Environmental Health & Safety (EHS) Senior Specialist

The Environmental, Health, and Safety (EHS) Senior Specialist is responsible for developing, implementing, and maintaining programs that ensure a safe, healthy, and environmentally responsible workplace. This role supports compliance with local, state, and federal regulations, promotes continuous improvement in EHS performance, and fosters a culture of safety throughout the organization. This is an onsite role in Ventura, CA.

 

What You’ll Do

• Lead site Environmental, Health & Safety strategy and serve as the primary EHS subject-matter expert
• Partner with site leadership to prioritize initiatives and drive a strong culture of safety, accountability, and continuous improvement
• Develop, implement, and maintain EHS programs to ensure compliance with Cal-OSHA, Ventura County APCS, Cal-DTSC, other regulatory requirements, and Stryker standards
• Lead audits, risk assessments, and incident investigations; analyze trends and facilitate the implementation of corrective actions
• Lead EHS projects aligned with risk reduction, ergonomic improvements, and waste reduction
• Evaluate EHS impact of new processes, equipment, and facility changes to ensure appropriate controls are in place
• Maintain waste management requirements and environmental management program.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to embed EHS into daily operations and long-term planning
• Support the EHS Committee in achieving local and global EHS objectives.
• Manage EHS-related expenditures within budget and identify opportunities for efficiency and cost improvement
• Monitor performance metrics, communicate results, and influence stakeholders to deliver measurable EHS outcomes
• Perform ergonomic evaluations
• Coordinate industrial hygiene sampling and medical surveillance

 

What You Need:

• Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Engineering, Occupational Health & Safety, or related field or equivalent combination of education, training and experience.
• Minimum 2 years of EHS experience
• Strong stakeholder management skills and ability to influence at all levels.
• Ability to interpret EHS regulatory requirements and lead programs to meet requirements and bring performance to the next level.

 

Preferred Skills:

• Experience in dealing with EHS regulators (e.g. OSHA., EPA, etc.)
• Experience in leading cross functional project teams.
• Experience in implementing and maintaining EHS management systems (ISO 14001. ISO 45001)
• Certification such as CSP, CIH, or CHMM

$76,500 - $122,000 USD Annual

Health benefits include: Medical and prescription drug insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, critical illness insurance, accident insurance, hospital indemnity insurance, personalized healthcare support, wellbeing program and tobacco cessation program. Financial benefits include: Health Savings Account (HSA), Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs), 401(k) plan, Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP), basic life and AD&D insurance, and short-term disability insurance. Stryker offers innovative products and services in MedSurg, Neurotechnology, Orthopaedics and Spine that help improve patient and healthcare outcomes. Alongside its customers around the world, Stryker impacts more than 150 million patients annually. Depending on customer requirements employees and new hires in sales and field roles that require access to customer accounts as a function of the job may be required to obtain various vaccinations as an essential function of their role.