Operations Program Manager

VVater is America’s Next Water Company, delivering the future of purification through its award-winning Farady Reactor (CES Best of Innovation 2025, World Future Award 2025, Time Best Invention Award 2025), proprietary ALTEP (Advanced Low Tension Electroporation Process), Advanced Dissolved Air Flotation, and Micro & Nano Bubble technologies. Unlike outdated chemical, filter, and membrane systems, VVater’s electric-field breakthroughs eliminate PFAS, microplastics, microorganisms, and other contaminants with record retention times, without toxic byproducts or costly consumables. With over 4.3B gallons treated and validation from global leaders, VVater is scaling into municipal drinking water and wastewater, DPR/IPR, onsite reuse for data centers, commercial buildings, and resorts, residential purification, and consumer health water, delivering a 60% smaller footprint, 40% CapEx savings, 80% OpEx savings, and 40% less energy use. Job Description: THIS IS AN ONSITE POSITION BASED IN AUSTIN, TEXAS - NO REMOTE OR HYBRID AVAILABILITY FOR THIS POSITION The Operations Program Manager is the planning and execution engine of VVater's Operations organization. Reporting to the Director of Operations, you build the plans, the schedules, the systems, and the coordination that turn strategy and vision into work that is executable and measurable. You are the person who takes a big goal and turns it into a project plan with owners, dependencies, and dates. You build the Gantt chart. You stand up the dashboard. You run the cross-functional coordination between manufacturing, field ops, engineering, procurement, and O&M. You build the lightweight tools and automations that make the whole operation run faster. You track the metrics and surface the problems before they become fires. WHY THIS ROLE EXISTS This role exists to bring rigorous planning, systems, data, and coordination to a fast-scaling Operations organization. Working in close partnership with the Director of Operations and the broader operations team, the Operations Program Manager provides the structure and tooling that turn strategy and vision into executable plans and measurable results. It is a true partnership seat, and success is measured by how much more the entire Operations organization can accomplish because of it. You translate the plan into specific, assigned actions, and you make sure every team knows what to do and by when. WHAT THIS IS — AND WHAT IT IS NOT This role IS: • The planning, scheduling, and program-management backbone across manufacturing, field ops, and O&M • A systems-and-tools builder who creates dashboards, trackers, automations, and lightweight internal apps • A cross-functional coordinator who keeps every team aligned and every project on track • A data and reporting engine that gives leadership real-time visibility • AI-native and software-fluent; you build tools, not just use them • A high-versatility Swiss Army knife who can jump across many types of…