Vice President, Environmental Health & Safety Global Supply Chain; Remote

Position: Vice President, Environmental Health & Safety Global Supply Chain (Remote)
Vice President, Global Supply Chain Environmental Health & Science (Remote)
ROLE OVERVIEW The Vice President, Global Supply Chain EHS is the accountable EHS leader for Johnson Controls' global manufacturing and supply-chain network: factories, warehouses, distribution centers, logistics activities and related locations worldwide. The role reports to the Vice President, Global EHS, who sets enterprise EHS direction, and translates that direction into the framework, standards, expertise, assurance and performance system for the network.

It leads through regional and site EHS teams and partners with Global Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Operations, Engineering, Quality, Human Resources, Sustainability and regional leadership.

The role delivers results by making SIF (serious injury and fatality) prevention the primary safety priority: identifying high-energy and high-consequence exposures, defining and verifying critical controls where the work happens, and prioritizing elimination and engineering controls over administrative ones. It owns the EHS management system, risk-based assurance and performance framework for the network, and embeds EHS into capital deployment, facility design, equipment, acquisitions and network changes.

EHS owns the system; operational leaders own the performance. The role is deliberately not accountable for day-to-day site EHS performance, which sits with plant, distribution and supply-chain leaders, and it holds the influence and escalation access to challenge unacceptable risk.

KEY

ACCOUNTABILITIES A) SIF prevention and critical-risk control

Make SIF prevention the primary safety priority across the network. Establish consistent method to identify high-energy and high-consequence exposures in routine, non-routine, maintenance, contractor and change-related work; define critical controls, accountable owners and verification requirements; and ensure significant incidents, control failures and high-potential events receive rigorous investigation, leadership review and network-wide learning.

B) Strategy, standards and governance

Develop and execute a multi-year EHS strategy for manufacturing and supply-chain operations, aligned with the Vice President, Global EHS and the operating plan. Translate it into standards, minimum requirements, metrics, investment priorities and roadmaps, and define decision making between enterprise EHS, this function, regional and site EHS teams and operational leadership.

C) Critical occupational exposures

Set risk-reduction standards and execution requirements for machine safeguarding, crane, hoisting and rigging, lockout/tagout and hazardous energy, electrical safety, powered industrial vehicles and pedestrian interaction, material handling and ergonomics, work at height, confined spaces, contractor safety, industrial hygiene, warehouse and logistics safety, and fire, life safety and emergency response.

D) Leadership accountability and safety culture

Set clear EHS expectations from executives to frontline supervisors, contractors and EHS professionals. Build frontline capability to recognize hazards and verify critical controls before work proceeds, create real employee participation and stop-work authority, and assess leaders on control quality and responsiveness to risk, not outcomes alone.

E) Environmental leadership

Establish environmental standards and governance for the network, and ensure effective management of air emissions, wastewater, waste, hazardous materials, spills and permits. Integrate environmental requirements into operations, capital projects, acquisitions and network decisions, in partnership with Sustainability, Engineering and Supply Chain.

F) Management system, compliance and assurance

Implement and continuously improve a global EHS management system for the network, with governance that provides reasonable assurance of compliance. Run a risk-based audit and assurance program focused on SIF exposures, critical-control effectiveness and high-risk facilities; verify corrective actions before closure; and coordinate significant regulatory matters with Legal and enterprise EHS leadership. Establish network compliance calendar to ensure adequate oversight, control and performance.

G) Capital projects, equipment and network changes

Embed EHS requirements and design principles into capital planning, equipment procurement, facility design, automation, construction, expansions and relocations, with design reviews and verification before operational handover.…