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Honeywell

Diversified industrial conglomerate: aerospace, automation, safety

Senior Director Program Management

Program ManagementPosted on Nov 12
Full-timeAtlanta, GA, USANo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

  • At least 20 years of project or program delivery experience in construction, engineering, data centers, or mission-critical infrastructure, including senior leadership responsibility appropriate to a global director role.
  • Significant experience delivering large-scale projects in the $10 million to $100 million range and above.
  • Demonstrated success leading complex, multidisciplinary teams across multiple projects, regions, and functions.
  • Experience delivering for hyperscale, colocation, enterprise, AI data center, or similarly demanding mission-critical customers.
  • Strong knowledge of construction contracts, procurement strategies, commercial risk, financial forecasting, change management, and claims.
  • Experience establishing global or regional governance, standards, repeatable delivery methods, and common reporting processes.
  • Working knowledge of integrated power, cooling, BMS/DDC, EPMS/PMS, fire, security, software, OT cybersecurity, commissioning, and integrated systems testing requirements.
  • Ability to travel globally as required.
  • A bachelor's degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant experience.

Responsibilities

  • Provide executive leadership across multiple hyperscale, colocation, enterprise, and AI data center projects and programs spanning global regions.
  • Develop and implement global delivery strategies aligned with business objectives, customer commitments, growth priorities, delivery capacity, and lifecycle-service opportunities.
  • Establish portfolio governance, decision rights, escalation paths, stage gates, reporting structures, and performance metrics.
  • Lead monthly Project Monthly Reviews covering safety, milestones, financial performance, cost to complete, cash, risks, changes, resources, quality, commissioning, and service readiness.
  • Maintain an integrated view of portfolio demand, resource capacity, critical dependencies, and regional execution risk, and take corrective and recovery actions.
  • Align global account priorities with regional operations and functional leaders, establishing accountability for global oversight and local execution.
  • Lead end-to-end delivery of integrated solutions across power and energy, cooling and environmental systems, automation and controls, safety, security, software, asset performance, and OT cybersecurity.
  • Ensure products and systems form a coherent operational architecture with defined boundaries, interfaces, responsibilities, and acceptance criteria.
  • Coordinate utility and grid interfaces; onsite generation; electrical distribution; microgrids; battery energy storage systems; EPMS/PMS; energy and demand management; BMS/DDC; HVAC and cooling controls; fire and life safety; physical security; and operational software.
  • Translate approved reference architectures, Basis of Design documents, master specifications, and customer standards into executable scope, schedule, procurement, installation, testing, and handover plans.
  • Partner with Solutions Architecture and Application Engineering to resolve design gaps, interface issues, interoperability risks, and project-specific deviations before they affect field execution.
  • Support AI and high-density computing deployments, including campus-scale power, grid constraints, onsite generation, liquid-cooling interfaces, and resilient operations.
  • Own the global standardization roadmap for data center project delivery, with defined priorities, accountable owners, adoption milestones, and measurable outcomes.
  • Establish repeatable delivery processes from opportunity qualification and estimation through design, procurement, installation, commissioning, closeout, and service handover.
  • Deploy common project schedules, work breakdown structures, stage-gate reviews, risk registers, change-control methods, quality plans, commissioning templates, dashboards, and key performance indicator definitions.
  • Align estimating templates, labor assumptions, procurement strategies, approval workflows, and execution playbooks while accommodating local rates, currencies, contracts, codes, and regulations.
  • Establish a controlled process to review, approve, document, and communicate deviations from global standards.
  • Drive digital engineering, standardized information management, reuse of approved deliverables, lessons learned, and automation to improve productivity, quality, and cycle time.
  • Oversee scope, budget, schedule, quality, resources, and delivery commitments across the global portfolio, including projects in the $10 million to $100 million range and above.
  • Partner with sales, estimating, architecture, engineering, sourcing, and regional operations to validate scope, cost, schedule, resources, technical assumptions, warranty obligations, and commercial risks before commitment.
  • Monitor revenue, profitability, contingency, cash flow, working capital, cost to complete, and forecast accuracy, and intervene early when performance is at risk.
  • Apply contract management, change control, claims management, and commercial recovery to protect customer relationships and contractual position.
  • Maintain integrated schedules and recovery plans for at-risk projects, with clear ownership, decision dates, and escalation.
  • Connect project decisions with lifecycle services, software adoption, warranty transition, and long-term customer value.
  • Act as the senior delivery point of contact for strategic customers and executive stakeholders in partnership with global account leaders.
  • Lead steering committees, portfolio reviews, and escalation discussions, communicating commitments, progress, risks, trade-offs, and decisions required.
  • Build relationships with EPCs, consulting engineers, general contractors, OEMs, suppliers, systems integrators, technology partners, and regulatory authorities.
  • Manage complex cross-organizational interfaces and resolve escalated technical, delivery, and commercial issues without compromising safety, quality, or contractual discipline.
  • Ensure a consistent customer experience across regions and delivery models while respecting local execution requirements.
  • Champion health, safety, and environmental excellence across teams, contractors, suppliers, and project partners.
  • Ensure compliance with applicable global and local data center, electrical, mechanical, automation, cybersecurity, fire, security, and environmental requirements.
  • Lead portfolio-level risk identification, mitigation, issue resolution, and escalation with accountable owners and closure dates.
  • Establish quality assurance and quality control for design, procurement, installation, programming, integration, commissioning, and handover.
  • Ensure cybersecurity, interoperability, resilience, maintainability, and operational-readiness requirements are addressed in design and execution reviews.
  • Use acceptance evidence, defect trends, root-cause analysis, and lessons learned to reduce rework and strengthen repeatability.
  • Establish commissioning strategies early, including system boundaries, prerequisites, acceptance criteria, test scripts, witness requirements, and issue-resolution processes.
  • Ensure successful functional performance testing and integrated systems testing across power, cooling, controls, fire, security, software, and OT interfaces.
  • Standardize commissioning records, technical documentation, as-built deliverables, system backups, training, warranty responsibilities, and open-item management.
  • Partner with customer operations and service leaders to confirm operational readiness and execute a structured project-to-service transition.
  • Maintain a clear distinction among remaining project obligations, warranty support, software responsibilities, and service responsibilities.
  • Track closeout completeness, customer acceptance, service conversion, and post-occupancy performance.
  • Lead and mentor regional project directors, program managers, project managers, engineers, commissioning leaders, technician leads, and supporting functions within a matrix organization.
  • Develop multidisciplinary teams through clear objectives, coaching, performance management, succession planning, and leadership development.
  • Establish competency models, onboarding, and training across project controls, commercial management, integrated solutions, commissioning, and customer requirements.
  • Align workforce and partner capacity to the global pipeline and deploy qualified resources across regions and programs.
  • Promote systems thinking, engineering and project-management rigor, customer focus, knowledge sharing, speed, and accountability.

Desired Qualifications

  • Leadership experience in a dedicated data center, mission-critical infrastructure, EPC, technology, or global project delivery organization.
  • Experience across multiple layers of the data center infrastructure stack rather than a single product or technology discipline.
  • Experience delivering integrated solutions with major EPCs, consulting engineers, general contractors, OEMs, and systems integrators.
  • Knowledge of AI-factory and high-density data center requirements, campus-scale power, onsite generation, microgrids, battery energy storage systems, and liquid cooling.
  • Experience with digital engineering, building information modeling, digital twins, model-based delivery, integrated schedule management, and project analytics.
  • Knowledge of applicable global data center, electrical, mechanical, automation, cybersecurity, fire, safety, and environmental standards.
  • Track record of developing project leaders, building global capability, and improving execution through standardization and lessons learned.
  • A master's degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Business Administration, or a related field.
  • PMP, PE, Chartered Engineer, or relevant professional or industry certification.

About the Company

Honeywell

Diversified industrial conglomerate: aerospace, automation, safety

Honeywell operates in four main areas—aerospace, building automation, performance materials and technologies (PMT), and safety and productivity solutions (SPS). Its products couple hardware, software, and services, delivering integrated solutions for customers in design, manufacturing, installation, maintenance, and analytics. It stands out through a broad, diversified portfolio, a global presence, and the ability to connect multiple stages of the product lifecycle into one ecosystem. The company aims to help customers operate more reliably and efficiently, reduce costs and environmental impact, and grow recurring revenue by offering solutions, services, and digital platforms that link its hardware and software offerings.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Charlotte, NC
Founded
1906

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