Technical Program Manager – Advanced Energy Systems

Sapphire Technologies, Inc.•Cypress, CA

4d•Hybrid

About The Position

Sapphire Technologies is seeking a Technical Program Manager to lead complex product-development and customer-application programs for natural-gas and data-center infrastructure. The programs integrate high-speed rotating machinery, active magnetic bearings, power electronics, controls, manufacturing, and field deployment. Several are progressing from development into production and will require significant manufacturing scale-up. The Technical Program Manager will own the integrated program schedule, identify and protect the critical path, prioritize cross-functional work, and coordinate resource needs with functional leaders. This role will also manage customer technical questions and ensure that analyses, specifications, drawings, test reports, and other deliverables are completed accurately and on time. This position leads through influence rather than direct authority and is accountable for program schedule, scope, cost, risk, and stakeholder alignment.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
Five or more years of experience leading or coordinating complex engineering and product-development programs.
Demonstrated ability to build integrated schedules, manage critical paths, prioritize work, and coordinate limited technical resources.
Experience managing customer technical requirements, questions, deliverables, and expectations.
Working knowledge of electromechanical product development, manufacturing, procurement, validation, certification, and production launch.
Ability to interpret technical requirements, drawings, analyses, test data, budgets, schedules, and risk assessments.
Strong written, verbal, presentation, and stakeholder-management skills.
Ability to influence technical teams and drive accountability without direct supervisory authority.

Nice To Haves

High-speed rotating machinery, active magnetic bearings, power electronics, or motor-drive systems
Natural-gas, energy, HVAC, refrigeration, or data-center infrastructure
New-product introduction and manufacturing scale-up
Product certification, supplier management, or contract manufacturing
Applications engineering, commissioning, or technical customer support
Root-cause analysis or structured problem-solving

Responsibilities

Build and maintain integrated program schedules across engineering, procurement, manufacturing, validation, certification, commissioning, and customer activities.
Identify and manage the critical path, schedule dependencies, resource constraints, decision deadlines, and recovery actions.
Prioritize cross-functional work based on technical risk, customer commitments, and business impact.
Forecast resource needs and work with functional leaders to resolve capacity gaps and competing priorities.
Define and manage program scope, deliverables, budgets, risks, acceptance criteria, and change control.
Lead cross-functional reviews and maintain accountability for decisions and commitments.
Manage customer technical questions from receipt through assignment, review, approval, and final response.
Coordinate customer deliverables including specifications, drawings, analyses, test reports, schedules, and corrective-action updates.
Provide concise reporting to leadership and customers on progress, risks, decisions, and recovery plans.
Coordinate suppliers, contractors, technical partners, and field activities as required.