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Hyliion is committed to creating innovative solutions that enable clean, flexible and affordable electricity production. The Company's primary focus is to develop distributed power generators that can operate on various fuel sources to future-proof against an ever-changing energy economy.

Job Purpose

The Technical Program Manager owns the planning and coordination of hardware programs focused on our assembling and other traditionally manufactured power generation components and deliverables. This role helps bridge the gap between engineering, supply chain, manufacturing, and operations, ensuring our beta-stage designs make a successful leap to production.

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Duties and Responsibilities

• Drive the end-to-end program execution of assembling the components, from prototype validation to initial production ramp.
• Partner with mechanical design engineers and manufacturing engineers to ensure designs are manufacturable and scalable.
• Develop and maintain detailed project timelines, tracking milestones, budgets, and risk mitigation plans.
• Strategic Problem-Solving: Apply a structured, hypothesis-driven approach to diagnose complex program challenges, identify root causes, and develop data-backed solutions.
• Lead cross-functional meetings to align engineering, operations, procurement, quality assurance and external vendors around shared goals.
• Coordinate testing and validation of parts, including mechanical, thermal, and durability testing in real-world power generation applications.
• Assist in supplier sourcing, DFM (Design for Manufacturability) reviews, and process validation with supplier partners. Track any ECRs resulting from modifications needed from design issues, testing, DFM or DFMEA activities.
• Report regularly to leadership on program status, blockers, and key decision points.
• Performance Management: Design, implement, and monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) and dashboards to track supply chain health and project performance. Provide regular reports to management on progress against strategic objectives.

Project Coordination & Support:

• Deep dive into the mechanical hardware program blocks.
• Track project milestones, tasks, and deadlines, proactively identifying and flagging potential delays or risks, and actively problem-solve to mitigate the risk in the delays.
• Schedule and coordinate project meetings, including preparing agendas, taking minutes, and tracking action items.
• Support the preparation of project status reports and presentations for stakeholders.

Documentation & Information Management:

• Organize all project-related documentation, including technical specifications, engineering change management, design documents, test reports, and manufacturing procedures.
• Ensure documentation is up-to-date, accessible, and compliant with company standards.
  
  Additional duties and responsibilities as assigned, needed, or required for the business.

Qualifications

Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Qualifications include:

• Education, Experience and Certifications
• • Bachelor's degree in engineering (Mechanical, Manufacturing, Industrial, or related field) or a relevant technical discipline.
  • 2-5 years of experience in project coordination, project engineering, or similar role within an engineering or manufacturing environment.
  • Experience working in a fast-paced, startup-like environment, ideally within industries such as aerospace, robotics, or other technically complex fields.

• Skills and Abilities
• • Strong organizational skills with excellent attention to detail.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex insights to audiences ranging from technical experts to executives.
  • Ability to work effectively both independently and as part of a team.
  • Proactive and eager to learn with a strong work ethic.
  • Demonstrated experience leading project teams and driving change within a complex organization.
  • Problem-Solving: A natural inclination to break down ambiguous problems into actionable steps, with a focus on delivering tangible results.

Role Classification and Working Conditions

This is a salaried, exempt-level position. This position typically works in an office environment; and given the nature of our business is also exposed to operations/warehouses/production environments.

Physical/Other Requirements

• Ability to travel, as needed, by plane, automobile, etc.

We are not accepting candidates that require sponsorship for this role at this time.

Benefits:

• Medical Plans, with PPO or HDHP options
• Dental Plans, with buy-up option
• Vision Plan
• Life Insurance and Accidental Death & Dismemberment Plans, with buy-up options
• Short Term Disability, paid for by the company
• Long Term Disability, paid for by the company
• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
• Health Savings Account (HSA)
• 401k/Roth 401k
• Voluntary Accident Plans
• Voluntary Critical Illness Plans
• Hospital Indemnity Plan

Hyliion is proud to be an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, age, disability, veteran status. If a reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to otherwise participate in the employment selection process, please direct your inquires to Hyliion's human resources department at HR@hyliion.com.