Associate Director Engineering - HVAC / Controls

Johnson Controls, Inc.; Birmingham (AL); On-site; USD 141,000 - 235,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus plan

Benefits package

Job summary

Johnson Controls, Inc. is seeking an Associate Director to lead our centralized engineering teams across the Americas, scaling offshore resources and ensuring on-time delivery for Data Center HVAC and Controls projects.

You will coach leaders, align engineering with sales and operations, and drive profitable programs while maintaining rigorous safety and integrity standards. A sustained travel commitment (~40%) and a strong background in HVAC and large-scale project leadership are required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in business, engineering, a technical discipline, or equivalent relevant experience.
• Typically 10+ years of progressive experience in HVAC, building systems, technical services, engineering, including leadership of large complex teams.
• Strong knowledge of commercial HVAC offerings, engineering, financial planning, and project support.
• Proven ability to lead through influence, coach leaders, and drive accountability without direct reporting authority in a matrixed organization.
• Experience identifying, onboarding, coaching, and developing talent and supporting succession planning.
• Ability to communicate credibly with customers, operations leaders, and front-line teams.
• Strong financial acumen, analytical capability, structured problem solving, change leadership, and learning agility.
• Ability to travel approximately 40% of the time.

Responsibilities

• Lead our centralized engineering teams supporting the balance of our engineering teams throughout the Americas and bring to bear specialized skills and scale as needed to keep projects healthy and on track.
• Lead our engineering travel team that provides on-site support to our largest and most complex projects.
• Manage our offshore engineering program that brings engineering from our offshore team to the Americas to bring scale and resources to our large and complex projects in the Americas.
• Lead our Data Center HVAC / Controls engineering teams supporting our data center customers throughout the Americas.

Skills

Leadership of large teams

Influence and coaching

Financial acumen

Communication with customers & ops

Travel readiness

Education

Bachelor's degree in business, engineering, or technical discipline

Job description

Build your best future with the Johnson Controls team

Johnson Controls, a global leader in thermal management, mission-critical building systems, energy efficiency, and decarbonization, helps customers use energy more productively, reduce carbon emissions, and operate with the precision and resilience required in rapidly expanding industries such as data centers, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, advanced manufacturing, and higher education.

For more than 140 years, Johnson Controls has delivered performance where it really matters. Backed by advanced technology, lifecycle services and an industry-leading field organization, we elevate customer performance, turn goals into real-world results and help move society forward.

About Us:

What you will do:

The Associate Director

• Lead our centralized engineering teams supporting the balance of our engineering teams throughout the Americas and bring to bear specialized skills and scale as needed to keep projects healthy and on track.
• Lead our engineering travel team that provides on-site support to our largest and most complex projects.
• Manage our offshore engineering program that brings engineering from our offshore team to the Americas to bring scale and resources to our large and complex projects in the Americas.
• Lead our Data Center HVAC / Controls engineering teams supporting our data center customers throughout the Americas.

How you will do it:

• Own outcomes with accountability, safety, and integrityby setting clear expectations, following through on commitments, and reinforcing disciplined execution across the Americas engineering team.
• Work closely with our engineering and operations teams to ensure projects are on track, our teams are prepared, and our projects are profitable.
• Coach and develop the engineering team to ensure we have the proper skills and personal development to meet both the customers' expectations and projects requirements.
• Win as one team by building trust across sales, service operations, enablement, and branch leadership, and by using diverse perspectives to strengthen decisions.
• Use the engineering dashboards and data to drive On Time Delivery, Positive Engineering Utilization, Profitable Projects, and drive usage of our Offshore Engineering's teams.
• Work closely with your peers both locally and abroad to drive standardization, quality, and simplifications within our engineering community.
• Maintain a steady operating rhythm that supports clear priorities, timely intervention, and consistent learning across markets.

What we look for:

Required

• Bachelor's degree in business, engineering, a technical discipline, or equivalent relevant experience.
• Typically 10+ years of progressive experience in HVAC, building systems, technical services, engineering, including leadership large complex teams.
• Strong knowledge of commercial HVAC offerings, engineering, financial planning, and project support.
• Proven ability to lead through influence, coach leaders, and drive accountability without direct reporting authority in a matrixed organization.
• Experience identifying, onboarding, coaching, and developing talent and supporting succession planning.
• Ability to communicate credibly with customers, operations leaders, and front-line teams.
• Strong financial acumen, analytical capability, structured problem solving, change leadership, and learning agility.
• Ability to travel approximately 40% of the time.

HIRING SALARY RANGE: $140,600 - $234,800 (Salary to be determined by the education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities of the applicant, internal equity, location and alignment with market data.) This role offers a competitive Bonus plan that will take into account individual, group, and corporate performance. The posted salary range reflects the target compensation for this role. However, we recognize that exceptional candidates may bring unique skills and experiences that exceed the typical profile. If you believe your background warrants consideration beyond the stated range, we encourage you to apply. To support an efficient and fair hiring process, we may use technology assisted tools, including artificial intelligence (AI), to help identify and evaluate candidates. All hiring decisions are ultimately made by human reviewers. This position includes a competitive benefits package. For details, please visit the About Us tab on the Johnson Controls Careers site at https://jobs.johnsoncontrols.com/about-us