Sr. Manager, Maintenance, Reliability Automation

Senior Manager, Maintenance, Reliability & Automation

Location: Lubbock, Texas

Business: Johnson Controls | Fire Solutions North America

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.

Johnson Controls is seeking an exceptional Senior Manager, Maintenance, Reliability & Automation to lead the transformation of our maintenance organization and serve as a key architect in the evolution of our Lubbock manufacturing facility toward an Industry 4.0-enabled future.

This is not a traditional maintenance leadership role.

The successful candidate will be responsible for building a world-class reliability organization that moves beyond reactive maintenance and supports the deployment of advanced automation, connected manufacturing technologies, predictive maintenance systems, and future autonomous manufacturing capabilities.

As a key member of the plant leadership team, this leader will partner closely with Manufacturing Engineering, Operations, Quality, Supply Chain, EHS, and external technology partners to develop the systems, infrastructure, talent, and reliability strategies required to support long-term growth and manufacturing modernization.

This role will play a critical leadership position in shaping the future manufacturing footprint by influencing equipment design, capital investment decisions, maintainability standards, workforce development strategies, and digital transformation initiatives.

• Develop and execute a comprehensive reliability-centered maintenance strategy focused on improving uptime, equipment performance, and manufacturing throughput.
• Transform the maintenance organization from reactive firefighting to a proactive, data-driven reliability model.
• Lead deployment and sustainability of Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) across manufacturing operations.
• Establish asset criticality models, reliability engineering practices, preventive maintenance programs, and predictive maintenance systems.
• Implement advanced root cause problem-solving methodologies, including RCA, 5 Why, Pareto analysis, and failure mode analysis.
• Drive measurable improvements in equipment availability, MTBF, MTTR, maintenance cost, and overall equipment effectiveness (OEE).

• Lead the integration of connected factory technologies that provide real-time equipment performance visibility and predictive maintenance capabilities.
• Evaluate and deploy IIoT, machine monitoring, condition-based monitoring, and AI-enabled maintenance solutions.
• Develop digital maintenance roadmaps that support long-term automation objectives.
• Implement systems that leverage equipment health data to improve planning, diagnostics, and resource utilization.
• Serve as a champion for technology adoption and the modernization of maintenance systems.

• Partner closely with Manufacturing Engineering to support automation initiatives and future manufacturing capabilities.
• Influence equipment procurement standards with a focus on reliability, maintainability, lifecycle cost, and operational performance.
• Support the development and execution of multi-year capital investment plans.
• Lead commissioning, startup, and reliability readiness activities for new equipment and automation systems.
• Develop long-term equipment lifecycle management strategies that proactively address obsolescence, capacity requirements, and operational risk.

• Build a high-performing maintenance organization capable of supporting increasingly complex manufacturing technologies.
• Develop maintenance technicians, supervisors, planners, and reliability engineers through structured coaching and succession planning.
• Establish partnerships with technical colleges, trade schools, and workforce development organizations to create a sustainable pipeline…