Sr./Staff Technical Program Manager - Copper
Mariana Minerals· Engineering
Moab, UTFull-timePosted 1mo ago
About the role
Technical Program Manager leading capital projects from idea to handover, owning scope, schedule, budget, and risk within Mariana’s Capital Project OS, coordinating across engineering, procurement, construction, and finance to drive execution.
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 and nothing falls between disciplines
- 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 escalate with a 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
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or a related technical field
- 4+ years of program or project management experience on capital projects in mining, minerals processing, chemical, energy, or heavy-industrial environments
- Demonstrated ownership of an integrated schedule and budget on a project spanning multiple engineering disciplines and external partners
- Strong technical fluency—able to read P&IDs, general arrangements, and equipment lists
- Excellent written and verbal communication and stakeholder management skills
- Willingness to travel to project sites as programs require
Skills
Required:Program management
Benefits
- Culture built on safety, ownership, automation, and collaboration (as described in the company principles)
- Opportunity to contribute to the future of responsible mineral sourcing and supply
Last updated Sep 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
About Mariana Minerals
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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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