We are seeking a Program Manager to join our federal team supporting our Outside the Continental United States (OCONUS) projects, primarily in South Korea and Japan. As a Program Manager within Johnson Controls Federal Systems (JCFS), your goal is to support our international operations team and drive maximum sales and profitability. This is done through the development, deployment and support of enterprise level customer and operational initiatives.
At Johnson Controls, we support our nation's most critical facilities, the people who occupy them, and the missions they enable. Johnson Controls Federal Systems (JCFS) is a specialized team serving as a trusted partner to the federal government. We help modernize U.S. military installations, Department of Defense and other federal agency facilities to be smarter, more resilient, efficient, sustainable, and secure.
Benefits: Eligible for benefits on first day of employment
Vacation: 3 weeks of paid vacation, 5 sick days, 3 floating holidays, and 10 standard holidays per calendar year
Travel Required: 25-30%, mostly international
As a Program Manager, you will:
- Support the development and execution of enterprise-wide engineering standards, engineering processes, and implementation methods for specific accounts.
- Design, develop and support solutions that streamline our building automation system approach for assigned accounts/projects.
- Support the development of strategic initiatives and enterprise level improvements for assigned accounts
- Develop and maintain high level relationships with the customer. Assist and advise customers in the development of standard designs, implementation goals and deployment strategies. Effectively communicate and ensure customer satisfaction.
- Work closely with the customer and JCFS to align with defined strategies. Implement customer's standard design requirements and processes within JCFS.
- Leverage available, or specify the development of, business analytics for internal and external customers performance KPIs, including project schedule compliance, customer satisfaction and cost performance. Provide periodic reviews to update leadership and key stakeholders on progress.
- Facilitate the efficient transfer of design standards to JCFS sales, engineering, and field organizations. Focus on standardization to provide value of efficiency, quality, and cost performance.
- Maintain expertise in a variety of building domains and JCFS processes and tools.
- Provide subject matter expertise for building technology. Instill quality in all solutions delivered. Ensure contractual compliance of work performed.
- Coordinate JCFS's product and technology roadmap, and operational execution, to the customers' technology vision. Align customers' requirements with JCFS's offerings.
- Coordinate with customer stakeholders and communicate information related to critical activities, resources, and timelines.
- Develop innovative methods for project delivery and process execution to meet customer expectations and needs
- Support the development and maintenance of design documentation for all aspects of the enterprise deployment of standards, including hardware engineering design documentation, sequence of operations, and commissioning. Keep all documentation and data updated and available.
- Work across multiple engineering / design teams and locations to ensure consistency and standard practices while optimizing engineering efficiency.
- Provide high-level technical support to the field organization for the implementation of enterprise level initiatives and engineered solutions.
- Become highly knowledgeable on customer's design and implementation strategies. Attend design and project meetings, ensuring that projects are delivered with a high degree of customer satisfaction, on time and within budget.
- Provide leadership to train and direct multi-disciplined technical, subcontractors, and administrative personnel to resolve engineering, administrative and field issues occurring during project implementation and installation. Coach and mentor technical and project team members on effective project management practices and techniques. Foster a continuous improvement environment with quality tools, behaviors, and practices.
- Coordinate with local project leadership to address project execution issues. Support field installation in the resolution of escalated program or project related issues.
- Develop internal network of support across various levels of the organization to aide in issue resolution for the customer.
Required Qualifications:
- 5+ years of direct experience in program management and/or program administration in the construction, building solutions or technologies industries.
- Proven team leader capabilities and supervision experience in dealing with large integrated projects and programs
- Superior documentation and organizational skills. Must be detail oriented. Must possess and demonstrate excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communications skills
- Highly motivated and results oriented. Able to communicate clearly and lead by influence. Ability to work effectively in a highly matrixed organization
- Ability to travel up to 25%.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience working with international project sites
- Experience working with healthcare construction projects.
Preferred Education:
- Bachelor's Degree or higher from an accredited university in engineering, science, Engineering, Construction, Project Management or Business Administration or other related fields
- ASIS CCP, PMI, PMP, or other equivalent certifications desired
Who We Are
At Johnson Controls (NYSE:JCI), we are One Team working collaboratively to create purposeful solutions that make a difference in the world. We are a Fortune 500 company with more than 100,000 employees worldwide offering the world`s largest portfolio of building technology products, solutions and services. As a member of our Federal Systems team, your work matters. We value and recognize your contributions and want to help you succeed. We invest in our employees, provide opportunities for growth and advancement, and foster a culture of inclusion and respect.
To learn more about who we are and what we do, please check out our Take a Journey video.
Recently, Johnson Controls has been recognized by several organizations for leadership in Environment, Sustainability and Governance, as well as innovations in smart building platforms along with other awards:
- Named to FORTUNE's "Most Admired Companies" List
- Corporate Knights Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations in the World
- Named to ForbesNet Zero Leaderslist
- CDP 2023Climate Change 'A List'
- Ranked 67 on the Drucker Institute's list of best-managed companies in America
- ForbesBest Employers for Diversity
- NewsweekAmerica's Greatest Workplaces for Diversity
- Ethisphere 2024World's Most Ethical Companieslist for the 17th time
- NewsweekAmerica's Greatest Workplaces for Women in 2024
- Named to Newsweek America's Greatest Workplaces for Veterans 2024 / 2025listing
- Named toForbes America's Best Employers for Veterans 2024
- Named one of the top military friendly employers by military.com.
Johnson Controls is an equal employment opportunity 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. For more information, please view EEO is the Law. If you are an individual with a disability and you require an accommodation during the application process, please visit www.johnsoncontrols.com/careers
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