Controls Program Manager
About The Position
The Controls Program Manager provides end-to-end program management for strategic deployment and execution planning initiatives within Johnson Controls’ Systems Project Development and Execution Team. The role translates improvement priorities into coordinated programs and connects multiple workstreams, moving initiatives from definition and validation through deployment, adoption, and long-term sustainment. The position 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. It builds integrated roadmaps, coordinates process, technology, data, training, and change activities, and supports improvement and transformation events across sites. The role also establishes deployment plans, governance, feedback loops, adoption measures, benefits tracking, and routines to sustain new ways of working.
Requirements
- 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 stakeholder accountability 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 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 Haves
- 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.
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain integrated roadmaps for SDEP priorities, including 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 through 30/60/90-day follow-up, operating reviews, benefits tracking, adoption measures, and corrective-action routines.
- Maintain initiative scorecards and governance artifacts showing schedule, scope, benefits, adoption, risks, decisions, capacity, and resource constraints.
- Create feedback loops to capture frontline defects, improvement ideas, adoption barriers, and enhancement needs, and keep the improvement funnel visible from issue through standardization and deployment.
- Coordinate and follow through on initiatives end to end, keeping scope, risks, owners, and decision points visible and maintaining accountability, safety, and integrity.
- Align process owners, business leaders, and support functions around practical next steps and clear escalation paths, and remove obstacles.
- Use structured problem solving and continuous improvement to surface issues, strengthen deployment plans, and refine standard work, measures, and routines.
- Build trust and shared ownership across stakeholders and translate effectively between frontline execution and executive audiences.
Benefits
- Competitive bonus plan that takes into account individual, group, and corporate performance.
- Competitive benefits package.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
