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 operators and technicians. Ability to move fast testing a solution quickly learning from the result and scaling it across other lines plants and regions rather than waiting for perfect information.

Knowledge & Experience

Required:

• Bachelors degree in Industrial Engineering Manufacturing Engineering Logistics/Supply Chain Engineering or a related technical field

• 10 years of progressive experience in material flow intralogistics or manufacturing systems engineering within complex manufacturing or industrial operations

• Hands-on expertise designing and deploying AGV/AMR systems conveyor systems and plant layouts

• Demonstrated experience with line balancing kitting design and warehouse flow optimization

• Demonstrated experience setting material-flow standards adopted across multiple sites or a global network

• Experience partnering directly with manufacturing/industrial engineering to influence layout and flow design

• Track record of being personally hands-on at Gemba driving urgent resolution of material-flow and logistics bottlenecks

• Willingness and ability to travel internationally (approximately 3050%) to plants and suppliers

• Demonstrated ability to pilot a material-flow solution quickly at one line or plant and then scale it successfully across multiple locations and regions

Strongly Preferred:

• Experience with autonomous mobile robot fleet management and controls-to-WMS/MES integration

• Lean or Six Sigma certification

• Experience in high-mix high-volume manufacturing environments

• Plant layout simulation or digital-twin tool experience (e.g. FlexSim AnyLogic)

• Prior global or multi-country role with exposure to diverse regulatory and cultural operating environments

• Demonstrated pilot-to-scale track record across multiple plants or regions

Core Knowledge Expectations:

• AGV/AMR technology fundamentals and safety standards

• Conveyor system design principles

• Plant layout and facilities planning methodologies

• Line balancing and takt-time analysis

• Kitting and warehouse flow design

• Financial acumen sufficient to build the business case for capital investment in material-handling technology

• Ability to challenge and be challenged by plant engineering and supplier technical experts as a peer authority

Success Measures

12-Month Expectations for Success (Role Scorecard Year 1)

• Global material-flow and AGV/AMR standards published and communicated to all plants

• Technology roadmap for material flow and intralogistics developed and aligned with Advanced Manufacturing leadership

• Baseline assessment of material-flow capability completed across the network

• Priority best practices identified and piloted at 23 lead plants

• Trusted technical relationships established with plant engineering and supplier leadership

• Escalation process defined for complex material-flow and logistics issues with early wins on root-cause resolution

• Majority of working time demonstrably spent at Gemba with visible hands-on involvement in the highest-priority safety quality delivery productivity and cost issues

• At least one standard or best practice taken from pilot to multi-site scale within the year

24-Month Expectations for Success (Role Scorecard Year 2)

• Global standards and best practices fully deployed and audited across the plant network

• Technology roadmap translated into funded capital projects (AGV/AMR conveyor layout redesigns) with measurable ROI

• Supplier base optimized with qualified capable suppliers producing the majority of material-handling equipment

• Global training and certification pathway established with a growing bench of qualified practitioners

• Sustained measurable improvement in material-flow throughput kitting accuracy and cost across the network

• Recognized as Johnson Controls go-to global authority for material flow and intralogistics

• Multiple piloted solutions successfully scaled across regions with a repeatable experiment-deploy-scale rhythm embedded as the standard way this role drives change

• Substantial quantified improvement delivered against safety quality delivery productivity and cost targets sustained through consistent Gemba presence and urgency

HIRING SALARY RANGE: $112100.00 - $187100.00 USD Annual (Salary to be determined by the education experienceknowledge skills and abilities of the applicant internal equity and alignment with marketdata.) This position includes a competitive benefits package. The posted salary range reflectsthe target compensation for this role. However we recognize that exceptional candidatesmay bring unique skills and experiences that exceed the typical profile. If you believe yourbackground warrants consideration beyond the stated range we encourage you to apply. Tosupport an efficient and fair hiring process we may use technology assisted tools including

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