Design Manager

About Redwood Materials

Redwood Materials was founded in 2017 by JB Straubel, co-founder and former CTO of Tesla, on a simple but radical idea: the critical minerals powering the energy transition already exist. They just need to come back. Today Redwood is the largest lithium-ion battery recycler in North America — recovering, refining, and redeploying critical minerals from end-of-life batteries back into the supply chain. On the energy side, Redwood has deployed the largest second-life battery project in the world, delivering power to AI data centers in months rather than years using proprietary energy architecture engineered entirely in-house. The company is profitable, the market it operates in is projected to grow 20 to 50 times over the next decade, and Redwood is the only company with the supply chain, the technology, and the operational scale to lead it.

Senior Design Manager

Designing & building infrastructure, at record speed, is key to enabling us to scale worldwide. We are looking for a highly motivated Design Manager to join our Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EPC) team. 

In this role, you will own and drive design and engineering efforts for construction and infrastructure development from concept to production. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in engineering, construction, manufacturing, and/or project management. 

This role requires a highly organized mindset, a passion for driving multi-disciplinary projects, and an ability to pull people together to make things happen. You must be detail oriented, question requirements, identify real barriers, and drive cross-functional teams to execute quickly at high quality. You will drive collaboration between Process Engineering, Construction, Manufacturing, Facilities, and Production to ensure alignment with company priorities. You will translate scattered information into concise, complete documentation and communicate it to every team member. This position will be located at our factory in TRIC (Tahoe Reno Industrial Center) Reno, Nevada. 

Responsibilities will include:

• Fundamentally understand stakeholders’ requirements and translate them into clear project objectives. Distill, document, and manage scope effectively to support highly dynamic environment.  
• Manage and lead Infrastructure and Tool Install projects through conceptualization, feasibility, funding, design (30%/60%/90%/IFC), change management, and engineering services during construction.  
• Manage permitting and construction documents including transmittals and RFI’s. 
• Co-manage infeed of customer requests from all site teams. 
• Own project funding request process for major infrastructure improvements. 
• Coordinate key project schedule requirements with our Procurement and Construction partners for the overall schedule success of the project. 
• Identify resource requirements and highlight gaps and constraints across various stages for all projects. Influence various teams outside of direct reporting structure. 
• Build and maintain strong relationships with the various cross-functional teams to ensure overall program alignment. 
• Define strategies for project delivery methods including design bid build, integrated project development, and fast track projects. 
• Understand lean construction principles and fully integrated design using Building Information Modeling (BIM). 
• Implement innovative engineering and design methodologies to support very aggressive programs and construction schedules. 
• Support, lead feasibility studies, value engineering efforts, and options analysis. 

Desired Qualifications:

• B.S. in Architectural, Civil, Mechanical, Chemical, Electrical Engineering, M.S preferred but not required.  
• PE or RA License preferred. 
• Experience managing multi-disciplinary scopes within A/E or Design Engineering firms. At least 5 years’ experience desired. 
• Excellent communication and documentation skills with ability to understand complex problems and distill the message into a clear plan to technical and non-technical stakeholders.  
• Experience designing manufacturing facilities and site infrastructure including tool install (e.g., building, utilities, installation of manufacturing equipment). 
• Fully understanding all engineering disciplines and be able to demonstrate skills to manage engineering resources.  
• Experience working with codes and jurisdictions and be able to build strong relationships with external partners.  
• Advanced project management skills, demonstrated application of project, and program management fundamentals to complex engineering problems.  
• Ability to effectively execute projects and tasks in parallel.  
• Positive, enthusiastic, fast learner, can-do mindset and passionate about manufacturing infrastructure. 
• Thrives under pressure and in ambiguous environments.  

The position is full-time. Compensation will be commensurate with experience.

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