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About this Program Controls Lead role at Thea Energy

Thea Energy · Onsite · Kearny, NJ
About Thea Energy: 
Thea Energy is leveraging recent breakthroughs in stellarator physics and engineering to create a faster and simpler approach to commercializing fusion energy. 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. Thea Energy is on a mission to create a limitless source of zero emission energy for a sustainable future. 

Key Responsibility Areas:

  • Build, maintain, and own the integrated master schedule across engineering, procurement, manufacturing, installation, and commissioning workstreams.
  • Develop schedule logic, milestones, and interdependencies with technical leads, and challenge durations and assumptions constructively.
  • Identify and communicate the critical path, near-critical paths, and key schedule drivers.
  • Run schedule risk analyses and turn the results into mitigation options and decision-ready recommendations.
  • Track progress, forecast completion, and report variances and trends to leadership and stakeholders on a regular cadence.
  • Manage baselines and schedule change control, and integrate vendor and long-lead procurement schedules into the IMS.
  • Partner with Program Managers and integrate cost control and risk management to keep schedule, budget, and risk data consistent across the program.
  • Company Benefits:

  • Comprehensive health benefits (e.g. medical/dental/vision)
  • Employee equity stock options
  • 20 days PTO

  • It’s not necessary to meet all of the skillsets outlined above. Please feel free to send us a note and tell us why you would still be a great fit for this role or Thea Energy.  
      
    Diversity and Inclusion:  
    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.
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