Senior Technical Program Manager, Vancouver Pilot Manufacturing

We are a renewable energy and ocean technology company committed to rapidly developing and deploying technologies that will ensure a sustainable future for Earth by unlocking the vast energy potential of its oceans. Our focus is on capturing civilizational levels of ultra-low-cost renewable energy for applications including computing and affordable renewable fuels delivered to shore.

The company is a public benefit corporation headquartered in Portland, Oregon, and backed by leading venture capitalists, philanthropic investors, university endowments, and private investment offices. We operate as an idea meritocracy in which the best ideas change the company’s direction on a regular basis.

Our staff have worked at organizations such as SpaceX, Blue Origin, Boeing, Tesla, Apple, Virgin Orbit, Astra, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, New Relic, Bridgewater, Raytheon, Disney Imagineering, and the US Army and Air Force, as well as research universities, startups, and small companies across a range of industries.

Our core technology is the node, a device that produces energy in the ocean’s harshest conditions for years at a time without human maintenance or intervention.

We've proven we can build Nodes in small quantities. This role exists to make the path to repeatable production move faster. Manufacturing Technology defines the qualification requirements for each Node manufacturing process and owns delivery of the qualified process set. You will track readiness against those requirements — maintaining visibility into where each process stands, what evidence is still outstanding, and what is blocking it — and coordinate the cross-functional execution planning that closes the gaps.

Your primary deliverable is velocity: sequencing process development work, surfacing constraints before they bite, and keeping engineering effort pointed at the qualification gates that matter most to the pilot program

This role is based at our new Pilot Manufacturing campus in Vancouver, Washington - the facility where Ocean-3 Nodes stop being drawings and start being steel. We're standing up heavy fabrication, blast and coatings, and full Node integration, which means the process development work happens feet away from the weld seams and the paint booth. You'll help build the line that builds the fleet.

Candidates should have strong interpersonal skills and be able to thrive in a creative, scrappy, and collaborative environment in which the best ideas change the company’s direction on a regular basis.

• Manage project milestone schedules for pilot manufacturing process development, ensuring clear communication of status, risks, and dependencies to internal stakeholders.
• Lead design and test sprint planning for the internal manufacturing team, balancing resource constraints and competing priorities across projects.
• Drive clear-to-build decisions, closing gaps across engineering release, material availability, tooling, and work instructions ahead of build start.
• Support the transition from development to pilot production by facilitating manufacturing readiness reviews and DFM feedback to engineering.
• Collaborate with the internal procurement team, external suppliers, and fabrication partners to ensure timely, high-quality delivery of components.
• Coordinate new equipment and tooling readiness from delivery through qualification.
• Monitor and elevate program risks, while proactively contributing to mitigation strategies.
• Develop and maintain documentation and tools that support production execution and scaling, in alignment with TPM best practices.

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or a related technical field.
• 2+ years of experience managing technical programs in a…