Vice President, Environmental Health & Safety Global Supply Chain (Remote)

Johnson Controls•Glendale, AZ

7d•$225,000 - $351,000•Remote

About The Position

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.

Requirements

10+ years of relevant experience in EHS
Significant progressive EHS leadership across a large, geographically dispersed manufacturing, industrial or supply-chain network, with practical factory-floor experience
Executive-level experience developing and implementing global EHS strategies, standards, management systems and assurance programs
Demonstrated success preventing serious injuries and fatalities (SIF) through critical-risk identification, verification of controls and engineering-led risk reduction
Record of building operational accountability and influencing senior leaders across a complex matrix without relying solely on functional authority
Development of regional and site EHS leaders, succession planning and resource alignment
Bachelor's degree in Environmental Health & Safety, Engineering, Industrial Hygiene, Occupational Safety, Environmental Science or a related technical discipline
SIF prevention, high-energy hazard identification and critical-control management
Occupational safety, industrial hygiene, occupational health and exposure assessment
Environmental compliance: air, wastewater, waste, hazardous materials, spills and permits
EHS management systems and risk-based audit and assurance, including ISO 45001 and ISO 14001
Design-for-safety, engineering controls and management of change for capital, equipment and network changes
EHS performance measurement, leading indicators and analytics

Nice To Haves

Experience in organizations with large global manufacturing footprints and mature operational-excellence systems
Experience integrating EHS into capital projects, engineering, automation and continuous improvement
Establishing global standards across different regulatory and cultural environments and levels of site maturity
Advanced degree in engineering, business, EHS or a related field
CSP, CIH, CHMM or equivalent international credentials

Responsibilities

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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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. Participate in due diligence for acquisitions and major network changes, and ensure risks and remediation are built into integration and investment plans. Partner with counterparts on Field Operations side to solicit improvement opportunities and work to integrate solutions for field performance improvement using the Johnson Controls Business System.
Build a performance framework that balances outcomes with leading indicators of exposure, control effectiveness and learning, with consistent definitions and data quality across sites. Deliver executive dashboards and regular reviews with regional, manufacturing, supply-chain and EHS leaders, integrate EHS into the operating system and continuous improvement, and support executive and Board reporting through the Vice President, Global EHS.
Lead, develop and strengthen the EHS organization supporting the network at global, regional and site levels. Align resources to facility size, complexity and risk; build expertise in SIF prevention, engineering controls, industrial hygiene and environmental management; build a global EHS community with consistent standards and career paths; and establish succession for every regional and senior site EHS leader.