Director of Project Management

About the role

Role Summary The Director of Project Management leads the planning, execution, and delivery of engineering and pilot deployment projects across the organization. This role owns project scope, schedule, and budget from kickoff through commissioning, and serves as the technical and operational partner to the Vice President of Engineering. This is a leadership facing role, responsible for regularly presenting project status, financial performance, and risk to the Leadership Team. As Via moves from pilot deployments to commercial systems of $40M and greater, this role will lead delivery of the company’s first commercial-scale projects in new sectors. This role operates with minimal oversight and is accountable for the delivery of all active engineering programs. It combines engineering depth with disciplined cost control, documentation, and vendor management, and works closely with the Finance and Purchasing teams on budgets, procurement, and spend control. Missed schedules, budget overruns, or incomplete engineering at this level directly affect customer commitments and company priorities.

Responsibilities

• Builds and owns project plans, schedules, budgets, and work breakdown structures for all active engineering programs
• Tracks progress using scheduling tools scaled to each project’s complexity and keeps work aligned with project goals
• Confirms engineering deliverables are complete before procurement or fabrication begins
• Identifies technical and schedule risks early and drives mitigation plans to closure
• Keeps customers, partners, and internal teams informed through regular status reporting, meeting minutes, and action logs
• Maintains Confluence project pages as the single source of truth for each project
• Addresses stakeholder concerns promptly and escalates issues to leadership when needed
• Analyzes project financial and schedule data and presents findings and recommendations to the Leadership Team
• Works closely with the Finance and Purchasing teams to align project budgets, procurement activities, purchase orders, and payment approvals
• Sets up project accounting codes and budgets in coordination with FP&A
• Approves and controls committed spend through purchase orders in Quickbase, with invoice matching