Manager, Supply Chain Risk Engineering

Johnson Controls is creating a new Supply Chain Risk Engineering team within Chillers North America, and is seeking a hands-on Manager to build and lead it.

The team's mission is to establish qualified alternate sources for existing chiller components whose supply chains are strained, so that a single supplier disruption does not stop a factory or a customer shipment. The team also responds to sudden, ad hoc material shortages, rapidly identifying and qualifying alternatives to keep production running.

The Manager leads a small working team of electrical and mechanical engineers and is personally engaged in the technical work. The role partners with Procurement and the chiller product teams to identify strained component categories, quantify the product demand behind them, plan and execute component qualifications, and get qualified alternates into production — either by implementing them directly or by handing them off to the product team for implementation.

The role works across all of Chiller Engineering: the individual product groups and the technology teams. Typical component categories include fans, pump kits, circuit breakers and electrical components, brazed plate heat exchangers, and similar purchased parts.

• Partner with Procurement and Supply Chain to identify component categories with supply risk — single or sole sources, long or unstable lead times, supplier capacity limits, quality escapes, geopolitical or tariff exposure, and pending obsolescence.
• Build and maintain a prioritized risk register of strained categories, ranked by supply risk and business impact.
• Bring the engineering perspective to Procurement's supplier strategy, including technical capability of candidate suppliers and engineering effort required to qualify them.

• Work with the product teams to map where each strained component is used across the chiller portfolio — models, configurations, options, and factories. Translate those application demands into a clear technical specification that an alternate component must meet.

• Author a formal qualification plan for each alternate component class, defining the requirements, analysis, test, documentation, and approvals needed to release it for use.

• Lead execution of qualification plans: engineering analysis, supplier technical reviews, sample and first article evaluation, bench and lab testing, and in-unit testing at the JADEC test lab or factory.
• Coordinate with Supplier Quality and Procurement on supplier PPAP, first article inspection, and supplier quality requirements.
• Document results in a qualification report and disposition each alternate as approved, approved with conditions, or rejected.
• Deliver alternates in a ready-to-use state: part numbers created, drawings and specifications released, and approved manufacturer information current in SAP and PLM.

• Work with each product team to decide the implementation path for a qualified alternate.
• Where it makes sense, the Supply Chain Risk Engineering team implements directly — authoring ECNs through CCB, updating BOMs and KMAT/variant structures, and coordinating effectivity with the factories.
• Close the loop with Procurement so new sources are activated commercially once engineering release is complete.

• Serve as the engineering point of response when a sudden, ad hoc material shortage threatens factory output, working with Procurement, Planning, and the factories to assess impact.
• Rapidly identify candidate alternate components or suppliers, evaluate form, fit, function, and compliance,…