# Sr./Staff Technical Program Manager - Copper

**Company:** [Mariana Minerals](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/mariana-minerals)
**Location:** Moab, UT
**Role:** Technical Program Management
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Program Management, Project Management, Capital Projects, Integrated Scheduling, Budget Management, Risk Management, Project Controls, Change Control, P&Ids, Construction Management, Commissioning, Procurement, Stakeholder Management, Dashboards
**Posted:** 2026-09-03

> Owns end-to-end planning and execution of capital programs from development through construction and operational handover. The role requires capital-project management experience, engineering fluency, integrated schedule and budget ownership, and coordination across multidisciplinary internal and external teams.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end delivery of assigned capital programs, including scope, schedule, budget, risk, development, construction, and handover to operations.
- Build and maintain integrated program schedules, tracking critical paths, interdependencies, long-lead items, and resource needs.
- Own budgets and cost forecasts in partnership with project controls and finance; manage estimates, commitments, variances, and change control.
- Coordinate process development, process engineering, detailed engineering, procurement, construction, business development, finance, vendors, contractors, and engineering partners.
- Run execution planning, design reviews, status meetings, readiness gates, and program cadence checkpoints.
- Identify and quantify risks and open decisions, drive them to closure, and escalate with recommendations.
- Produce program reporting and dashboards covering status, critical path, risks, and trade-offs.
- Manage external partners, vendors, and contractors against scope, deliverable schedules, and quality expectations.
- Use the Capital Project OS to standardize execution, provide feedback to software and product teams, and drive adoption across workstreams.
- Support construction, commissioning, and startup in the field.
- Contribute to program-management standards, templates, and metrics.

## Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or a related technical field.
- 4+ years of program or project management experience on capital projects in mining, minerals processing, chemical, energy, or heavy-industrial environments.
- Experience owning an integrated schedule and budget for projects spanning multiple engineering disciplines and external partners.
- Strong technical fluency, including the ability to read P&IDs, general arrangements, and equipment lists.
- Excellent written and verbal communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Willingness to travel to project sites as required.

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