Program Controls / Project Planner

K1 Industries•Carson City, NV

About The Position

K1 Industries is hiring a Program Controls / Project Planner to maintain the integrated schedule connecting design, procurement, manufacturing, testing, site readiness, and deployment of its modular gas turbine power packages. Reporting to the Head of Programs, this role turns input from teams across K1 into a clear, current view of milestones, dependencies, and delivery risks. The planner is expected to understand how work fits together, challenge unsupported dates, identify next steps, and provide reliable information for decisions and follow-through. The position owns the integrated design-to-deployment schedule across engineering, procurement, manufacturing, testing, construction, commissioning, and delivery. It coordinates workstream plans, defines and tracks dependencies and milestones, maintains schedule and change records, makes downstream impacts visible, and supports teams in keeping the program moving. The role also establishes consistent planning, update, and reporting practices and improves planning tools and workflows as the company grows. The role may be based in Carson City, Nevada, or San Francisco, California, with regular onsite time at K1’s Nevada facilities. It works closely with engineering, manufacturing, and site teams to understand progress, validate dependencies, and keep plans grounded in the work. Compensation includes a competitive salary, meaningful early-stage equity, and a standard benefits package including health, dental, and vision insurance.

Requirements

Experience building and maintaining integrated schedules for hardware development, manufacturing, energy, construction, or similarly complex programs.
Understanding of dependency logic, critical-path analysis, baselines, float, and schedule variance.
Ability to connect engineering work to procurement, fabrication, testing, installation, and commissioning.
Proficiency with scheduling software such as Primavera P6, Microsoft Project, or an equivalent tool, and ability to turn schedule data into clear reports.
Ability to ask specific questions, test assumptions, and distinguish credible completion dates from unsupported estimates.
Experience maintaining change logs and explaining how scope or sequencing changes affect downstream milestones.
Ability to coordinate effectively across technical teams and follow up persistently without relying on direct authority.
Comfort planning with incomplete information and updating assumptions as designs and priorities evolve.

Nice To Haves

Experience with turbine or power generation equipment, first-of-kind hardware, long-lead procurement, and facility or test-site buildouts.
Experience establishing planning discipline in a small, fast-moving team.

Responsibilities

Build and maintain the integrated design-to-deployment schedule across engineering, procurement, manufacturing, testing, construction, commissioning, and delivery.
Connect workstream plans through clear dependencies, milestones, and accountable owners.
Work with team leads to define activities, durations, handoffs, and completion criteria.
Establish a regular schedule update cadence and verify progress against actual deliverables.
Keep near-term work detailed and make longer-term assumptions visible.
Identify critical-path activities and dependencies driving key milestones.
Track schedule float, constraints, and emerging delays, and flag downstream impacts early.
Work with activity owners to develop recovery options for review by the Head of Programs.
Maintain records of proposed and approved scope, sequencing, and milestone-date changes, including reasons, owners, affected workstreams, schedule impacts, and decision status.
Update schedules to reflect approved changes while preserving the baseline and decision history.
Surface gaps between team plans, including design release dates, supplier deliveries, manufacturing readiness, test availability, and site completion.
Track handoff requirements and unresolved dependencies so teams can act before work is blocked.
Prepare practical near-term plans showing upcoming work, prerequisites, and decisions needed.
Maintain action and constraint logs with clear owners and due dates, and follow up on overdue items.
Report milestone status, baseline variance, critical-path changes, and decisions required; distinguish confirmed progress from estimates and communicate uncertainty clearly.
Maintain consistent schedule structure, naming, and reporting practices.
Improve planning tools and workflows as K1 grows, keeping information useful and straightforward for teams.