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Sr./Staff Technical Program Manager - Lithium

Mariana Minerals· Engineering
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San Francisco HQ$150k - $200kFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Technical Program Manager leading capital projects end-to-end within Mariana Minerals, owning scope, schedule, budget, risk, and execution inside the Capital Project OS from idea to handover to operations.

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 managementSchedulingBudgeting & cost forecastingP&IDs literacy
Last updated Sep 9, 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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