Sr./Staff Technical Program Manager - Lithium

marianaminerals· Engineering
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📍 San Francisco HQFullTime💰 USD 150K–200K

About this role

About Mariana Minerals

Mariana Minerals is a software-first, vertically integrated minerals company on a mission to supply the critical minerals powering modern energy, AI, and defense technologies. We’re reimagining the minerals supply chain by combining deep industry expertise with advanced software, automation, and data-driven decision-making.

The Role

We are hiring Technical Program Managers to own the planning, coordination, and execution of capital projects in Mariana’s portfolio, from idea, to development, through construction and handover to operations.

In this role, you are the single owner of a program. Including scope definition, schedule, budget, and risk register. You coordinate between process development, process engineering, detailed engineering, procurement, construction, business development, and finance. You will build and maintain the execution plan, develop the plan to keep the program the moving and communicate progress, surface risks and decisions before they turn into schedule impacts, and drive them to closure. You will run all of this inside Mariana’s Capital Project OS, the software tools that automate and standardize how we plan, track, and execute programs. You will ensure standardization in execution approaches in the program and provide feedback on Capital Project OS to the software and product management teams to continuously improve the tool.

 

What You’ll Do

  • 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

 

Desired 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

Our culture is built on four principles:

Everyone Gets Home Safe. We never put speed or cost ahead of people.

Extreme Ownership. We take full responsibility for outcomes, relentlessly driving toward solutions.

Engineer Out Requirements, then Automate. We simplify, optimize, and then automate for scale.

Share Your Legos. We collaborate openly, share knowledge, and empower each other to build bigger, better solutions.

Join us as we build the future of responsible mineral sourcing and supply!

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the salary for the Sr./Staff Technical Program Manager - Lithium role at marianaminerals?
The listed salary for this Sr./Staff Technical Program Manager - Lithium position at marianaminerals is USD 150K–200K. This is an FullTime role.
Where is the Sr./Staff Technical Program Manager - Lithium position at marianaminerals located?
This Sr./Staff Technical Program Manager - Lithium role at marianaminerals is based in San Francisco HQ. The position is listed as on-site or hybrid. Check the full job description or apply directly to confirm the work arrangement.
Is the Sr./Staff Technical Program Manager - Lithium role at marianaminerals full-time or part-time?
This is listed as a FullTime position. It is posted as a Sr./Staff Technical Program Manager - Lithium role in the Engineering department at marianaminerals.
Which team or department does the Sr./Staff Technical Program Manager - Lithium at marianaminerals belong to?
This Sr./Staff Technical Program Manager - Lithium position is part of the Engineering department at marianaminerals. See the full job description for more information about the team structure and responsibilities.
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When was the Sr./Staff Technical Program Manager - Lithium job at marianaminerals posted?
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Sr./Staff Technical Program Manager - Lithium
marianaminerals · 💰 USD 150K–200K
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