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# Technical Program Manager

- **Company:** Ecolab
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $101,400.0 - $152,100.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Systems Engineering, Failure Mode Effects Analysis
- **Published:** October 5, 2026
- **Apply:** https://diversityjobs.com/career/18550859/Technical-Program-Manager-California-San-Francisco

## About the Role

* Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering or related discipline, with strong grounding in mechanical, thermal, fluid, or electromechanical product development.

 * 5+ years in technical program management, product development, systems engineering, or NPI execution for complex engineered products.

 * Proven ability to manage customer relationships, understand customer needs, and translate requirements into PRDs, technical scope, and executable plans.

 * Strong engineering collaboration skills, with the ability to drive solution trade-offs across design, validation, manufacturability, reliability, cost, and schedule.

 * Experience supporting DFMEA, technical risk assessments, root-cause analysis, issue resolution, and mitigation planning.
 * Excellent communication and influence skills with customers, engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, quality, suppliers, and leadership., Successful candidates for this position will be required to undergo background checks, including criminal record checks and education verification.

## Description

The Technical Program Manager (TPM) leads the Program Core Team and serves as its battle captain, orchestrating cross-functional execution, technical integration, and accountability. Through deep technical understanding and risk-based decision-making, the TPM drives alignment, challenges assumptions, and ensures customer commitments are translated into successful outcomes. This will be a remote role and will be reporting to the Portfolio Manager based in Calgary, Canada.

 * Lead the Program Core Team to drive from concept assessment, technical execution, cross-functional integration, customer alignment to NPI launch readiness and be accountable for the success of the overall program/project.

 * Build strong customer relationships by understanding business objectives, technical needs, decision drivers, and success criteria; support the KAM in developing new business opportunities and preparing customer proposals.

 * Collect, clarify, and translate customer requirements into product requirements, technical scope, PRDs, program plans, and measurable deliverables.

 * Drive solution development with engineering teams by challenging assumptions, facilitating design trade-offs, resolving technical issues, and aligning decisions to customer commitments and program risks.

 * Support DFMEA activities and broader technical risk assessments across design, validation, manufacturability, reliability, supply chain, cost, schedule, and launch readiness.

 * Develop and drive mitigation plans, escalation paths, recovery actions, and decision frameworks to protect customer commitments and launch outcomes.

 * Coordinate engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, quality, sales, business stakeholders, and customers to maintain technical alignment, decision velocity, and execution discipline.

 * Monitor program health through integrated schedules, dependencies, action registers, risk logs, budgets, and customer-facing status reporting in partnership with Project Managers.

 * Travel globally up to 10%-20% to support customer relationship development, requirements reviews, technical reviews, supplier engagement, production readiness, and launch activities.