Sr Manager, Machines

Cooling performance limits AI infrastructure, semiconductor equipment, photonics, power electronics, defense systems, and other high-poweredcomputeapplications.JCIaddresses these constraints with advanced thermal management components enabled by its Stack Forging? process, which creates single-piece, leak-tight metal parts with complex internal microgeometries for stronger cooling performance, lower pressuredrop, and high reliability.

This rolegenerally requires4 days onsite per week.

WhatYou?llDo

As the Senior Manager of the Machines Team atJCI, you will act as aplayer-coach, leading a critical and diverse technical group including mechanical engineers,controlsengineers, testing engineers, and technicians. Reporting to the Senior Director of Engineering, you willbe responsible forboth strategicroadmappingand hands-on technical guidance in the design, development, and continuous improvement of specialized, complex production machinery. Your team?s work enables core Stack Forging? processes through machinery for laser cutting, diffusion bonding, and coil handling, among other technologies.

Who You Are

You are an established technical leader and mentor with a broad engineering background, comfortable leading projects that span multiple disciplines (mechanical, electrical, and controls). You are a quick learner, skilled at applying engineering first principles to solve novel technical challenges, and you thrive on hands-on involvement while simultaneously drivinghigh-level strategy. Youpossessexceptional organizational skills to manage complex projects and will instill a culture of disciplined engineering, technical rigor, and excellence within your team.

Responsibilities

• Technical Leadership:Act as the technical lead and mentor,providinghands-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 Machines Team. Instill a culture of technical rigor, documentation discipline, and reliance on first principles inallengineering work. Ensure that the team is exploring a wide range of technical options for solving the issues at hand before divingin toa specific solution.

• Strategic Oversight:Define and execute the long-term technical roadmap forJCI'sspecialized 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 byestablishingstandards for design validation, rigorous testing, and comprehensive maintenance protocols.

Qualifications

• ABachelor?s degreein Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, ora relatedtechnical discipline.

• 8+ years of relevant experiencein the design, development, or operation of complex capital equipment or industrial automated systems.

• 4+ years of proven experiencemanaging and leading a multi-disciplinary technical engineering team.

• Demonstrated ability to apply engineering first principlesto solve complex, novel problems across mechanical, electrical, andcontrolsdomains.

Preferred Skills

• Deep technical familiarityor direct experience with equipment in areas such as laser processing, machine design, furnaces, metal joining, or coil handling systems.

• Expertisein managing projectsinvolving industrial automation,controlssystems (e.g., PLCs, HMIs), and machine safety standards.

• Experience applying methodologiessuch as FMEA, mapping requirements and specifications to validation and verification tests, engineering design, scrum & waterfallin the context of machinery development and risk reduction.

• An advanced degree (M.S. or Ph.D.)in a relevant engineering field.