Senior Technical Program Manager, Production Engineering

Role Summary

About Redwood Materials

Redwood Materials was founded in 2017 by JB Straubel, co-founder and former CTO of Tesla, on a simple but radical idea: the critical minerals powering the energy transition already exist. They just need to come back. Today Redwood is the largest lithium-ion battery recycler in North America — recovering, refining, and redeploying critical minerals from end-of-life batteries back into the supply chain. On the energy side, Redwood has deployed the largest second-life battery project in the world, delivering power to AI data centers in months rather than years using proprietary energy architecture engineered entirely in-house. The company is profitable, the market it operates in is projected to grow 20 to 50 times over the next decade, and Redwood is the only company with the supply chain, the technology, and the operational scale to lead it.

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.

Responsibilities

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

Requirements

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 doing the work
• Experience running commissioning, qualification, or operational readiness for production equipment
• Familiarity with lean and continuous improvement methods including root cause analysis, DMAIC, and Kaizen; PMP or Green Belt preferred but not required
• Proficiency with Jira, Confluence, Microsoft Office, and Microsoft Project
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication, including the ability to present to internal and external executives, and the ability to hold multiple priorities in a fast-paced, highly fluid environment
• A Passion for sustainability and making the world a better place!
• Wear proper personal protective equipment (PPE) when necessary
• Walk the production floor for extended periods, climb stairs and ladders, and work near operating equipment

Full-time

• Work across office, production floor, machine shop, chemical plant, and outdoor areas
• Exposure to noise, dust, heat, and cold
• Travel as needed, less than 10%

The position is full-time. Compensation will be commensurate with experience.

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