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Burlington-Massachusetts-United States of America, United States of America
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Johnson Controls, a global leader in thermal management, mission-critical building systems, energy efficiency, and decarbonization, helps customers use energy more productively, reduce carbon emissions, and operate with the precision and resilience required in rapidly expanding industries such as data centers, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, advanced manufacturing, and higher education.
For more than 140 years, Johnson Controls has delivered performance where it really matters. Backed by advanced technology, lifecycle services and an industry-leading field organization, we elevate customer performance, turn goals into real-world results and help move society forward.
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What you will do
Thermal limits are the hidden bottleneck holding back the world’s most advanced technologies—AI infrastructure, semiconductor equipment, power electronics, and mission-critical defense systems. At Johnson Controls, we don’t work around those limits—we eliminate them. Powered by our breakthrough Stack Forging™ process, we engineer high-performance thermal components and integrated cooling loop solutions designed for direct deployment into AI, HPC, and other demanding environments. The result: a best-in-class thermal management platform built for the systems that push performance to the edge—and beyond.
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.
Reporting to the Senior Director of Engineering, you’ll operate at both altitude and depth—owning the strategic roadmap while staying closely connected to the technical details. From laser cutting and diffusion bonding to coil handling and beyond, your team designs and evolves the 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.
If you have a broad engineering foundation across mechanical, systems, and controls disciplines, you confidently lead cross-functional efforts and navigate ambiguity with speed and clarity, this could be your next opportunity! We are seeking candidates who are energized by solving novel challenges from first principles and equally motivated to roll up your sleeves when it matters most, as well as highly organized and execution-focused, you bring structure to complexity—driving large-scale projects forward while instilling a culture of rigor, accountability, and engineering excellence. As a mentor, you elevate those around you, building a team that is not only capable, but deeply committed to pushing boundaries and delivering exceptional results.
Candidates must be commuting distance to the Burlington, MA, facility, or able to relocate. Only US citizens and/or Permanent Residents of the US will be considered, as sponsorship is not available for this position
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. Ensure that the team has defined the problem and explores a wide range of technical options to address the issues at hand before diving into a specific solution.
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 experience managing and leading a multi-disciplinary technical engineering team.3+ years of proven experience
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 the context of machinery development and risk reduction.
An advanced degree (M.S. or Ph.D.) in a relevant engineering
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.) This role offers a competitive Bonus plan that will take into account individual, group, and corporate performance. This position includes a competitive benefits package. The posted salary range reflects the target compensation for this role. However, we recognize that exceptional candidates may bring unique skills and experiences that exceed the typical profile. If you believe your background warrants consideration beyond the stated range, we encourage you to apply. To support an efficient and fair hiring process, we may use technology assisted tools, including artificial intelligence (AI), to help identify and evaluate candidates. All hiring decisions are ultimately made by human reviewers. For details, please visit the About Us tab on the Johnson Controls Careers site at https://jobs.johnsoncontrols.com/about-us
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