Strategic Capital Projects Leader

Stealth-mode Battery Startup; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Stealth-mode Battery Startup in San Jose, CA, seeks a Capital Projects Program Manager to oversee facility, infrastructure, and manufacturing-equipment investments across laboratories, pilot lines, and production facilities. You will connect strategy to execution by prioritizing work, coordinating diverse teams, and managing scope, budget, schedule, dependencies, and risk.

Join a fast-moving startup environment and help build the governance framework, business cases, and tools that will drive

Qualifications

• 8+ years managing complex technical programs or industrial capital projects.
• Experience coordinating multiple projects with shared resources and dependencies.
• Strong budgeting, forecasting, scheduling, risk management, and executive reporting.
• Experience supporting early stage projects through design, procurement, installation or construction, commissioning, and startup.
• Ability to operate effectively in ambiguity and adapt as priorities evolve.
• Strong communication and influence across technical teams, executives, vendors, and contractors.
• Willingness to work on-site and travel as needed.

Responsibilities

• Build and manage an integrated roadmap for capital projects.
• Align investments with technical milestones, operating plans, funding constraints, and commercialization goals.
• Coordinate engineering, operations, R&D, EHS, quality, finance, supply chain, and external partners.
• Establish practical program governance, reporting, stage gates, and change-control processes.
• Manage program budgets, forecasts, schedules, dependencies, resource conflicts, and risks.
• Develop business cases and decision materials for major investments.
• Support projects from feasibility and design through procurement, construction, commissioning, and operational handover.
• Provide leadership with clear, timely visibility into progress, tradeoffs, risks, and required decisions.
• Build repeatable capital-program tools and processes that support future growth.

Skills

8+ years managing complex technical /"

Budgeting & forecasting

Scheduling & risk management

Executive reporting

Cross-functional leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering, construction management, business, or related field

PMP, PgMP, PE, CCM or similar credential

Job description

Stealth-mode Battery Startup in San Jose, CA, seeks a Capital Projects Program Manager to oversee facility, infrastructure, and manufacturing-equipment investments across laboratories, pilot lines, and production facilities. You will connect strategy to execution by prioritizing work, coordinating diverse teams, and managing scope, budget, schedule, dependencies, and risk.

Join a fast-moving startup environment and help build the governance framework, business cases, and tools that will drive