Join the power movement as an Equipment Engineering Project Manager
We are seeking an exceptional and results-driven Senior Engineering Project Manager to join our Equipment Engineering team. This position is fully dedicated to our engineering team, helping us manage progress through critical projects and establishing known routines for kicking off new initiatives. You will operate as the primary owner of several critical team projects, ensuring schedule adherence, cross functional collaboration, and sound requirements are defined.
Our team is responsible for sustaining critical product lines, commissioning new ones, designing complex tooling, and driving down a high-priority engineering backlog. Currently, our technical engineering leaders are absorbing heavy administrative project management tasks. As our dedicated EPM, you will absorb this scope, allowing leadership to focus on technical execution and resource allocation. Your work will establish the foundational tracking architecture necessary for us to scale into massive, multi-year factory build outs, next-generation strategic infrastructure projects, and resource mapping.
What you'll do:
- Lead projects by defining the work scope, establishing a comprehensive Work Breakdown Structure, and creating logic-tied schedules and cost estimates
- Develop, drive the execution of, and report on the status of project plans, which includes managing key milestones, budgets, staffing plans, and BOMs
- Evaluate new project requests by gathering relevant information to analyze defined project problems. Work with team managers to anticipate project technical, operational, and people challenges to define a proper resolution
- Guide your project group in mitigating near and medium-term risks, and actively anticipate common risks that could impact project budgets and timelines
- Regularly communicate project plans, issues, risks, and planned solutions to project command chain leaders and stakeholders through both verbal and written updates
- Ensure project team members have access to the needed context to successfully execute their tasks without relitigating past decisions
- Partner with indirect supply chain teams to manage vendor relationships—ensuring internal engineering deliverables, design reviews, and technical inputs are actioned on time to enable effective supplier execution
What we're looking for:
- Minimum of Bachelor’s degree in an engineering field
- Minimum 8 years of experience in engineering and project management
- Proven track record managing hardware or equipment engineering projects. You must have the judgment to operate mostly independently, making project decisions based on defined information that positively impacts project success
- Proficiency with project management frameworks and approaches, with the ability to apply them effectively to your projects
- A solid understanding of key engineering disciplines, alongside the ability to continually build a deeper understanding of the technical materials needed to effectively manage project execution
- The ability to adapt project plans to evolving strategic priorities and proactively help the team adjust to moderate changes
- Experience working with Jira and Confluence. Familiarity with modern scheduling tools such as MS Project, Primavera P6, or equivalent
- A reliable and persistent approach, consistently following through on work assignments even when faced with challenges
Must-have requirements:
- Perform activities such as typing, standing, stooping, and sitting, for extended periods of time
- Dedication to safety to mitigate hazards that may include heat, cold, noise, fumes, strong magnets, lead, high voltage, and cryogenics
- Willingness to occasionally travel or work required nights/weekends/on-call
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in an engineering field
- At least 8 years of engineering and project management experience
- Experience managing hardware or equipment engineering projects
- Experience applying project management frameworks and approaches
- Understanding of key engineering disciplines
- Ability to independently make project decisions and manage execution
- Ability to adapt project plans to changing strategic priorities
- Experience with Jira and Confluence
- Familiarity with Microsoft Project, Primavera P6, or equivalent scheduling tools
- Reliable and persistent follow-through on assignments
- Ability to perform extended periods of typing, standing, stooping, and sitting
- Dedication to workplace safety around heat, cold, noise, fumes, strong magnets, lead, high voltage, and cryogenics
- Willingness to occasionally travel and work nights, weekends, or on-call shifts
What We Do
Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) has the fastest, lowest cost path to commercial fusion energy. CFS is collaborating with MIT to leverage decades of research combined with new groundbreaking high-temperature superconducting (HTS) magnet technology. HTS magnets will enable compact fusion power plants that can be constructed faster and at lower cost. CFS is now building SPARC, the world's first commercially relevant, net energy fusion demonstration device. SPARC will pave the way for the first fusion power plant, ARC, that will produce power on the grid. The ultimate mission is to deploy fusion power plants to meet global decarbonization goals as fast as possible. CFS has assembled a team of leaders in tough tech, fusion science, and manufacturing with a track record of rapid execution. Supported by the world’s leading investors, CFS is uniquely positioned to deliver limitless, clean, fusion power to combat climate change. If you are interested in joining our team, check out cfs.energy/careers for more information.
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