Senior PM: Lead New Facility Bring-Up & Manufacturing

Apply; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity grants

Comprehensive benefits

Transit-accessible office

Team culture programs

Flexible hours & PTO

Job summary

SPAN, headquartered in San Francisco, seeks a Senior Program Manager to lead the end-to-end bring-up of a new manufacturing facility. You will coordinate site selection, incentives, construction, and readiness, guiding cross-functional teams toward a shared timeline with minimal authority over others.

You’ll travel to sites during active build-out, shaping manufacturing readiness, risk management, and executive reporting.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of program or project management experience, with direct experience standing up new manufacturing facilities, lines, or large capital projects.
• Demonstrated ability to manage complex, multi-workstream programs involving internal teams and external partners simultaneously.
• Working knowledge of manufacturing readiness concepts: equipment qualification, process validation, EHS/safety compliance, and quality systems.
• Strong financial acumen, with experience building and tracking capital budgets, forecasts, and incentive-related financial commitments.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence and align engineering, finance, legal, HR, and operations leaders without direct authority over them.
• Proven track record of building structure and clarity in ambiguous, fast-moving environments.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including experience presenting to senior leadership.

Responsibilities

• Own the master program plan for new facility bring‑up, including milestones, dependencies, critical path, and risk register, from site selection through ramp to full production.
• Coordinate site selection activities, working with real estate, legal, and finance teams to evaluate candidate locations against cost, labor, logistics, and regulatory criteria.
• Manage relationships and negotiations related to local and state incentives, partnering with legal and finance to track commitments and compliance obligations.
• Drive facility bring‑up activities including permitting, construction oversight coordination, utility and infrastructure readiness, and equipment install scheduling.
• Lead manufacturing readiness planning: equipment qualification, process validation, staffing and training plans, safety certification, and quality system readiness.
• Run regular cross‑functional program reviews, surfacing risks, resolving blockers, and escalating decisions to leadership with clear options and recommendations.
• Build and maintain program dashboards and status reporting for executive stakeholders.
• Manage relationships with external partners including general contractors, equipment vendors, local government agencies, and economic development organizations.
• Develop contingency plans for schedule, budget, or supply chain risks, and adjust the program plan as conditions change.
• Document lessons learned and build repeatable playbooks to streamline future facility launches.

Skills

Program management

Cross-functional leadership

Stakeholder management

Financial acumen

Travel readiness

Risk management

Tools

MS Project

Smartsheet

Monday.com

Job description

SPAN, headquartered in San Francisco, seeks a Senior Program Manager to lead the end-to-end bring-up of a new manufacturing facility. You will coordinate site selection, incentives, construction, and readiness, guiding cross-functional teams toward a shared timeline with minimal authority over others.

You’ll travel to sites during active build-out, shaping manufacturing readiness, risk management, and executive reporting.