Sr. Manager, Capital Projects

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• Competitive salary
• Paid vacation/holidays/sick time
• Comprehensive benefits package including 401K, medical, dental, and vision care.
• On-the-job/cross-training opportunities
• Encouraging and collaborative team environment
• Dedication to safety through our Zero Harm policy

This role generally requires 1-2 days onsite per week.

As Sr. Manager, Capital Projects, you'll be the primary project manager responsible for building out our new advanced manufacturing space — from an empty site to a fully operational production facility. You'll own the schedule, budget, and execution of the entire capital project, coordinating everything from site selection and facility design through equipment procurement, installation, and commissioning. This is a high‑visibility role at the center of our expansion, where the decisions you drive will directly shape our manufacturing capacity and growth trajectory as part of the Johnson Controls family.

Beyond day‑to‑day project execution, you'll serve as a trusted advisor to leadership on the broader strategy behind our expansion. You'll help evaluate capital outlay decisions, weigh site and capacity trade‑offs, and translate business objectives into an actionable buildout plan. You'll work across engineering, operations, finance, and external partners to keep a complex, multi‑workstream program moving on time and on budget.

• Serve as the primary manager for the end‑to‑end buildout of a new manufacturing facility, owning overall schedule, budget, and execution.
• Support site selection by evaluating candidate locations against capacity, cost, infrastructure, and operational criteria.
• Coordinate the procurement of production machinery and capital equipment, including specification, vendor selection, long‑lead planning, delivery, installation, and commissioning.
• Develop and maintain the integrated project schedule and capital budget, tracking actuals against plan and forecasting to completion.
• Manage vendors and consultants across construction, facilities, utilities, and equipment installation — holding partners accountable to scope, cost, and timeline.
• Identify, communicate, and mitigate project risks; escalation decisions with clear options and recommendations.
• Provide regular, executive‑ready status reporting on progress, budget, risks, and key decisions.
• Advise leadership on higher‑level expansion strategy, capital allocation, and capacity planning trade‑offs.
• Coordinate cross‑functionally with engineering, operations, finance, EHS, and quality to ensure the facility meets production readiness requirements.
• Ensure the project meets applicable safety, regulatory, and permitting requirements.

You're an experienced project leader who thrives on turning ambitious plans into operating reality. You've stood up or expanded manufacturing space before, and you know how to juggle contractors, equipment vendors, permitting, long‑lead machine purchases, and a schedule without losing the thread on budget. You're equally comfortable in a hard‑hat walkthrough and in a leadership meeting defending a capital forecast. You bring structure to ambiguity.

When the path isn't fully defined, you build the plan, identify the constraints, and drive alignment across teams that don't report to you. You're a strong communicator who can distill a…