Senior Manager - Test Lab Operations at Johnson Controls, Inc in Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Job Description:

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What you will do

Directing Test Lab Operations for Engineering groups across the Enterprise.

How you will do it

• Drive increases in efficiency in lab testing using processes including uncertainty analyses, analytics, statistics, Continuous Improvement, and Six Sigma


• Lower the cost of testing by creating multifunctional and variable capacity facilities in Best Cost Countries that can be leveraged by different businesses in a coordinated manner


• Create an offensive lab patent application process that generates intellectual protection around products and processes including in testing, protocols, and knowledge retention; work with the legal department to optimize the strategy


• Manage the Capital Intensity of all lab sites and ensure alignment in protocols and testing procedures and review and align major capital request and Lab Management Systems (LMS)


• Maintain and drive adherence to relevant Regulatory, Standards and Certification bodies (UL certifications and regulations)


• Develop Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to track lab throughput changes, lab capital expenditures, and other relevant metrics – train and deliver KPI maintenance to local lab teams


• Leverage and develop global lab management expertise map of knowledge base and share best practices.


• Institute operators cross training and flexible resource plan(s) to support organization needs

Sustainability and Carbon Footprint

• Advise and participate in the committee for global low product emissions, quantitatively improving the environmental accreditations within the labs and the products tested year over year


• Drive improved capability of self-certifications and testing including the Energy Star efficiency rating and UL ratings, and ratings specific to applicable countries


• Improve industry performance accreditations in both the labs and in products tested in the labs, specifically with respect to environmental agreements or similiar agreements


• Interacting with Product Development teams and Directors of Products Development in different businesses to resolve schedule conflicts.

Business Continuity

• Standardize and unify test lab protocols across the company, including test request software, databases, and simulation tools, with a mission to allow for building and shipping test units and prototypes across continents to share testing capacity across Global Products


• Develop Business Continuity Capability by ensuring testing protocol alignment between product labs with global scope

What you will need

Requirements

• Bachelors of Science and Masters in Engineering required


• Specific Experience in Testing and Technical or relevant Lab work 


• 15 + years’ experience in the industry; experience as a Team Lead or Manager in a technical lab with direct reports

Preferred

• Phd preferred


• Psychometric and/or Metrology experience preferred

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