Senior Engineering Program Manager
Thea Energy
3 months ago
Full-time
On-site
Kearny, NJ
1. Fusion
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- Define and drive program planning and execution across hardware design, test, supply chain, and manufacturing teams, with a clear plan of record and critical-path ownership
- Drive the design, build, and test cycles for complex hardware components.
- Partner with technical leads to define product requirements, validation strategies, and decision gates, ensuring design tradeoffs are explicitly documented and understood across teams
- Own engineering BOM strategy and NPI readiness, working closely with engineers and supply chain to balance performance, cost, availability, and manufacturability
- Provide regular, detailed program updates to leadership and stakeholders, highlighting progress, technical challenges, and proposed solutions.
- Proactively identify and manage technical, schedule, budget, and quality risks. develop effective mitigation strategies and contingency plans.
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering or a related technical field.
- 5+ years leading complex, multidisciplinary engineering programs ideally involving large scale hardware development in climate tech, aerospace, nuclear, or related industries.
- Demonstrated ability to work deeply with technical teams (physics, mechanical engineering, magnet engineering, manufacturing engineering) and solve first of a kind problems.
- Strong grasp of DFM principles and the realities of design, build, test cycles.
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to influence across engineering, operations, and leadership teams
- Proven ability to distill complex technical programs into clear risks, decisions, and priorities for leadership audiences
- Comfortable operating in a fast-moving startup environment, with high ownership and ambiguity.
- Nice to have: product and technology roadmap development experience.
- Salary range $130,000-$180,000
- Comprehensive health benefits (e.g. medical/dental/vision)
- Employee equity stock options
- 20 days PTO