Hardware Engineering Program Manager (BH0023)

About The Role

Charm is looking for an Hardware Engineering Program Manager to join our team to lead development efforts for our next generation pyrolyzers, from prototype through production. In this role, you’ll work cross functionally across various teams including engineering, operations, facilities, supply chain, and test eng. You’ll be responsible for defining and tracking critical program milestones and metrics, managing business and technology risks, and establishing clear priorities for team members.

Responsibilities:

• Bring context and a holistic perspective to cross-functional teams to ensure they’re working around the right set of requirements and constraints when developing solutions
• Track key metrics such as $/Tonne of Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) as well as CDR produced per day, and evaluate the prioritization of work based on the largest impact to these key metrics
• Support teams in breaking down major program milestones into individual projects with associated deliverables and schedules, using your previous background in hardware development to mitigate risks
• Proactively identify initiatives that are likely to fail and work with teams to develop alternative plans and solutions
• Create clarity, alignment, and communication around key decisions that will affect the outcome of the program
• Implement new processes to keep teams working efficiently and bring visibility to program progress such as change management systems, Phase gate reviews, status tracking, and decision documents.
• Occasional travel (about once per month) to our Colorado office is expected
  
  
  

Requirements:

• At least 7+ years of experience
• Excited about joining a startup and a chance to pivot into climate
• Doer with a strong sense of ownership - you understand your role is not just note-taker, risk manager, and taskmaster but rather your responsibility is to relentlessly drive progress forward
• Experience completing at least one full hardware development cycle in a fast paced environment
• Experience interfacing with mechanical, electrical, software, finance, supply chain and operations teams, and tracking dependencies between them
• Clear understanding of the critical path and ability to articulate priorities and the why behind them to team members.
• Depth of experience developing detailed schedules, and tracking those in commonly used software suites like JIRA
• Strong organization and communication skills
• A desire to improve our processes to make work easier for our team
• A clear voice for when a task is misestimated or misprioritized
  
  
  

Bonus (but not required):

• 3+ years of experience as project or program manager
• Experience building resource-based schedules
• Engineering or mechatronics background
  
  
  

The anticipated salary range is $130 - $190k, dependent on factors such as experience within the job, within the industry, education, etc