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Head of Engineering Programs

Mariana Minerals· Engineering
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San Francisco HQ, Houston, TX$180k - $240kFull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Leading the planning, coordination, and execution of Mariana’s capital project programs from development through construction, including ownership of program schedules, budgets, interfaces across functions, and adoption of the capital-project operating system software tools.

Responsibilities

  • Own end-to-end execution of Mariana’s capital project engineering, driving overall schedule, budget, and delivery from development through construction and handover to operations
  • Lead and grow a team of Technical Program Managers, setting priorities, standards, and ways of working across active programs
  • Manage coordination and interfaces across process development, process engineering, detailed engineering, construction, business development, finance, and other functions to keep programs aligned and decisions moving quickly
  • Own integrated program schedules and budgets, tracking critical path, interdependencies, and resource needs, and proactively surfacing and mitigating risks
  • Drive cross-functional execution planning, reviews, and reporting to give leadership clear visibility into program status, risks, and trade-offs
  • Support the development of Mariana’s capital-project operating-system software tools, partnering with software and engineering teams to define requirements and workflows
  • Drive deployment and adoption of these tools across all programs, ensuring teams use them consistently to plan, track, and execute work
  • Establish and standardize Mariana’s project development and execution strategies
  • Partner with finance and business development on capital allocation, project economics, and investment decisions, ensuring program plans align with company strategy
  • Continuously improve program-management processes, templates, and metrics to scale project delivery as the portfolio grow

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or a related technical field
  • 10+ years of experience leading program or project management for large, complex capital projects in mining, minerals processing, chemical, energy, or heavy-industrial environments
  • Experience defining, deploying, and driving adoption of project management or capital-project software tools and digital workflows
  • Excellent cross-functional communication and stakeholder management skills, with comfort operating in a fast-moving, first principles-driven environment
  • Experience supporting construction, commissioning, and field execution preferred

Skills

Required:Program managementCross-functional leadership

Benefits

  • Not specified in the description
Last updated Sep 9, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Mariana Minerals

We to the Future of Minerals, verify the mineral supply chain.

Mariana Minerals is a software-first, vertically integrated minerals company focused on supplying the minerals critical to modern energy, AI, and defense technologies.

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