Technical Program Manager

Ecolab Inc. • Calgary, AB

4d • Onsite

About The Position

The Technical Program Manager (TPM) leads the Program Core Team and serves as its battle captain, orchestrating cross-functional execution, technical integration, and accountability. Through deep technical understanding and risk-based decision-making, the TPM drives alignment, challenges assumptions, and ensures customer commitments are translated into successful outcomes.

CoolIT Systems is the leading Direct Liquid Cooling technology provider for data centers, supercomputers, and desktop computers. We design and manufacture solutions used by the largest tech companies globally. Recognized as one of “The Americas’ Fastest Growing Companies 2023” by Financial Times and honored with the Deloitte Fast 50 Clean Technology award in 2022, as well as the Deloitte Fast 500 distinction in both 2021 and 2022, CoolIT's rapid growth is capturing global attention. As demand for generative AI, high performance computing and cloud solutions rapidly expands, there has never been a more exciting time to join our team.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or related discipline, with strong grounding in mechanical, thermal, fluid, or electromechanical product development.
• 5+ years in technical program management, product development, systems engineering, or NPI execution for complex engineered products.
• Experience supporting DFMEA, technical risk assessments, root-cause analysis, issue resolution, and mitigation planning.
• Proven ability to manage customer relationships, understand customer needs, and translate requirements into PRDs, technical scope, and executable plans.
• Strong engineering collaboration skills, with the ability to drive solution trade-offs across design, validation, manufacturability, reliability, cost, and schedule.
• Excellent communication and influence skills with customers, engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, quality, suppliers, and leadership.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Program Core Team, driving technical execution, cross-functional integration, customer alignment, accountability, and NPI launch readiness.
• Build strong customer relationships by understanding business objectives, technical needs, decision drivers, and success criteria; support the KAM in developing new business opportunities and preparing customer proposals.
• Collect, clarify, and translate customer requirements into product requirements, technical scope, PRDs, program plans, and measurable deliverables.
• Drive solution development with engineering teams by challenging assumptions, facilitating design trade-offs, resolving technical issues, and aligning decisions to customer commitments and program risks.
• Support DFMEA activities and broader technical risk assessments across design, validation, manufacturability, reliability, supply chain, cost, schedule, and launch readiness.
• Develop and drive mitigation plans, escalation paths, recovery actions, and decision frameworks to protect customer commitments and launch outcomes.
• Coordinate engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, quality, sales, business stakeholders, and customers to maintain technical alignment, decision velocity, and execution discipline.
• Monitor program health through integrated schedules, dependencies, action registers, risk logs, budgets, and customer-facing status reporting in partnership with Project Managers.
• Travel globally up to 20% to support customer relationship development, requirements reviews, technical reviews, supplier engagement, production readiness, and launch activities.

Benefits

• Vacation and flex days
• Paid company-wide shutdown during the holiday season
• Comprehensive benefits including Dental, Drugs, Optical, Paramedical and Health Spending
• Retention rewards like “The Big Coffee Break” that reward tenure with additional vacation time and a monetary bonus
• Company-funded RRSP contributions

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior