Global Director, Engineering, Protective Coatings & Passive Fire Protection
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The Global Director, Engineering: Protective Coatings & Passive Fire Protection leads Sherwin-Williams’ global engineering capability and strategy across Protective Coatings and Passive Fire Protection. The role oversees engineering teams, technical governance, fire engineering, testing strategies, tools, and specification support across global markets. It partners with commercial, marketing, R&D, product management, technical service, and operations teams, and can be worked remotely.
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The Global Director, Engineering: Protective Coatings & Passive Fire Protection is a senior leadership role responsible for defining and advancing Sherwin-Williams' global engineering capability for Protective & Marine Coatings. The role leads engineering strategy, passive fire protection, technical governance, project design integration, specification influence, and customer-facing engineering support across global markets. Passive Fire Protection is a critical pillar, including structural fire engineering, fire engineering judgments, fire testing strategy, engineering tools, and global technical standards. The Director partners closely with Commercial, Marketing, R&D, Technical Service, Product Management, and Operations to position Sherwin-Williams as a trusted engineering and technology leader. This position can be worked remotely. Job duties include contact with other employees and access confidential and proprietary information and/or other items of value, and such access may be supervised or unsupervised. The Company therefore has determined that a review of criminal history is necessary to protect the business and its operations and reputation and is necessary to protect the safety of the Company's staff, employees, and business relationships. - Own the global engineering strategy for Protective Coatings and Passive Fire Protection. - Define the roadmap for engineering services, fire engineering, technical support, digital engineering tools, and capability development. - Align resources and investments with business priorities, customer needs, market opportunities, and profitable growth objectives. - Drive engineering influence that improves specification success, project conversion, and customer value. {=html} - Lead and develop a global engineering organization supporting the Americas, EMEAI, and APAC. - Provide direct leadership for the Global Fire Estimation & Engineering Team. - Establish the operating model, service standards, prioritization process, and resource deployment approach. - Build a high-performance culture focused on technical excellence, accountability, collaboration, innovation, and customer success. {=html} - Own global PFP engineering capability, including methodologies, standards, testing strategies, technical governance, and engineering tools. - Lead application of structural fire engineering principles, including fire engineering judgments, heat transfer analysis, finite element modeling, and performance-based fire design. - Serve as final technical authority for complex fire engineering evaluations, engineering methodologies, and design approaches. - Define best practices for intumescent coatings and PFP systems across commercial, infrastructure, industrial, and energy applications. {=html} - Lead the engineering contribution to global specification strategy and project pull-through. - Partner with Commercial and Marketing to position Sherwin-Williams as a trusted engineering and technical solutions partner. - Support regional commercial teams in securing major projects through differentiated engineering expertise and technical value propositions. - Translate complex technical solutions into business value for customers, specifiers, and stakeholders. {=html} - Partner with R&D, Product Management, and Technical Service to define future technology and innovation priorities. - Establish the global engineering technology roadmap for PFP and Protective Coatings solutions. - Guide global fire testing, system validation, and performance verification strategies. - Identify unmet customer needs and translate them into innovation opportunities and technical development programs. Own the global technical governance framework
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- Ohio median$166–298K/yr28 salary ranges
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- Olive Jobs lists 51 open Engineering Leadership jobs in Ohio and 1,783 across the US. 6% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
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- Education
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