AME Material Flow & Intralogistics SME

Role Overview The Material Flow & Intralogistics SME is Johnson Controls' global technical authority for how material moves through its plants — AGVs and autonomous mobile robots (AMRs), conveyor system design, plant layout and manufacturing systems engineering, line balancing, and kitting and warehouse flow. Operating within the newly established global Advanced Manufacturing PPO and reporting to the VP of Advanced Manufacturing, this role sets the enterprise standards, owns the technology roadmap, and defines the best practices that govern how Johnson Controls designs and runs material flow across every region and plant. This is a hands-on, front-line role: the SME is expected to be at Gemba — on the plant floor, in the warehouse, at the line — not behind a desk, personally driving problem solving and results rather than delegating them. The role sits at the intersection of day-to-day plant operations, manufacturing/industrial engineering, and the global supply base for material-handling equipment — close enough to the shop floor to understand real constraints, close enough to engineering to influence layout and flow design, and close enough to suppliers of AGVs, AMRs, and conveyor systems to guarantee incoming capability. Success requires deep, hands-on technical mastery of material-flow and intralogistics engineering; the credibility and influence to set direction across a global network without direct line authority; an intense, urgent focus on delivering substantial, measurable improvements in safety, quality, delivery, productivity, and cost rather than incremental activity; and the ability to experiment quickly, prove out solutions at a single line or plant, and then scale what works decisively across locations and regions. Key Accountabilities A) Global Standards & Governance Define, publish, and govern the global standards, specifications, and procedures for AGV/AMR safety and integration, conveyor system design, plant layout, and line-balancing/kitting practices that apply across all Johnson Controls plants. Establish the audit and governance mechanisms that keep every site compliant and consistent. B) Technology Roadmap & Innovation Own and continuously refresh the multi-year global technology roadmap for material flow and intralogistics. Evaluate and pilot emerging technologies — AGV/AMR fleets, conveyor automation, warehouse-management and MES-integrated flow systems, and plant-layout simulation/digital-twin tools — and drive their adoption where they create the greatest enterprise value. C) Best Practice Deployment & Manufacturing Excellence Identify, codify, and deploy material-flow best practices across the global plant network. Partner with plant, regional, and business-system teams to close performance gaps in line balance, kitting accuracy, warehouse throughput, and material availability — building a common global playbook rather than site-by-site solutions. Favor rapid experimentation over lengthy analysis: pilot new layouts, flows, and technologies quickly at a single line or plant, prove out the result, and then scale successful solutions decisively across other locations and regions. D) Engineering & Supplier Partnership Serve as the primary technical liaison between manufacturing/industrial engineering and plant operations, ensuring new lines and layouts are designed for efficient material flow from the earliest stages. Qualify, develop, and audit the global supply base for AGVs, AMRs, conveyor systems, and warehouse automation to guarantee that the best available technology and capability reach Johnson Controls' plants. E) Technical Leadership & Capability Building Build material-flow and intralogistics technical capability across the network through training, certification pathways, and hands-on mentoring of plant and engineering talent. Act as the escalation point and final technical authority for the most complex flow, layout, and logistics-bottleneck problems — leading root-cause investigations and ensuring fixes are sustained, not just applied. F) Hands-On Gemba Leadership & Results Delivery Spend the majority of working time at Gemba — on the plant floor, in the warehouse, at the line — rather than remotely directing work from a desk. Personally lead problem solving on the highest-priority safety, quality, delivery, productivity, and cost issues with a visible sense of urgency, and hold self and others accountable for converting standards and roadmaps into substantial, measurable results, not just documented plans. Winning Behaviors This role must model and embed Johnson Controls' Winning Behaviors as the “how”:

• We Focus on What Matters — We align our teams around customer needs and opportunities identified at Gemba, set clear priorities that deliver the most value, and enable data-informed decisions closest to where the work happens.
• We Win as One Team — We seek and bring together different perspectives, connect teams across the value stream to achieve shared goals, address challenges constructively, promote collaboration and enable ownership closest to the customer.
• We Own the Outcome — We hold our teams accountable, take ownership for team results, drive clear and consistent execution, and build systems that enable sustained performance, always prioritizing safety and integrity.
• We Improve Everyday — We create an environment where problems are surfaced transparently, “red” is embraced as an opportunity to improve, root causes are sustainably addressed, and teams rapidly learn, experiment, adapt, innovate, and grow. Key Leadership Attributes A. Critical thinking. Ability to process and evaluate information, challenge assumptions, deal with complexity, and make logically sound technical judgments, especially under ambiguity. B. Strategic and systems thinking. Ability to see across the full value stream — design, process, supply base, and plant execution — and anticipate upstream and downstream implications of technical decisions. Ability to connect technology choices to longer-term cost, quality, and capability outcomes. C. Learning agility & adaptability. Ability and willingness to learn from experience and apply it in unfamiliar plants, regions, or processes. Curiosity to seek feedback, test new technologies, and learn from both successes and failures. D. Drive & achievement orientation. High internal standard for technical excellence and an unmistakable sense of urgency; not satisfied with standards and roadmaps on a shelf, but driven to deliver substantial, measurable improvement in safety, quality, delivery, productivity, and cost. Persistence in converting plans into results in the field. E. Resilience. Ability to remain calm, confident, and composed when a complex technical failure has to be diagnosed under pressure. Ability to sustain performance and credibility across a global network over time. F. Interpersonal awareness and orientation & influence without authority. Ability to read plant, engineering, and supplier stakeholders and understand their constraints. Natural inclination to build trust, persuade, and shape technical direction across teams that do not report to this role. G. Disciplined and conscientious. Natural tendency toward rigor, structure, and follow-through in documentation, standards, and qualification records. Internal bar for excellence, safety, and precision. H. Leadership courage. Confidence and conviction to challenge a plant, engineering, or supplier decision on technical grounds, and to escalate risk clearly when standards or safety are at stake. I. Humility. Ability to place the standard and the outcome above personal authorship; inclined to share credit generously, listen to frontline and supplier expertise, and recognize that the best answer often comes from the plant floor. J. Bias for action & hands-on presence. Genuine preference for being at Gemba over being in a conference room or behind a screen. Comfort rolling up sleeves alongside o