Advanced Manufacturing Engineer Strategic Program Leader, Residential HVAC

Location: Northern

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** Advanced Manufacturing Engineering, Strategic Program Leader for Residential HVAC
** is a critical, high-impact leadership role within the Advanced Manufacturing Engineering team. This position carries a unique, dual-focus mandate: actively driving strategic manufacturing network design, while orchestrating the end-to-end execution of complex footprint transformations and regional capital programs.

The ideal candidate is a blend of a strategic operations thinker and a disciplined program integrator. You will partner closely with Business Units (BUs), Plant Leadership, and senior cross-functional executives to design optimized manufacturing networks and lead the implementation of multi-phase programs comprising multiple highly interdependent sub-projects. In this role, you will translate long-term operations strategy into structured, phased execution plans that ensure operational excellence, capital efficiency, and long-term business resilience across our manufacturing sites.

Must be able to travel up to 30%.
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* What you will do:

**** Strategic Footprint & Strategy Formulation
** Lead and contribute to the analytical framing, design, and continuous optimization of the Residential SBU manufacturing footprint. Rather than reacting to localized capacity gaps, this role proactively evaluates the 5-to-10-year network architecture (focused vs. flexible plants, centralized hubs vs. regional final assembly) to support business growth and margin objectives.
** Multi-Site Program Integration & Execution
** Serve as the single owner of the integration through-line for complex capital programs, facility start-ups, brownfield expansions, site consolidations, and strategic work transfers. You will ensure that these intricate transitions are executed seamlessly, mitigating risk and maintaining continuity for customer commitments.
** Operations Strategy & Network Optimization**
* ** Strategic Footprint Planning:
** Drive cross-functional teams through structured footprint and network evaluation processes, aligning corporate strategy with regional operational realities.
* ** Demand Scenario Modeling:
** Partner with Commercial teams to align capacity plans with market demand forecasts, utilizing scenario modeling to ensure network assets are designed to withstand market volatility rather than single-point forecasts.
* ** Network Design Principles:
** Help establish structural make-vs-buy, vertical integration, and factory specialization strategies. Balance the operational and financial trade-offs of centralized component manufacturing against regional localized final assembly.
* ** Business Case Development:
** Collaborate with Finance partners to co-author robust business cases, evaluating capital investment options against status-quo operational baselines while clearly quantifying strategic benefits (such as service-lead compression and supply-chain resilience).
* ** Geographic & Site Selection Analysis:
** Evaluate candidate regions and sites against critical external and internal criteria, including industrial policies, trade/tariff exposure, local labor depth, supplier ecosystem density, energy infrastructure, and local permitting timelines.
** Program Management, Governance & Integration**
* ** Orchestrate Multi-Phase Programs:
** Provide master integration, schedule coordination, and financial oversight for complex footprint programs containing multiple highly interdependent, concurrent sub-projects (e.g., equipment relocation, regulatory approvals, site buildouts).
* ** Enforce Phase-Gate Governance:
** Implement disciplined phase-gate methodologies to sequence program milestones, managing capital expenditure risk and establishing clear demand/utilization triggers before releasing subsequent phases of capital.
* ** Establish Decision Governance:
** Define and align clear program governance and program team operating structures among Business Unit leaders, corporate functions, and plant management to facilitate rapid, structured decision-making.
* ** Influence Senior Leadership:
** Translate complex, technical, and financial analyses into highly polished executive proposals. Pre-wire key stakeholders and present strategic options, financials, and phased roadmaps to Executive-level audiences.
* ** Drive Change Enablement & Workforce Readiness:
** Support cross-functional change management efforts during operational transitions, modernization programs, and technology integrations. Apply high organizational empathy to ensure clear communication,…