Senior, Engineering Delivery Manager (EDM)

Physics World; Lake Forest (CA); Hybrid; USD 165,000 - 195,000; Full time

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Job summary

TAE Power Solutions seeks a Senior EDM to define and manage the engineering execution architecture for BESS hardware and software. You will break down high-level objectives into clear tasks with owners, dependencies, and readiness criteria, coordinating with PMO and cross-functional teams to ensure milestone alignment.

You will lead cadence reviews, drive cross-functional alignment, and implement operational processes to track outcomes and optimize performance using Six Sigma CTQ methods.

Qualifications

• Extensive interdisciplinary background in BESS development, validation, certification, and manufacturing.
• 7 years of direct experience with stationary BESS, power electronics, controls, and safety compliance programs.
• Extensive experience leading execution planning for complex hardware and software products.
• Demonstrated ability to build detailed WBS and dependency maps that stand up to robust audit.

Responsibilities

• Define engineering work breakdown structure across systems, electrical, mechanical, software, and manufacturing readiness.
• Establish phase gate readiness criteria for milestones (requirements/build/certification releases).
• Translate engineering changes into task-level impacts for PMO baselines.
• Lead weekly progress reviews, dependency reviews, and risk/issue tracking.
• Build a scalable JIRA structure with EPICs, stories, and ownership.
• Provide concise technical executive readouts on progress and risks.

Skills

Executive communication

Cross-functional leadership

Project planning

Dependency mapping

Stakeholder management

Systems engineering awareness

Tools

MS Project

JIRA

Job description

Please Note - Preferred location: Irvine, California. Remote candidates may be considered if they are out of the area

About Us

TAE Power Solutions (TPS) is the electrification spin-off from TAE Technologies, a leader in nuclear fusion technology. The company is leveraging unique power management technology originally developed for nuclear fusion and applying it in adjacent industries including Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) and DC Fast Charging for electric vehicles.

About the Role

The main objective of this role is to identify technical gaps in engineering tasks to ensure scalable and predictable engineering execution. The Senior EDM owns the internal engineering execution architecture. This role turns high-level engineering objectives into a complete task breakdown with clear owners, dependencies, deliverables, and readiness criteria, ensuring there are no gaps or overlaps across disciplines. The role partners closely with PMO, which owns the integrated master schedule and external communications with customers and vendors, to ensure seamless execution of internal and external milestones.

Engineering Execution Architecture

• Build and maintain the engineering work breakdown structure across systems, electrical, mechanical, controls, software, compliance, test, manufacturing readiness, and field readiness.
• Define clear scope boundaries, handoffs, and ownership to prevent gaps and duplicated work across teams.
• Create phase gate readiness criteria for key milestones such as requirements freeze, design freeze, build readiness FAT readiness, certification readiness, and release readiness.
• Translate engineering changes into task level impacts and provide schedule and resourcing inputs to PMO for baseline updates.

Operating Cadence and Leadership Partnership

• Work directly with the Director of Engineering on task planning and scope checks, and highlight critical path risks early.
• Run a recurring engineering execution cadence including weekly progress reviews, dependency reviews, and risk issue decision tracking.
• Drive cross functional alignment on deliverables, sequencing, and acceptance criteria.

Operational Processes and Continuous Improvement

• Design and implement operational processes to track and quantify engineering outcomes and execution efficiency.
• Establish a consistent operating system for engineering execution including WBS standards, JIRA structure, engineering RAID and decision logs, and milestone readiness reviews.
• Use Six Sigma CTQ to support structured trade-off decisions (scope, schedule, cost, risk) and to reduce rework and variability in engineering outputs.
• Define metrics, track trends, and lead continuous operational optimization with the Director of Engineering.

Tools and Reporting

• Provide technical deliverable inputs and task breakdown at the level of detail required to manage dependencies and provide clean inputs to the PMO master schedule.
• Build and maintain a JIRA structure that reflects the WBS and supports traceable execution, including EPICs, Stories, definitions of completed, and clear ownership.
• Create concise technical executive readouts for progress, risks, decisions needed, and forecast to key milestones (with PMO)

Interfaces and Stakeholders

• Director of Engineering
• PMO team for integrated schedule governance and external milestone coordination
• Engineering discipline leaders across hardware and software
• Compliance and certifications
• Quality and reliability
• Supply chain and manufacturing engineering
• Contract manufacturers and key vendors as needed for internal readiness planning

Manufacturing and Production Engineering

• Establish and enforce configuration control and ECN discipline.
• Provide technical oversight of contract manufacturers to ensure build quality and process adherence.
• Own unit level build, test, and quality readiness prior to release to execution teams.

Success Measures

• No gaps or overlaps in scope across engineering workstreams and phase gates.
• Improved predictability of execution, measured by engineering KPI and reduced critical path instability.
• Higher closure rate and faster time to closure for critical risks and issues.
• Improved planning quality, measured by estimate accuracy and reduced rework driven by missing tasks or unclear ownership.
• Clean handoff of task level plans and change impacts to PMO with minimal rework.
• Improved quality and execution consistency, measured through CTQ adoption, reduced variability, and reduced rework.

Required

• Extensive interdisciplinary background in BESS development, validation, certification, and manufacturing.
• 7 years of direct experience with stationary BESS, power electronics, controls, and safety compliance programs.
• Extensive experience leading execution planning for complex hardware and software products.
• Demonstrated ability to build detailed work breakdown structures and dependency maps that stand up to robust audit and reduced execution surprises.
• Advanced proficiency in MS Project and JIRA, including building structures that scale across teams and releases.
• Extensive experience applying Six Sigma CTQ methods to drive engineering decisions, operational rigor, and continuous improvement.
• Demonstrated ability to define CTQ, build measurable acceptance criteria, and use data to drive closure on cross-functional issues.
• Strong executive communication skills, including clear status, risk framing, and decision requests.
• Ability to influence without authority and drive closure across multiple functions.

Preferred

• Experience with large-scale BESS system integration or EPC delivery for turnkey projects, including system engineering, multiple vendor scope coordination, and commissioning handoffs.

The compensation range for this role is between $165,000 - $195,000 + Benefits

About Us

Imagination, skill, and will

At TAE Power Solutions, we design power systems that use less but do more. Systems that charge faster, run stronger, go farther, and last longer. We inspire better ways to move, work, play, and live. The future is electric, because it's powered by TAE.

Confident, collaborative, and creative

We are unwavering in our expertise and knowledge, separating fact from fiction and proof from hypothesis.

You will be a successful member of TAE Power Solutions if you have these traits:

• You are confident in your skills, based on your credentials, technical accomplishments, and positive impact on your teams/organizations.
• You are collaborative and work well within and with teams to approach challenges with respect, transparency, optimism, and confidence to succeed together.
• You are creative, with determination to learn continuously, break new ground, and push the cutting edge.

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TAE Power Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, or disability status.

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