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Company Name: Sherwin-Williams
Company Description: The Sherwin-Williams Company delivers the best in paint and coatings products to the world. Every day, our more than 64,000 employees provide the energy and experience to build on our track record of success – enabling us to innovate and grow in new and exciting ways. With our people as the foundation of our Company, we offer industry-leading innovation, value-added service and expertise, and differentiated distribution to our growing base of professional, industrial, commercial and consumer customers.Sherwin-Williams has one of the industry’s most recognized portfolios of branded and private-label products. The Company’s Sherwin-Williams® branded products are sold exclusively through a chain of more than 5,000 company operated stores and facilities in the United States, Canada, the Caribbean and Latin America.Additional brands are sold through leading mass merchandisers, home centers, independent paint dealers, hardware stores, automotive retailers, and industrial distributors across North America and in parts of Europe, China, Australia and New Zealand. We also supply a broad range of highly engineered solutions for the construction, industrial, packaging and transportation markets in more than 130 countries around the world.
Business Industry: OEM/ Industrial Coatings
Job Title: Global Director, Engineering, Protective Coatings & Passive Fire Protection
Experience: Director
Job Function: Engineering
Employment Type: Full-time
Job Description: 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.
Engineering Strategy & Business Leadership 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.
Global Engineering Leadership 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.
Passive Fire Protection & Fire Engineering Leadership 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.
Specification Leadership 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.
Technology & Innovation Leadership 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.
Technical Governance, Quality & Risk Management Own the global technical governance framework for engineering services and fire engineering support. Establish standards for engineering methodologies, calculations, modeling assumptions, software validation, reporting, and approvals. Ensure engineering recommendations are technically sound, auditable, defensible, and compliant with applicable standards and regulations. Maintain globally consistent quality standards across engineering deliverables, technical reports, and customer-facing documentation.
Industry Leadership & External Engagement Serve as Sherwin-Williams’ primary technical ambassador to global engineering firms, fire consultants, industry associations, standards organizations, testing bodies, and approval authorities. Influence industry standards, testing methodologies, design practices, and future fire protection requirements. Lead participation in technical committees, standards organizations, and industry working groups.
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Travel Requirements: 50%Successful candidate will be required to sign an Employee Restrictive Covenant Agreement where permitted by law.
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