Senior Technical Program Manager – Lithium Capital Projects

marianaminerals; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Mariana Minerals is seeking a Technical Program Manager to own planning, coordination, and execution of capital projects across the portfolio. You will drive scope, schedule, budget, and risk, coordinating across process development, engineering, procurement, construction, and finance inside the Capital Project OS.

You will build execution plans, surface risks early, run cadence and gates, and deliver dashboards for leadership while contributing to standards as the portfolio grows.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or a related technical field is required.
• 4+ years of program or project management experience on capital projects in mining, minerals processing, chemical, energy, or heavy-industrial environments.
• Proven ownership of an integrated schedule and budget across multiple engineering disciplines and external partners.
• Strong ability to read P&IDs, general arrangements, and equipment lists.
• Excellent written and verbal communication and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end delivery of an assigned capital program—scope, schedule, budget, and risk—from development through construction and handover to operations.
• Build and maintain the integrated program schedule, tracking critical path, interdependencies, long-lead items, and resource needs.
• Own the program budget and cost forecast, partnering with project controls and finance on estimates, commitments, variances, and change control.
• Manage interfaces across process development, process engineering, detailed engineering, procurement, construction, business development, and finance so decisions move quickly.
• Run the program cadence and checkpoints. Execution planning, design reviews, status meetings, and readiness gates.
• Surface risks and open decisions early, quantify their schedule and cost impact, drive them to closure, and elevate with recommendations.
• Produce program reporting and dashboards that give leadership a view of status, critical path, risks, and trade-offs.
• Manage engineering partners, vendors, and contractors against scope, deliverable schedules, and quality expectations.
• Run your program inside Mariana’s Capital Project OS, drive consistent adoption across your workstreams, and feed requirements, gaps, and improvement ideas back to the software team.
• Support construction, commissioning, and startup in the field, and contribute to Mariana’s program-management standards, templates, and metrics as the portfolio grows.

Skills

End-to-end program management

Cross-functional coordination

Budget and schedule management

Risk management

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or a related technical field

Job description

Mariana Minerals is seeking a Technical Program Manager to own planning, coordination, and execution of capital projects across the portfolio. You will drive scope, schedule, budget, and risk, coordinating across process development, engineering, procurement, construction, and finance inside the Capital Project OS.

You will build execution plans, surface risks early, run cadence and gates, and deliver dashboards for leadership while contributing to standards as the portfolio grows.