Building Controls Major Projects Executive

About this role

Build your best future with the Johnson Controls team As a global leader in smart, healthy and sustainable buildings, our mission is to reimagine the performance of buildings to serve people, places and the planet.  Join a winning team that enables you to build your best future! Our teams are uniquely positioned to support a multitude of industries across the globe. You will have the opportunity to develop yourself through meaningful work projects and learning opportunities. We strive to provide our employees with an experience focused on supporting their physical, financial, and emotional wellbeing. Become a member of the Johnson Controls family and thrive in an empowering company culture where your voice and ideas will be heard – your next great opportunity is just a few clicks away!

What we offer • Competitive salary 

• Relocation assistance or sign-on bonus (as applicable)

• Company vehicle (as applicable)

• Paid vacation/holidays/sick time - 15 days of vacation first year

• Comprehensive benefits package including 401K, medical, dental, and vision care - Available day one.

• Extensive product and on the job/cross training opportunities

• With outstanding resources Encouraging and collaborative team environment Dedication to safety through our Zero Harm policy

• Career advancement opportunities

What You Will Do The Project Executive (PE) is a senior Major Projects leader responsible for the successful delivery, governance, and financial performance of Johnson Controls' most strategic and complex projects, customer portfolios, and growth initiatives. PE provides executive leadership across the full project lifecycle, from pursuit support and project kickoff through execution, transition, closeout, recovery, and customer expansion. Day-to-day execution will typically remain with Project Managers. However, the PX may directly lead a project, portfolio, transition, or recovery when scale, complexity, strategic importance, staffing needs, or business risk warrant executive-level delivery leadership. The PE partners closely with Area Vice Presidents, Market General Managers, Major Projects Installation Managers, Sales Leaders, Project Managers, Branch Installation Managers, functional teams, and customers to align business strategy, delivery execution, and customer commitments.

How You Will Do It Executive Project Leadership • Provide executive leadership for assigned major projects, customer portfolios, strategic sites, and growth markets.

• Serve as a senior point of accountability for project outcomes, customer confidence, risk visibility, margin protection, and escalation management.

• Lead executive customer meetings, internal leadership reviews, and resolution of significant delivery, commercial, contractual, or relationship issues.

• Align Area leadership, project teams, sales, and support functions around clear project priorities, decisions, and recovery actions.

Governance and Delivery Oversight • Establish the governance structure, review cadence, decision rights, reporting expectations, and escalation paths appropriate for each assigned project or portfolio.

• Lead project health reviews, Estimate-at-Completion (EAC) challenges, risk assessments, schedule reviews, and recovery planning.

• Challenge assumptions related to forecasts, staffing, subcontracting, procurement, engineering, commissioning, schedule performance, and customer commitments.

• Ensure project teams consistently apply Major Projects standards, risk registers, financial controls, change management practices, and recovery discipline.

• Create timely visibility for leadership on issues that may affect margin, cash, schedule, safety, customer confidence, or company reputation.

Direct Project and Recovery Leadership Based on business need, the Project Executive may: • Directly manage a large, complex, high-risk, or strategically important projects or portfolios.

• Serve as the delivery executive over an Area Project Manager while retaining hands-on accountability for critical project outcomes.

• Lead distressed project recovery, including stabilization, recovery planning, customer alignment, accountability, and executive reporting.

• Assume temporary project leadership during staffing gaps, organizational transitions, or other critical delivery periods.

• Provide focused intervention on commercial strategy, customer issues, schedule recovery, subcontractor performance, or cross-functional execution.

Project Lifecycle Support • Support pursuit strategy, pre-bid risk assessment, execution planning, value engineering, partner selection, and alignment of sales commitments with delivery capability.

• Support or lead project kickoff activities to establish governance, team roles, customer communication protocols, project controls, risk plans, and success criteria.

• Guide critical transitions between sales, project delivery, field execution, commissioning, service, and customer operations.

• Support project closeout, final commercial resolution, customer acceptance, lessons learned, service handoff, and follow-on opportunity planning.

• Engage at targeted points in the lifecycle when executive leadership can materially improve delivery outcomes or reduce business risk.

Financial and Commercial Leadership • Protect project profitability through active oversight of forecasts, cost performance, billing, collections, cash flow, procurement, change orders, and contingency management.

• Review contract terms and assess exposure associated with liquidated damages, performance guarantees, fixed-price commitments, aggressive milestones, owner-favorable terms, and claims potential.

• Drive forecast accuracy and ensure recovery plans contain clear owners, dates, financial impacts, and measurable outcomes.

• Support negotiation and resolution of significant change orders, claims, disputes, and commercial settlements.

• Maintain an effective balance between customer satisfaction, contractual obligation

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