Senior Manager- Machines Engineering

About the role

Johnson Controls, a global leader in thermal management, mission-critical building systems, energy efficiency, and decarbonization, seeks a Senior Manager of the Stack Forging Thermal Solutions Machines Team. This role is based in Burlington, MA, and requires US citizenship or permanent residency.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• 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.
• Ensure that the team has defined the problem and explored a wide range of technical options to address the issues at hand before diving into a specific solution.
• 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.
• Drive machine performance, reliability, and safety by establishing standards for design validation, requirements definition, rigorous testing, and comprehensive maintenance protocols.

Requirements

• 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 experience managing and leading a multi-disciplinary technical engineering team.
• 3+ years of proven experience demonstrating ability to apply engineering first principles to solve complex, novel problems across mechanical, electrical, and controls domains.

Qualifications

• 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 the context of machinery development and risk reduction.

Skills

• Strong technical leadership and mentoring skills.
• Proven ability to manage and lead a multi-disciplinary team.
• Ability to apply engineering first principles to solve complex, novel problems.
• Experience with industrial automation, controls systems, and machine safety standards.
• Experience with project methodologies such as FMEA, requirement mapping, and validation/verification tests.

Benefits

This role offers a competitive bonus plan that takes into account individual, group, and corporate performance. A competitive benefits package is also included.

Pay

Hiring salary range: $140,000 - $210,000 (Salary to be determined by the education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities of the applicant, internal equity, and alignment with market data.)

Schedule

The role includes a competitive benefits package.