Technical Program Manager

About the Company

Helion is a fusion power company based in Everett, WA, with the mission to build the world's first fusion power plant, enabling a future with unlimited clean electricity. Since 2013, Helion has raised $1.5 billion from prominent investors to propel the development of fusion technology.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate Orion execution across science, engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, integration, commissioning, and operations readiness
• Help subunit owners assemble and maintain an integrated Orion-level plan
• Identify cross-team dependencies, interface risks, schedule conflicts, and unresolved ownership gaps
• Ensure major technical decisions are surfaced quickly and escalated to the right leader
• Highlight technical tradeoffs involving performance, schedule, risk, manufacturability, cost, reliability, and operability
• Drive the cadence for Orion coordination meetings, technical reviews, and executive decision forums
• Maintain visibility into the plant-level critical path by integrating inputs from responsible owners
• Track major risks, blockers, open decisions, and readiness gaps across the Orion program
• Partner with systems engineering, integration engineering, and production scheduling to connect work into a coherent execution picture
• Provide concise, accurate views of Orion status to leadership
• Build the TPM function for Orion as the program scales, including standards for dependency tracking and risk reviews

Requirements

• Experience in technical program management within complex engineering environments
• Ability to manage cross-functional dependencies across science and engineering teams
• Strong communication skills for executive-level reporting and decision framing
• Proficiency in risk management and schedule integration