Engineering Director - Data Center HVAC & Global Delivery

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

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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

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.