to join our Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EPC) team.

In this role, you will own and drive design and engineering efforts for construction and infrastructure development from concept to production. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in engineering, construction, manufacturing, and/or project management.

This role requires a highly organized mindset, a passion for driving multi-disciplinary projects, and an ability to pull people together to make things happen. You must be detail oriented, question requirements, identify real barriers, and drive cross-functional teams to execute quickly at high quality. You will drive collaboration between Process Engineering, Construction, Manufacturing, Facilities, and Production to ensure alignment with company priorities. You will translate scattered information into concise, complete documentation and communicate it to every team member. This position will be located at our factory in TRIC (Tahoe Reno Industrial Center) Reno, Nevada.

Responsibilities will include:

• Fundamentally understand stakeholders’ requirements and translate them into clear project objectives. Distill, document, and manage scope effectively to support highly dynamic environment.
• Manage and lead Infrastructure and Tool Install projects through conceptualization, feasibility, funding, design (30%/60%/90%/IFC), change management, and engineering services during construction.
• Manage permitting and construction documents including transmittals and RFI’s.
• Co‑manage infeed of customer requests from all site teams.
• Own project funding request process for major infrastructure improvements.
• Coordinate key project schedule requirements with our Procurement and Construction partners for the overall schedule success of the project.
• Identify resource requirements and highlight gaps and constraints across various stages for all projects. Influence various teams outside of direct reporting structure.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with the various cross‑functional teams to ensure overall program alignment.
• Define strategies for project delivery methods including design bid build, integrated project development, and fast track projects.
• Understand lean construction principles and fully integrated design using Building Information Modeling (BIM).
• Implement innovative engineering and design methodologies to support very aggressive programs and construction schedules.
• Support, lead feasibility studies, value engineering efforts, and options analysis.

Desired Qualifications:

• B.S. in Architectural, Civil, Mechanical, Chemical, Electrical Engineering, M.S. preferred but not required.
• PE or RA License preferred.
• Experience managing multi-disciplinary scopes within A/E or Design Engineering firms. At least 5 years’ experience desired.
• Excellent communication and documentation skills with ability to understand complex problems and distill the message into a clear plan to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience designing manufacturing facilities and site infrastructure including tool install (e.g., building, utilities, installation of manufacturing equipment).
• Fully understanding all engineering disciplines and be able to demonstrate skills to manage engineering resources.
• Experience working with codes and jurisdictions and be able to build strong relationships with external partners.
• Advanced project management skills, demonstrated application of project, and program management fundamentals to complex engineering problems.
• Ability to effectively execute projects and tasks in parallel.
• Positive, enthusiastic, fast learner, can‑do mindset and passionate about manufacturing infrastructure.
• Thrives under pressure and in ambiguous environments.

The position is full-time. Compensation will be commensurate with experience.