First Solar

First Solar

Technology and Facilities Program Manager

Santa Clara, CA, United States · Senior

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About the role

  • First Solar reserves the right to offer you a role most applicable to your experience and skillset.
  • Reporting Relationships: - Reports to Sr Manager- Process Development - Could have direct reports.
  • First Solar is committed to compliance with its obligations under all applicable state and federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination.

Responsibilities

  • Independently build and maintain integrated project plans for the equipment portfolio.
  • Owns overall project scope, schedule, budget, resources, risks, dependencies, and execution; drives equipment projects to agreed technical, safety, cost, and schedule objectives.
  • Leads design and project reviews, tracks decisions and action items, communicates status, and drives timely closure of technical and execution issues.
  • Maintains accurate project schedules, dashboards, decision logs, risk registers, action trackers, and project documentation using approved tools.
  • Develop and manage equipment-project capital and expense budgets, forecasts, purchase commitments, and cost risks in alignment with approved plans.
  • Lead automatic platform and related mechanical engineering projects, ensuring safe, technically sound, on-time, and on-budget execution.
  • Drive continuous improvement using project delivery, equipment performance, reliability, cost, and issue-closure metrics.
  • Aligns stakeholders on project objectives, requirements, priorities, and decision criteria; develops mitigation and recovery plans when commitments are at risk.
  • Coordinate equipment reliability, maintainability, serviceability, spare-parts, and support-readiness requirements with engineering and operations stakeholders.
  • Partner with EHS to ensure compliance, life safety system performance, inspections, and reporting requirements. Maintain a positive working relationship with regulators.

Requirements

  • Required to use hands to grasp, lift, handle, carry or feel objects on a frequent basis.
  • Must be able to comply with all safety standards and procedures.
  • Ability to wear personal protective equipment is required (including but not limited to

Nice to have

  • BS degree in mechanical engineering, automation, or mechatronics required
  • MS Degree in Engineering Discipline, preferred
  • MBA will be considered, but must have technology experience
  • Experience using MS Project or equivalent scheduling, resource-planning, risk-management, and action-tracking tools.
  • PMP certification or equivalent demonstrated project management capability preferred.
  • Experience with CCPM, TOC, or other resource-constrained scheduling methods and corresponding project portfolio management software is a plus.
  • Experience of facilities management or similar role is a plus.
  • Demonstrated capability leading cross-functional technical teams and influencing contributors without direct reporting authority is strongly preferred.

Skills

  • Strong proficiency with MS Project or equivalent project-management software; experience with portfolio-management systems is a plus.

Compensation

  • 170,560 USD per year- 220,000 USD per year

Benefits

  • Manage contracted facility operations teams to achieve performance, cost, and reliability goals 24*7, including on call coverage.

Company info

  • Build effective working relationships with equipment suppliers, fabricators, integrators, internal customers, and technical stakeholders.

Equal opportunity

  • Employer Statement: First Solar is an Equal Opportunity Employer that values and respects the importance of a diverse and inclusive workforce.
  • It is the policy of the company to recruit, hire, train and promote persons in all job titles without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, or gender identity.
  • We recognize that diversity and inclusion is a driving force in the success of our company.
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