Senior Technical Program Manager, Production Engineering

About Redwood Materials Redwood is localizing a global battery supply chain that seamlessly integrates recovery, reuse, and recycling — keeping critical minerals in circulation and driving the energy transition. Founded in 2017, we’re delivering low-cost and large-scale energy storage and producing battery materials in the U.S. for the first time, all from batteries we already have. Senior Technical Program Manager, Production Engineering Redwood Materials is searching for a Senior Technical Program Manager to join our Production Engineering team in Sparks, Nevada. This team owns the engineering work that keeps our production lines running and takes them to full rate. In this role you will run the programs that move production from where it is today to where it needs to be on throughput, yield, uptime, and cost, working with process, mechanical, electrical, controls, and manufacturing engineers to scope the work, sequence it around production windows, and get it installed, qualified, and handed to operations. You will report status, flag schedule risk early, and build the recovery plan when a program slips. You will be expected to operate with a high degree of autonomy, spend real time on the plant floor, and contribute to the tools and processes that make the wider team faster. HoursFull-time Responsibilities will include: Own the program plan for production engineering projects, including scope, schedule, budget, resources, and acceptance criteria, keeping it current on milestones, deliverables, and percent complete, and managing scope changes through approval Drive throughput, yield, uptime, and cost-per-unit improvement programs from problem definition through qualification and handoff to operations Sequence engineering work around production and planned outage windows with operations and maintenance Run the commissioning and qualification path for new and modified equipment, including factory and site acceptance testing, safety review, and operational readiness Coordinate across process, mechanical, electrical, controls, quality, environment, health and safety, supply chain, and operations to close dependencies and unblock the team Track and report program status, key metrics, and dashboards for site and executive review, surfacing risks early and escalating delays with options rather than problems Run post-project reviews, roll learnings into the next program, and mentor other program managers on planning, reporting, and risk management Desired Qualifications: BS or MS in Engineering, or other evidence of exceptional ability 2-6 years of program or project management experience in a manufacturing, process, or heavy industrial environment Track record delivering production ramp, capacity expansion, or continuous improvement programs inside an operating plant Able to read piping and instrumentation diagrams (P&IDs), process flow diagrams, and equipment specifications, and hold a technical conversation with the engineers ...