Thea Energy
Senior Engineering Program Manager
Kearny, NJ · Senior
Sponsorship not specified$130k-$180kDetected 103 days ago
Product ManagementSupply ChainMechanical DesignHardware DesignLeadershipCommunication
About the role
- Thea Energy's dynamic team is made up of self-motivated individuals with an excitement for solving complex problems.
Responsibilities
- 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.
- Own engineering BOM strategy and NPI readiness, working closely with engineers and supply chain to balance performance, cost, availability, and manufacturability
- Proactively identify and manage technical, schedule, budget, and quality risks. develop effective mitigation strategies and contingency plans.
- Partner with technical leads to define product requirements, validation strategies, and decision gates, ensuring design tradeoffs are explicitly documented and understood across teams
- Thea Energy is seeking a highly structured, collaborative, and proactive Senior Engineering Program Manager to drive the execution of our cutting-edge hardware development programs.
- In this role, you will define and drive program planning across multidisciplinary hardware design, test, supply chain, and manufacturing teams, owning critical-path delivery for complex hardware components.
Requirements
- The company is reinventing the stellarator using computer-controlled arrays of planar coils thereby replacing the intricate, complex modular magnets required in all other stellarator architectures.
Nice to have
- product and technology roadmap development experience.
- 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.
- 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.
Compensation
- Salary range $130,000-$180,000
Benefits
- Comprehensive health benefits (e.g. medical/dental/vision)
- Employee equity stock options
Equal opportunity
- Thea Energy is an equal opportunity employer committed to creating a company of diverse backgrounds.
- By creating a diverse environment, we will bring new ideas and approaches to solving some of the world's hardest (and most important) problems.
- All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, family or marital status, age, disability, veteran's status, or other characteristic protected by applicable laws and regulations.
- Diversity and Inclusion: Thea Energy is an
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