Engineering Lead - Grid Interactive Buildings

Country:

United States of America

Location:

CAG10: ALC HQ 1025 Cobb Place Blvd, Kennesaw, GA, 30144 USA

Carrier is the leading global provider of healthy, safe and sustainable building and cold chain solutions with a world-class, diverse workforce with business segments covering HVAC, refrigeration. We make modern life possible by delivering safer, smarter and more sustainable services that make a difference to people and our planet while revolutionizing industry trends. This is why we come to work every day. Join us and we can make a difference together.
 

About this role

As Associate Director, Commercial HVAC Grid-interactive Efficient Buildings (GEB’s), you will be responsible for driving the technology vision, roadmap and architecture for HVAC electrification and implementing building level energy management solutions and enterprise grid connectivity in Carrier’s Commercial HVAC Systems for the Americas region. You will collaborate with architects, system engineers, fellows and engineering project leaders to deliver solutions that meet customer and business needs. This role needs critical technology skills, systems thinking, Utility Market knowledge, Enterprise Cloud Platform experience, HVAC application knowledge, people skills and ability to collaborate and influence outcomes working across the Americas business and functions to drive accelerated solutions delivery for Carrier Commercial HVAC Business Unit as in  Carrier Building Technologies. The role will also provide program leadership working across various stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities:

Technology Leadership:  Build and implement systems concepts for GEB systems, understand interfaces, trade-offs within sub-systems and components and create a scalable, cost-efficient producible solution for North America commercial solutions build to scale and with a lifecycle view of customers in target segments and geographies.  Strategy: Owns development, implementation, and execution of short- and long-term strategy in line with Carrier’s GEB Long Term Plan (LRP), creating roadmaps aligned to business needs and platforming initiatives around GEB’s. Align with business needs, demonstrate financial and business acumen as technology roadmaps are created, maintained, and updated.

Business/Systems Leadership: Ability to collaborate with customers for POCs, product management, aligning GEB requirements, doing requirements-value tradeoffs with commercial teams, helping shape product roadmap and ability to align various global stakeholders for solution strategy, product creation and delivery. Execution: Systems leadership, program management experience, ability to take from requirements to concept to product solution delivery on-time, within budgets, meeting KPIs, providing direct and in-direct leadership working cross-functionally and ensuring the team (direct and in-direct) delivers a GRB solutions, which can be, but not limited to POC, Pilot, Full product launch and ongoing product increments using Agile methodologies and principles.

Leadership, Presentation & Communication Skills: Need to be able to influence at various levels of organization, including senior leadership and communicate effectively with clarity communicate complex issues to sr. leadership, technical and non-technical audience, able to shape and guide discussions to drive focus and execution clarity. Ability to implement effective operating cadence, performance measurements and report periodically. Strong presentation skills, globally inclusive with ability to work across US geographies and cultures, shape and deliver outcomes. Financial Ownership: Own NPD R&D budgets, project and program level estimation and financial ownership for GEB investments in the Carrier Commercial HVAC segment and delivery to commitments against plan Execution Excellence: Own and maintain strong say-do ratio, with bias towards exceeding expectations while delivering on commitments short and long term.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in an Engineering Discipline
• 10+ years of experience in leading systems engineering, new product development, and program execution, with effective communication, presentation, and influencing skills. Knowledge of building controls, Distributed Energy Resources (DER’s), Microgrids, Virtual Power Plants, Grid Interactive Platforms, building and device level connectivity, and energy management systems is needed.
• 5+ years of experience with knowledge of energy management systems in commercial heating and cooling space for commercial applications needed. Understanding of HVAC systems and sub-components required, including, but no