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

Johnson Controls•Glendale, AZ

6d•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, including factories, warehouses, distribution centers, logistics activities, and related locations worldwide. This role reports to the Vice President, Global EHS and is responsible for translating enterprise EHS direction into a framework, standards, expertise, assurance, and performance system for the network. The role leads through regional and site EHS teams and collaborates with Global Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Operations, Engineering, Quality, Human Resources, Sustainability, and regional leadership. The primary focus is on Serious Injury and Fatality (SIF) prevention by identifying high-energy and high-consequence exposures, defining and verifying critical controls, and prioritizing elimination and engineering controls. The role owns the EHS management system, risk-based assurance, and performance framework for the network, embedding EHS into capital deployment, facility design, equipment, acquisitions, and network changes. While the EHS organization owns the system, operational leaders are accountable for performance. The role is not accountable for day-to-day site EHS performance, which rests with plant, distribution, and supply-chain leaders, but it possesses 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 a consistent method to identify high-energy and high-consequence exposures in various types of work.
Define critical controls, accountable owners, and verification requirements.
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.
Translate the strategy into standards, minimum requirements, metrics, investment priorities, and roadmaps.
Define decision-making processes between enterprise EHS, this function, regional and site EHS teams, and operational leadership.
Set risk-reduction standards and execution requirements for various safety areas including machine safeguarding, lockout/tagout, electrical safety, material handling, work at height, confined spaces, contractor safety, industrial hygiene, warehouse and logistics safety, and fire/life safety.
Set clear EHS expectations from executives to frontline supervisors, contractors, and EHS professionals.
Build frontline capability to recognize hazards and verify critical controls.
Create real employee participation and stop-work authority.
Assess leaders on control quality and responsiveness to risk.
Establish environmental standards and governance for the network.
Ensure effective management of air emissions, wastewater, waste, hazardous materials, spills, and permits.
Integrate environmental requirements into operations, capital projects, acquisitions, and network decisions.
Implement and continuously improve a global EHS management system for the network.
Run a risk-based audit and assurance program focused on SIF exposures, critical-control effectiveness, and high-risk facilities.
Verify corrective actions before closure.
Coordinate significant regulatory matters with Legal and enterprise EHS leadership.
Establish a network compliance calendar.
Embed EHS requirements and design principles into capital planning, equipment procurement, facility design, automation, construction, expansions, and relocations.
Participate in due diligence for acquisitions and major network changes.
Ensure risks and remediation are built into integration and investment plans.
Partner with counterparts on the Field Operations side to solicit improvement opportunities and integrate solutions for field performance improvement.
Build a performance framework that balances outcomes with leading indicators of exposure, control effectiveness, and learning.
Deliver executive dashboards and regular reviews with leaders.
Integrate EHS into the operating system and continuous improvement.
Support executive and Board reporting.
Lead, develop, and strengthen the EHS organization supporting the network.
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.
Establish succession for every regional and senior site EHS leader.