Sr./Staff Technical Program Manager - Lithium

Mariana Minerals
San Francisco
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 150,000 - 200,000 annuallyFunction: Program & Project Management (PMO)Experience: 4+ yearsEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Communication","Stakeholder management","Risk management"]

Own end-to-end delivery of a capital program, managing scope, integrated schedule, budget, and risk from development through construction and handover to operations. Coordinate across engineering disciplines, procurement, construction, business development, and finance, maintaining execution cadence, reporting, and readiness gates. Use Mariana’s Capital Project OS to drive standardized execution, surface and quantify risks early, and support field construction, commissioning, and startup.

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Mariana Minerals
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Sr./Staff Technical Program Manager - Lithium

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Job Summary

Own end-to-end delivery of a capital program, managing scope, integrated schedule, budget, and risk from development through construction and handover to operations. Coordinate across engineering disciplines, procurement, construction, business development, and finance, maintaining execution cadence, reporting, and readiness gates. Use Mariana’s Capital Project OS to drive standardized execution, surface and quantify risks early, and support field construction, commissioning, and startup.
Location: San Francisco
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 move decisions quickly.
  • •Run program cadence and checkpoints, surface risks and open decisions early, quantify impacts, drive them to closure, and produce leadership reporting and dashboards.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 150,000 - 200,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity

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.
  • •Demonstrated ownership of an integrated schedule and budget across multiple engineering disciplines and external partners.
  • •Strong technical fluency to read P&IDs, general arrangements, and equipment lists.
  • •Excellent written and verbal communication and stakeholder management skills.
Experience:4+ yearsMiningMinerals processingChemicalEnergyHeavy-industrial
Education:Bachelor's in Engineering
Skills:CommunicationStakeholder managementRisk management
Tech Stack:Capital Project OSP&IDs

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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