Sr./Staff Technical Program Manager - Copper

Mariana Minerals
United States
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: Program & Project Management (PMO)Experience: 4+ yearsEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Extreme Ownership","Communication","Stakeholder management","Collaboration"]

Own end-to-end delivery of a capital program for Mariana’s copper portfolio, guiding scope, schedule, budget, and risk from development through construction, handover, and operations. Build integrated plans with critical path visibility, manage cross-discipline interfaces, run program cadence and readiness gates, and quantify risk impacts. Manage partners and vendors, deliver leadership reporting via dashboards, and operate within Mariana’s Capital Project OS to standardize execution and improve the platform.

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Mariana Minerals
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Sr./Staff Technical Program Manager - Copper

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Job Summary

Own end-to-end delivery of a capital program for Mariana’s copper portfolio, guiding scope, schedule, budget, and risk from development through construction, handover, and operations. Build integrated plans with critical path visibility, manage cross-discipline interfaces, run program cadence and readiness gates, and quantify risk impacts. Manage partners and vendors, deliver leadership reporting via dashboards, and operate within Mariana’s Capital Project OS to standardize execution and improve the platform.
Location: United States
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Program & Project Management (PMO)
Seniority: Mid level

Key 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 to keep decisions moving quickly.
  • •Run the program cadence and checkpoints (execution planning, design reviews, status meetings, readiness gates) and produce leadership reporting on status, critical path, risks, and trade-offs.

Key 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.
  • •Proven ownership of an integrated project schedule and budget across multiple engineering disciplines and external partners.
  • •Technical fluency to read P&IDs, general arrangements, and equipment lists.
  • •Strong written and verbal communication with effective stakeholder management.
Experience:4+ yearsMiningMinerals processingChemicalEnergyHeavy-industrial
Education:Bachelor's
Skills:Extreme OwnershipCommunicationStakeholder managementCollaboration
Tech Stack:Capital Project OS

Company Brief

Mariana Minerals
Software-first, vertically integrated minerals company developing extraction, processing, and automation systems to supply critical minerals (lithium and others) for energy, AI, and defense technologies, and building commercial-scale lithium facilities from produced water.
Industry: Mining & Metals
Company Size: Small (11 to 50 employees)
Growth: Early Stage Startup
Funding: Series A
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
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