Field Technical Program Manager

TAE Power Solutions (TPS) is the electrification spin-off from TAE Technologies, a leader in nuclear fusion technology. The company is leveraging unique power management technology originally developed for nuclear fusion and applying it in adjacent industries including Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) and DC Fast Charging for electric vehicles.

About the Role

The Technical Program Management team exists to ensure disciplined, cross-functional execution across product development and customer delivery programs. The team provides structured program governance, integrates work across all cross functional teams, and drives visibility into schedules, risks, and dependencies.

The TPM function enables the organization to translate product strategy and engineering outputs into executable programs, ensuring prototypes, new product introductions, and customer deployments progress predictably from concept through delivery.

By establishing consistent program frameworks, milestone accountability, and proactive risk management, the team helps reduce execution gaps, accelerate product readiness, and support the company’s ability to scale innovation and customer deployments.

As the company scales product development and customer deployments, we are expanding the Technical Program Management capability to strengthen cross-functional execution across both internal product development and external program delivery.

This role leads customer-facing field execution and technical issue resolution for BESS and related energy storage solutions. As the primary program coordination point for field issues, it works across Engineering, Operations, Service, Supply Chain, contract manufacturers, and customers to drive timely troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, corrective action, and closure. The role ensures clear ownership, priorities, milestones, and communication, and turns customer and field feedback into actionable inputs for product improvement, reliability, and future deployments, while technical decisions and functional deliverables remain with the respective Engineering, Operations, and Service owners.

Role Attributes

• Customer-focused, with a strong sense of urgency and ownership, treating every field issue and customer commitment as their own through to resolution.

• Highly organized and execution-oriented, able to drive multiple technical issues in parallel, balancing competing priorities, owners, and deadlines.

• Effective cross-functional integrator who can influence teams without direct reporting authority, building alignment across Engineering, Operations, Service, Supply Chain, and external partners

• Structured problem solver with the ability to translate complex technical discussions into actionable plans with clear owners, milestones.

• Proactive in identifying risks, dependencies, and potential customer impacts.

• Calm and decisive when managing escalations and time-sensitive field situations, keeping stakeholders informed.

• Strong communicator who can engage customers, technical experts, suppliers, and executives.

• Accountable for follow-through, transparent status reporting, and closure of commitments.

• Adaptable to changing priorities, field conditions, and evolving product maturity

Qualifications, Functional Experience & Skills

Required

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Power Electronics, Energy Systems, or a related technical field (equivalent experience considered)

• 5-8+ years in technical program management, field engineering, systems integration, commissioning, or technical issue resolution

• Experience with complex electro-mechanical systems, power conversion equipment, energy storage, or industrial power systems

• Track record leading cross-functional teams through technical investigations and customer escalations

• Experience managing issues from identification through containment, root-cause analysis, corrective action, and closure

• Familiarity or working knowledge of BESS architecture, including battery systems, PCS, controls, thermal management, and Ability to interpret equipment specifications, alarms, fault logs, test results, and commissioning records

• Proficiency with project management and issue tracking tools (e.g., Jira, Confluence, Microsoft Project, Excel)

• Strong communication skills, including customer-facing communication, clear written reporting, and influencing without direct authority

• Ability to travel 25-30% to customer sites and manufacturing or test facilities as needed (Add a % of travel here).

Preferred

• Hands-on field troubleshooting experience, including site readiness, startup, and diagnostics

• Familiarity with structured root-cause methods (5 Whys, Fishbone, fault-tree, failure analysis) and corrective/preventive action programs

• Experience coordinating with contract manufacturers, suppliers, and quality teams on product and workmanship issues

• Understanding of power electronics and controls, including PCS/inverters, communications, and system-level performance

• Familiarity with engineering change management, configuration control, field quality, and lessons-learned processes

• Working knowledge of safety practices and applicable energy storage standards

• Data-driven reporting experience, including issue aging and trend analysis

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At TAE Power Solutions, we design power systems that use less but do more. Systems that charge faster, run stronger, go farther, and last longer. We inspire better ways to move, work, play, and live.

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You are confident in your skills, based on your credentials, technical accomplishments, and positive impact on your teams/organizations.

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You are collaborative and work well within and with teams to approach challenges with respect, transparency, optimism, and confidence to succeed together.

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