Program Engineer

About the Role: As our Program Engineer, you’ll play a critical role in supporting the successful delivery of projects across a specific customer portfolio with diverse building and project types. You’ll act as a technical and program-level integrator—bridging Engineering Delivery, Program Management, Controls, Applications, and Solutions and Growth teams to ensure alignment from early opportunity through execution and go-live. This role is highly cross-functional and requires strong functional design expertise, commercial awareness, and the ability to proactively identify risks, align stakeholders, and drive clarity across project phases. You will provide engineering oversight across multiple concurrent precontract opportunities and active projects, helping ensure solutions are well-defined, executable, and aligned to DCS standards and customer expectations. Sound like you? Read on. In this role, you will: Serve as a technical and program partner across projects and opportunities within a vertical ensuring alignment, visibility, and execution readiness across engineering and program teams. Your key accountabilities and responsibilities will include: Key Accountabilities • Customer and Employee Experience: Accountable for leading by example in delivering exceptional employee and customer experiences, and modeling DCS values and cultural behaviors. • Program Alignment & Visibility: Accountable for maintaining visibility across all active and upcoming projects, ensuring alignment between engineering, program management, and customer expectations. • Engineering Quality & Design Integrity: Accountable for ensuring functional designs are robust, aligned to best practices, and executable across engineering and controls. • Pre-Execution Planning & Estimation Accuracy: Accountable for supporting accurate engineering estimates including schedules, resource skillset, and scope definitions during proposal and front-end phases. • Risk Identification & Mitigation: Accountable for proactively identifying design, schedule, and vendor risks and ensuring they are communicated and addressed early. • Cross-Functional Coordination: Accountable for enabling effective collaboration between Mechanical Engineering, Project Engineering, Controls, PMs, and external partners. Key Responsibilities • Maintain active participation in heartbeat meetings to track project updates, risks, and resourcing needs. • Coordinate across PMs, Controls, and Engineering teams to align priorities for upcoming and active projects. • Participate in coordination meetings and forecast reviews to ensure alignment on workload and resource planning. • Own the program lessons-learned process, identifying recurring engineering, vendor, and execution risks and driving improvements that strengthen future project performance. • Identify future resource constraints and communicate staffing, skill, and capacity risks to leadership. • Evaluate and support increase of capability and capacity within engineering teams to support growth within customer profile projections. • Regularly review program dashboards, trackers, and reporting tools that provide visibility into project status, engineering demand, risks, customer requirements, and execution readiness. • Mentor engineers and project team members on customer standards, program expectations, and lessons learned. • Share customer, program, and engineering knowledge across project teams to improve consistency and execution quality. • Facilitate feedback and growth of program team including program manager, sales, and program engineers. • Advise sales, applications, and program management on pursuit strategy, solution fit, execution risk, and customer priorities based on program experience and historical performance. •