Senior Manager - Machines Engineering (onsite)

What you will do As the Senior Manager of the Stack Forging Thermal Solutions Machines Team at Johnson Controls, you won’t just lead a team—you’ll drive the engineering backbone behind a breakthrough manufacturing platform. Acting as a true player‑coach, you’ll guide a highly skilled, multidisciplinary group of mechanical, controls, and test engineers, along with technicians, delivering the advanced machinery that powers our Stack Forging™ process. You will own the strategic roadmap while staying closely connected to technical details, designing and evolving specialized production systems that bring our most critical innovations to life. Your leadership will directly influence how we scale performance, reliability, and capability across next‑generation manufacturing. How you will do it Technical Leadership : Act as the technical lead and mentor, providing hands‑on engineering guidance for machine design, controls integration, and testing efforts across the team’s diverse technical base. Team Management and Culture : Lead, hire, and develop the multidisciplinary Machine Engineering Team. Instill a culture of technical rigor, documentation discipline, and reliance on first principles in all engineering work. Strategic Oversight : Define and execute the long‑term technical roadmap for the team’s specialized production machinery, ensuring continuous alignment with production scaling goals and reporting progress directly to the Senior Director of Engineering. Development and Validation : Drive machine performance, reliability, and safety by establishing standards for design validation, requirements definition, rigorous testing, and comprehensive maintenance protocols. What you will need Required: Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical discipline. 7+ years of relevant experience in the design, development, or operation of complex capital equipment or industrial automated systems. 3+ years of experience managing and leading a multidisciplinary technical engineering team. Demonstrated ability to apply engineering first principles to solve complex, novel problems across mechanical, electrical, and controls domains. Preferred: Deep technical familiarity or direct experience with equipment in areas such as laser processing, machine design, furnaces, metal joining, or coil handling systems. Expertise in managing projects involving industrial automation, controls systems (e.g., PLCs, HMIs), and machine safety standards in a dynamic environment. Experience applying methodologies such as FMEA, mapping requirements and specifications to validation and verification tests, engineering design, scrum & waterfall in machinery development and risk reduction. Advanced degree (M.S. or Ph.D.) in a relevant engineering discipline. Hiring Salary Range $140,000 – $210,000 (Salary to be determined by the applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, internal equity, and market data). This role offers a competitive bonus plan that takes into account individual, group, and corporate performance. This position includes a competitive benefits package. 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. #J-18808-Ljbffr