Controls Program Manager

1008 Johnson Controls Inc.; Glendale (CA); Hybrid; USD 104,000 - 156,000; Full time

Job summary

Johnson Controls seeks a Systems Program Manager to lead end-to-end deployment and execution across multiple sites. You will align improvement priorities, connect cross-functional teams, and drive standardized, scalable solutions from definition through sustainment.

You will coordinate Kaizen, workshops, and transformation events, building comprehensive roadmaps, scorecards, and governance artifacts while engaging frontline and executive stakeholders to deliver measurable business impact.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in business, engineering, operations, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience leading complex, cross-functional programs or projects with multiple concurrent workstreams.
• Ability to translate strategy into integrated execution plans and drive accountability across stakeholders without relying solely on direct authority.
• Working knowledge of Lean, Kaizen, value stream mapping, standard work, daily management, structured problem solving, or comparable continuous-improvement methods.
• Experience with deployment, organizational change, training coordination, adoption measurement, and sustainment planning.
• Strong facilitation, stakeholder management, executive communication, risk management, and action-plan discipline.
• Ability to work across business processes, technology, data, and organizational boundaries and communicate effectively with frontline and executive audiences.
• Comfort working with hybrid and multi-site events, ambiguous work, evolving priorities, and globally distributed stakeholders.
• Proficiency with program-management, collaboration, dashboard, and workflow tools.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain integrated roadmaps for SDEP priorities with milestones, owners, dependencies, resources, measures.
• Coordinate sequencing across process, technology, data, training, and change activities as one operating system.
• Plan and support Kaizen, value stream mapping, Gemba, pilot, transformation, and scaling events.
• Develop event charters, scopes, agendas, and follow-up actions with process owners.
• Design deployment plans using Prepare, Validate, and Deploy phases with leadership kickoffs and hypercare.
• Build sustainment into initiative design with follow-ups, reviews, benefits tracking, and adoption measures.
• Maintain initiative scorecards and governance artifacts tracking schedule, scope, benefits, risks, and capacity.

Skills

Lean

Kaizen

Value stream mapping

Standard work

Daily management

Problem solving

Stakeholder management

Cross-functional leadership

Executive communication

Program management

Education

Bachelor's degree

Equivalent practical experience

Tools

Dashboards

Workflow tools

Program-management tools

Job description

About Us

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.

Systems Program Manager

At Johnson Controls, the Systems Project Development and Execution Team supports strategic deployment and execution planning across the Systems Project Development and Execution value stream. This role connects improvement priorities, cross-functional teams, and local leaders to turn validated solutions into deployed, adopted, and sustained ways of working. The Systems Enablement Program Manager provides end-to-end program management for strategic deployment and execution planning initiatives. You will translate improvement priorities into coordinated programs, connect multiple workstreams, and help move initiatives from definition and validation through deployment, adoption, and long-term sustainment. The role serves as an operational integrator across process owners, business leaders, Business System, data and AI, solutions development, Learning and Development, regional and area leaders, branch leaders, and Process Champions.

Key Responsibilities

• Build and maintain integrated roadmaps for SDEP priorities, with clear milestones, owners, dependencies, resources, measures, and decision points.
• Coordinate sequencing across process, technology, data, training, and change activities so related initiatives are delivered as one operating system.
• Plan and support Kaizen, value stream mapping, Gemba, pilot, transformation, and scaling events, including hybrid and multi-site sessions.
• Develop event charters, scopes, agendas, pre-work plans, participant models, communication plans, logistics, readiness checklists, and follow-up actions with process owners.
• Design deployment plans using Prepare, Validate, and Deploy phases, including leadership kickoffs, area transformation events, role-based enablement, and hypercare.
• Build sustainment into initiative design with 30/60/90-day follow-up, operating reviews, benefits tracking, adoption measures, and corrective-action routines.
• Maintain initiative scorecards and governance artifacts that show schedule, scope, benefits, adoption, risks, decisions, capacity, and resource constraints.
• Create feedback loops that capture frontline defects, improvement ideas, adoption barriers, and enhancement needs, and keep the improvement funnel visible from issue through standardization and deployment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in business, engineering, operations, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience leading complex, cross-functional programs or projects with multiple concurrent workstreams.
• Ability to translate strategy into integrated execution plans and drive accountability across stakeholders without relying solely on direct authority.
• Working knowledge of Lean, Kaizen, value stream mapping, standard work, daily management, structured problem solving, or comparable continuous-improvement methods.
• Experience with deployment, organizational change, training coordination, adoption measurement, and sustainment planning.
• Strong facilitation, stakeholder management, executive communication, risk management, and action-plan discipline.
• Ability to work across business processes, technology, data, and organizational boundaries and communicate effectively with frontline and executive audiences.
• Comfort working with hybrid and multi-site events, ambiguous work, evolving priorities, and globally distributed stakeholders.
• Proficiency with program-management, collaboration, dashboard, and workflow tools.

Nice to Have

• Experience supporting systems integration or digital enablement within a transformation program.
• Experience partnering with Learning and Development on role-based training packages and rollout support.
• Experience building scorecards, dashboards, or benefits tracking routines for enterprise initiatives.
• Exposure to global or multi-site continuous-improvement deployments.

Why Join Us

This is a high-impact role for someone who enjoys turning strategy into clear execution. You will work across business leaders, process owners, Business System, data and AI, solutions development, Learning and Development, and regional teams to help new ways of working take hold and deliver measurable results. The role offers broad visibility, meaningful collaboration, and the chance to strengthen how initiatives are deployed, adopted, and sustained.

HIRING SALARY RANGE

HIRING SALARY RANGE: $103,600 - $155,650 (Salary to be determined by the education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities of the applicant, internal equity, and alignment with market data.) This role offers a competitive Bonus plan that will take into account individual, group, and corporate performance. This position includes a competitive benefits package. 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. 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. For details, please visit the About Us tab on the Johnson Controls Careers site at https://jobs.johnsoncontrols.com/about-us.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Johnson Controls International plc. is an equal employment opportunity and affirmative action employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, protected veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a qualified individual with a disability or any other characteristic protected by law. To view more information about your equal opportunity and non-discrimination rights as a candidate, visit EEO is the Law. If you are an individual with a disability and you require an accommodation during the application process, please visit here.

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.