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Technical Team Lead roles qualify for EB-2 or EB-3 green card sponsorship through PERM labor certification, which requires your employer to document that no qualified U.S. worker is available before filing an I-140 immigrant petition on your behalf. Engineering-heavy leadership positions typically clear the specialty occupation and advanced-degree thresholds that define EB-2 eligibility.
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As a global leader in smart, healthy, and sustainable buildings, our mission is to reimagine the performance of buildings to serve people, places, and the planet. Join a winning team that enables you to build your best future!
Our teams are uniquely positioned to support a multitude of industries across the globe. You will have the opportunity to develop yourself through meaningful work projects and learning opportunities. We strive to provide our employees with an experience focused on supporting their physical, financial, and emotional wellbeing.
Become a member of the Johnson Controls family and thrive in an empowering company culture where your voice and ideas will be heard – your next great opportunity is just a few clicks away!
What we offer
- Competitive base salary and a comprehensive bonus program.
- Three weeks paid vacation in a calendar year/holidays/sick time/three PTO days in a calendar year.
- Comprehensive benefits package including 401K, medical, dental, and vision care - Available day one.
- Extensive product and on the job/cross training opportunities.
- Encouraging and collaborative team environment.
- Dedication to safety through our Zero Harm policy.
- Providing Scheduling and management support.
- JCI Employee discount programs (The Loop by Perk Spot).
Check us Out: A Day in Life at JCI as a HVAC Controls Systems Technician
What you do
Under general supervision oversees required day-to-day activities of field technician team and plans monthly technician routes. Analyzes team performance and recommends changes to ensure profitability, safety, and client satisfaction. Maintains customer satisfaction while balancing financial goals. Ensures safety compliance.
This position is On-site in Kenosha, Wisconsin
How will you do it
- Supervises and provides leadership for assigned Teams. Ensure developmental plans are in place.
- Leads the execution efforts of assigned business. Ensure consistency of delivery systems. Monitors and supervises the business plans.
- Coordinates the team’s work with sales to ensure all sales opportunities are supported, including linkage to installation opportunities.
- Raises potential market opportunities to the attention of the appropriate branch or region resource for strategic direction.
- Ensures that serviced account portfolios achieve growth, achieve proper profit levels and customer satisfaction.
- Recommends and supports staffing requirements for the assigned business.
- Serves as a communication channel to share the standard process strategies and results enables SSNA vision.
- Implements plans to comply, and monitors standards for HVAC operations. Audits the effectiveness of operations and makes changes to improve performance.
- Ensures that contractual obligations are completed, and customer satisfaction is achieved.
- Drives service and installation operational review meetings, reviewing bids and estimates for accuracy.
- Effectively applies branch workforce and management and deployment of overall resources.
- Analyzes operations processes and provides recommendations for improvements.
- Implement other managerial responsibilities, i.e., performance reviews and acquisitions consistent with established business strategy.
- Recruits, hires and retains operational staff. Prepares and delivers clear performance expectations, performance reviews, and development plans for direct reports teaming with the appropriate matrix functional manager. Ensures a consistent level of coaching, which includes monthly one on one(s), operational and financial reviews.
- Works with team leaders to ensure proper workforce and skill levels for the successful and profitable execution of the business.
- Performs other duties related to customer satisfaction, deployment of pivotal initiatives to teams, development and maintenance of team business plans and account management of service customers.
What we look for
Required
- A minimum of five (5) years of progressive operational experience in HVAC services.
- Three (3) years of experience in management role with responsibility for the productivity and development of others.
Preferred
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering or business or equivalent working experience.
- Johnson Controls Metasys experience.
- Eight (8) years’ experience in an operational HVAC role with leadership responsibilities.
- Six Sigma Green Belt.
HIRING SALARY RANGE: $76,000 - $92,000 (Salary to be determined by the education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities of the applicant, internal equity, and alignment with market data.) This role offers a competitive Bonus plan that will take into account individual, group, and corporate performance. This position includes a competitive benefits package.
For details, please visit the About Us tab on the Johnson Controls Careers site at About us - Johnson Controls Careers.
#HVACJobs #JohnsonControls #HVACSystems #HiringNow #SmartBuildings #SustainableBuildings #HVACControls #TeamLeadership
Build your best future with the Johnson Controls team!
As a global leader in smart, healthy, and sustainable buildings, our mission is to reimagine the performance of buildings to serve people, places, and the planet. Join a winning team that enables you to build your best future!
Our teams are uniquely positioned to support a multitude of industries across the globe. You will have the opportunity to develop yourself through meaningful work projects and learning opportunities. We strive to provide our employees with an experience focused on supporting their physical, financial, and emotional wellbeing.
Become a member of the Johnson Controls family and thrive in an empowering company culture where your voice and ideas will be heard – your next great opportunity is just a few clicks away!
What we offer
- Competitive base salary and a comprehensive bonus program.
- Three weeks paid vacation in a calendar year/holidays/sick time/three PTO days in a calendar year.
- Comprehensive benefits package including 401K, medical, dental, and vision care - Available day one.
- Extensive product and on the job/cross training opportunities.
- Encouraging and collaborative team environment.
- Dedication to safety through our Zero Harm policy.
- Providing Scheduling and management support.
- JCI Employee discount programs (The Loop by Perk Spot).
Check us Out: A Day in Life at JCI as a HVAC Controls Systems Technician
What you do
Under general supervision oversees required day-to-day activities of field technician team and plans monthly technician routes. Analyzes team performance and recommends changes to ensure profitability, safety, and client satisfaction. Maintains customer satisfaction while balancing financial goals. Ensures safety compliance.
This position is On-site in Kenosha, Wisconsin
How will you do it
- Supervises and provides leadership for assigned Teams. Ensure developmental plans are in place.
- Leads the execution efforts of assigned business. Ensure consistency of delivery systems. Monitors and supervises the business plans.
- Coordinates the team’s work with sales to ensure all sales opportunities are supported, including linkage to installation opportunities.
- Raises potential market opportunities to the attention of the appropriate branch or region resource for strategic direction.
- Ensures that serviced account portfolios achieve growth, achieve proper profit levels and customer satisfaction.
- Recommends and supports staffing requirements for the assigned business.
- Serves as a communication channel to share the standard process strategies and results enables SSNA vision.
- Implements plans to comply, and monitors standards for HVAC operations. Audits the effectiveness of operations and makes changes to improve performance.
- Ensures that contractual obligations are completed, and customer satisfaction is achieved.
- Drives service and installation operational review meetings, reviewing bids and estimates for accuracy.
- Effectively applies branch workforce and management and deployment of overall resources.
- Analyzes operations processes and provides recommendations for improvements.
- Implement other managerial responsibilities, i.e., performance reviews and acquisitions consistent with established business strategy.
- Recruits, hires and retains operational staff. Prepares and delivers clear performance expectations, performance reviews, and development plans for direct reports teaming with the appropriate matrix functional manager. Ensures a consistent level of coaching, which includes monthly one on one(s), operational and financial reviews.
- Works with team leaders to ensure proper workforce and skill levels for the successful and profitable execution of the business.
- Performs other duties related to customer satisfaction, deployment of pivotal initiatives to teams, development and maintenance of team business plans and account management of service customers.
What we look for
Required
- A minimum of five (5) years of progressive operational experience in HVAC services.
- Three (3) years of experience in management role with responsibility for the productivity and development of others.
Preferred
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering or business or equivalent working experience.
- Johnson Controls Metasys experience.
- Eight (8) years’ experience in an operational HVAC role with leadership responsibilities.
- Six Sigma Green Belt.
HIRING SALARY RANGE: $76,000 - $92,000 (Salary to be determined by the education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities of the applicant, internal equity, and alignment with market data.) This role offers a competitive Bonus plan that will take into account individual, group, and corporate performance. This position includes a competitive benefits package.
For details, please visit the About Us tab on the Johnson Controls Careers site at About us - Johnson Controls Careers.
#HVACJobs #JohnsonControls #HVACSystems #HiringNow #SmartBuildings #SustainableBuildings #HVACControls #TeamLeadership
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding Green Card Sponsorship in Technical Team Lead
Document your technical leadership scope precisely
PERM job descriptions must reflect what you actually do daily. Capture team size, technologies owned, architectural decisions made, and budget authority so the certified job description supports an EB-2 advanced-degree or specialized-skills classification without an RFE.
Target employers with active PERM filing history
Search OFLC disclosure data for companies that have filed PERM applications for software engineering or team lead job titles in the past two years. Prior filings signal an established sponsorship pipeline and HR teams already familiar with DOL recruitment requirements.
Use Migrate Mate to filter sponsoring employers by role
Migrate Mate surfaces Technical Team Lead positions at companies with verified green card sponsorship history, so you spend your search time on employers already willing to run PERM, not on roles where sponsorship is uncertain.
Clarify EB-2 versus EB-3 classification before accepting an offer
Ask your prospective employer which preference category they intend to file under. If your role requires a master's degree or you can document progressive technical leadership, EB-2 avoids the longer backlogs that affect EB-3 for certain countries of birth.
Prepare credential evaluations for non-U.S. degrees early
USCIS requires that foreign degrees be evaluated for U.S. equivalency before I-140 adjudication. A three-year bachelor's degree or a degree from a non-English-language institution often needs a NACES-member evaluation to satisfy the advanced-degree requirement for EB-2.
Understand the PERM recruitment window before your start date
DOL requires employers to complete a 30-day job-posting period and document failed recruitment before filing PERM. Coordinate with your employer so that recruitment testing starts well before your anticipated I-140 filing date, since the certified PERM application expires 180 days after approval.
Green Card Technical Team Lead: Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Technical Team Lead role typically qualify for EB-2 or EB-3 sponsorship?
Most Technical Team Lead positions qualify for EB-2 when the role requires a master's degree or equivalent in a technical field, or when you can show progressively complex engineering leadership. Roles with a bachelor's degree requirement and no graduate credential requirement typically land in EB-3 skilled worker. The employer's PERM job description ultimately controls which category USCIS adjudicates, so the classification discussion should happen before the offer letter is signed.
How does the green card PERM process differ from H-1B sponsorship for this role?
H-1B visa is a temporary status tied to a specific employer with an annual lottery and a six-year cap. PERM green card sponsorship is a permanent immigrant visa process with no lottery, no six-year limit, and no cap at the EB-3 level for most countries of birth. The tradeoff is timeline: PERM labor certification, I-140 approval, and adjustment of status together typically take two to four years for candidates from low-backlog countries, compared to H-1B processing measured in months.
Which employers regularly sponsor Technical Team Leads for green cards?
Technology companies, defense contractors, financial services firms, and large healthcare IT organizations file the most PERM applications for team lead and engineering management titles. You can verify a company's filing history by searching OFLC disclosure data filtered by job title and employer name. Migrate Mate aggregates this data so you can identify active sponsors without downloading raw DOL files.
Can I switch employers after my I-140 is approved?
Yes. Once your I-140 has been approved for 180 days and your priority date is within six months of becoming current, AC21 portability lets you change to a similar-occupancy role without losing your priority date. Technical Team Lead positions port well to comparable engineering leadership roles, but you should confirm the new job's duties genuinely match the approved petition before resigning.
How do I find Technical Team Lead jobs that include green card sponsorship?
Standard job boards don't filter by green card sponsorship willingness, so most postings require follow-up calls to confirm PERM eligibility. Migrate Mate is built specifically to surface roles at employers with documented green card filing history, letting you filter by job title and visa type before you apply, which saves time and avoids offers that stall at the sponsorship conversation.