Senior Product Engineering Manager

IRL03 Silent-Aire Europe Limited; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Johnson Controls in Dublin seeks a Senior Product Engineering Manager to lead the engineering development and full lifecycle of data‑centre chillers and commercial heat‑pump systems for the European market.

You will own the technical delivery, ensuring EU performance, safety, environmental, and regulatory compliance, and translate customer needs into robust engineering solutions. You will mentor the team and collaborate with Product, Operations, Quality, and Supply Chain.

Qualifications

• Degree in Mechanical, Thermal, or Energy Engineering.
• 7–12 years’ experience in HVAC product engineering.
• Strong knowledge of thermodynamics and low-GWP refrigerants.
• Experience with EU regulations and standards (EN 378, F‑Gas, CE, etc.).
• LEAN engineering practices in product development.
• Strong problem solving, collaboration, and documentation.
• Fluent in English; other European languages are a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead engineering development and full product lifecycle of data‑centre chillers and commercial heat‑pump systems for Europe.
• Own the technical delivery of HVAC products, ensuring EU performance, safety, environmental, and regulatory requirements.
• Translate customer needs, regulatory obligations, and market insights into robust engineering solutions.
• Drive cost, quality, reliability, and efficiency improvements across existing and new products.
• Support prototype builds, laboratory and field testing, certification, and customer validation activities across Europe.
• Mentor and develop engineering team members and foster a culture of technical excellence.

Skills

HVAC product engineering

Regulatory knowledge

Lean engineering

Problem solving

English fluency

Education

Degree in Mechanical/Thermal/Energy Eng

Job description

Senior Product Engineering Manager Dublin

What you will do Lead the engineering development and full product lifecycle of data‑centre chillers and commercial heat‑pump systems for the European market. Own the technical delivery of HVAC products, ensuring they meet EU performance, safety, environmental, and regulatory requirements. Translate customer needs, regulatory obligations, and market insights into clear, robust engineering solutions. Drive cost, quality, reliability, and efficiency improvements across existing and new products. Support prototype builds, laboratory and field testing, certification, and customer validation activities across Europe. Mentor and develop engineering team members, fostering a culture of technical excellence and continuous improvement. Act as a key technical partner to Product Management, Operations, Quality, Supply Chain, Service teams, and global engineering centres.

How you will do it

Deliver end‑to‑end engineering ownership, from concept through design, validation, industrialisation, and lifecycle management. Develop and review engineering specifications, CAD designs, calculations, test plans, P&IDs, and RFQs. Coordinate multidisciplinary engineering inputs across mechanical, electrical, controls, and compliance domains. Apply LEAN engineering methodologies (A3, 8D, value‑stream mapping, standard work) to improve speed, quality, and predictability. Ensure compliance with relevant EU regulations and standards, including Ecodesign/ErP, low‑GWP refrigerant requirements, and CE conformity. Partner with manufacturing and supply chain teams to enable design‑for‑manufacture and design‑for‑service. Collaborate closely with global design hubs in York (US) and Wuxi (China) to align platforms and best practices.

What we look for

• Degree (Bachelor’s or Master’s) in Mechanical, Thermal, or Energy Engineering.
• 7–12 years’ experience in HVAC product engineering, ideally within chillers and/or heat‑pump technologies.
• Strong technical knowledge of thermodynamics, HVAC/R system design, and low‑GWP refrigerants.
• Proven experience working with EU regulations and standards, including: EN 378 EU F‑Gas Regulation Pressure Equipment Directive Machinery Directive ATEX Directive Electrical safety of machinery ISO/EN and national building & ventilation standards.
• Demonstrated success applying LEAN engineering practices in a product development environment.
• Strong problem‑solving, collaboration, and documentation skills.
• Fluency in English; additional European languages are an advantage.

Johnson Controls

Enhancing the Intelligence of Buildings Your buildings have a purpose. They are places for people to live or work. Facilities for learning or healing. Venues for entertainment and shopping. Sites for the specialized storage of tangible goods or mission‑critical data. Your buildings have a huge variety of functions; they are central to your mission. This is where Johnson Controls comes in, helping drive the outcomes that matter most. Through a full range of systems and digital solutions, we make your buildings smarter. A smarter building is safer, more comfortable, more efficient, and, ultimately, more sustainable. Most important, smarter buildings let you focus more intensely on your unique mission. Better for your people. Better for your bottom line. Better for the planet. At Johnson Controls, we’ve been making buildings smarter since 1885, and our capabilities, depth of innovation experience, and global reach have been growing ever since. Today, we offer the world’s largest portfolio of building products, technologies, software, and services; we put that portfolio to work to transform the environments where people live, work, learn and play.

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