Jobs Companies Thea Energy Senior Engineering Program Manager

About this Senior Engineering Program Manager role at Thea Energy

Thea Energy · Onsite · Kearny, NJ

Key Responsibility Areas:

  • 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.
  • Partner with technical leads to define product requirements, validation strategies, and decision gates, ensuring design tradeoffs are explicitly documented and understood across teams
  • Own engineering BOM strategy and NPI readiness, working closely with engineers and supply chain to balance performance, cost, availability, and manufacturability
  • Provide regular, detailed program updates to leadership and stakeholders, highlighting progress, technical challenges, and proposed solutions.
  • Proactively identify and manage technical, schedule, budget, and quality risks.  develop effective mitigation strategies and contingency plans.
  • Ideal Experience & Skillsets:

  • 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.
  • Strong grasp of DFM principles and the realities of design, build, test cycles.
  • 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.
  • Nice to have: product and technology roadmap development experience.
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    Company Benefits:

  • Salary range $130,000-$180,000
  • Comprehensive health benefits (e.g. medical/dental/vision)
  • Employee equity stock options
  • 20 days PTO
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    How this Program Manager salary compares

    This role pays $155,000/yrin line with the typical range for Program Manager roles.

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