Sr./Staff Technical Program Manager - Lithium

Mariana Minerals•San Francisco, CA

7d•$150,000 - $200,000

About The Position

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.

Requirements

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

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