Associate Director Engineering - HVAC / Controls
About The Position
The Associate Director leads centralized engineering teams that support engineering teams throughout the Americas, providing specialized skills and resources to keep projects healthy and on track. The role leads an engineering travel team that provides on-site support to the largest and most complex projects, manages an offshore engineering program that brings offshore engineering resources to projects in the Americas, and leads Data Center HVAC / Controls engineering teams supporting customers throughout the Americas. The position is accountable for outcomes, safety, and integrity across the Americas engineering team. It works closely with engineering and operations teams to keep projects on track, prepare teams, and support project profitability. The Associate Director coaches and develops engineering talent, builds trust across sales, service operations, enablement, and branch leadership, and uses engineering dashboards and data to improve on-time delivery, engineering utilization, project profitability, and use of offshore engineering teams. The role also works with local and international peers to advance standardization, quality, and simplification, while maintaining a steady operating rhythm that supports clear priorities, timely intervention, and learning across markets.
Requirements
- 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, or 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 centralized engineering teams supporting teams throughout the Americas, providing specialized skills and resources to keep projects healthy and on track.
- Lead the engineering travel team that provides on-site support to the largest and most complex projects.
- Manage the offshore engineering program that provides engineering resources to large and complex projects in the Americas.
- Lead Data Center HVAC / Controls engineering teams supporting data center customers throughout the Americas.
- Set clear expectations, follow through on commitments, and reinforce disciplined execution across the Americas engineering team, with accountability, safety, and integrity.
- Work with engineering and operations teams to keep projects on track, prepare teams, and support project profitability.
- Coach and develop engineering employees to ensure the team has the skills and development needed to meet customer expectations and project requirements.
- Build trust across sales, service operations, enablement, and branch leadership, using diverse perspectives to strengthen decisions.
- Use engineering dashboards and data to drive on-time delivery, positive engineering utilization, profitable projects, and use of offshore engineering teams.
- Work with local and international peers to drive standardization, quality, and simplification within the engineering community.
- Maintain an operating rhythm that supports clear priorities, timely intervention, and consistent learning across markets.
Benefits
- Competitive bonus plan based on individual, group, and corporate performance.
- Competitive benefits package; details are available on the Johnson Controls Careers site.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
