EHS Director

The Director, EHS - Assurance and Risk is responsible for providing independent, enterprise-wide oversight of Environmental, Health & Safety (EHS) performance across Stryker. This role ensures robust assurance systems, transparent reporting, and effective risk management practices. This leader drives the global EHS assurance strategy across manufacturing, commercial, and distribution operations, ensuring compliance, identifying systemic risks, and strengthening a culture of accountability and continuous improvement.

Essential duties & responsibilities

Global EHS Assurance & Audit

• Lead the design and execution of the global EHS assurance and audit program
• Maintain and schedule self-assessments of internal standards: Oversee internal EHS audits and assurance audits across all regions and business units
• Ensure audits assess both regulatory compliance and management system effectiveness
• Support and drive additional sites to ISO 14001/45001 certification: Drive standardization of audit methodologies, tools, and auditor capability
• Responsible for inspecting multiple sites as the lead auditor of internal EHS standards

Compliance & Verification

• Schedule Compliance audits: Establish processes for ongoing compliance verification with global, regional, and local EHS regulations
• Strong understanding of global EHS regulations and maintain external regulations website with vendor
• Identify compliance gaps and ensure timely escalation and resolution
• Partner with regional/site EHS leaders to strengthen compliance frameworks

Enterprise Risk Management (EHS)

• Own and maintain the enterprise EHS risk register
• Identify, assess, and prioritize key EHS risks across manufacturing, commercial, and distribution environments
• Integrate EHS risks into broader enterprise risk management frameworks and communicate with global leadership as required
• Drive proactive risk mitigation strategies and tracking

Assurance Reporting

• Partner with Global leadership team and COE to develop and deliver clear, compliance and assurance data to understand common themes at Stryker sites
• Provide independent insights on trends, risks, and systemic issues
• Elevate transparency and enable informed decision-making at the highest levels

Corrective & Preventive Action Effectiveness

• Establish processes to monitor and verify the effectiveness of corrective and preventive actions (CAPAs)
• Ensure issues are not only resolved but prevented from recurring
• Drive accountability across sites and leadership teams

Governance, Training & Continuous Improvement

• Promote a culture of transparency, and continuous improvement
• Develop an auditors training course and train key leaders on proper self-audit processes and create a certified group of internal auditors that clearly understand Stryker EHS standards
• Benchmark against industry best practices and emerging regulatory expectations

Leadership

• Build and scale a high-performing global assurance and risk team developing individuals in leadership and technical capability.
• Influence without authority across regions and functions
• Partner closely with EHS Operations/Commercial, EHS COE, and leadership/cross-functional teams across the organization to drive an effective assurance program

Education & special trainings

Bachelor's degree in environmental science, Occupational Health & Safety, Engineering, or related field

Qualifications & experience

Required

• 10+ years of work experience required

Preferred

• 7+ years of progressive EHS leadership experience in a global, regulated industry (medical device, pharma, or similar) with multi-site and/or regional accountability
• 4+ years of people management experience highly preferred
• Deep expertise in EHS auditing, compliance, and risk management systems
• Strong executive presence with experience presenting to senior leadership and/or Board-level audiences
• Experience integrating EHS into enterprise risk management (ERM) frameworks
• Experience in a global, regulated industry (medical device, pharma, or similar)
• Deep expertise across multiple EHS disciplines (industrial hygiene, process safety, environmental compliance, radiation safety)
• Demonstrated experience leading global standards, systems, and technical programs
• Proven ability to lead a certified and trained internal auditing team
• Strong knowledge of global EHS regulations and management systems
• Experience building or transforming global EHS management systems and capability models
• Executive presence with ability to communicate complex technical topics clearly to senior leadership
• Advanced degree (MBA, MS, or similar)
• Professional certifications (e.g., CSP, CIH, ISO 14001/45001 Lead Auditor) is preferred
• Practical experience with Lean/Six Sigma business process improvement methodology, belt certification is preferred.

Candidates must have the ability to maintain a regular onsite presence at one of the following locations: Portage, MI; Cary, IL; Mahwah, NJ; San Jose, CA; or Flower Mound, TX. Specific onsite expectations and weekly schedule requirements will be finalized during the hiring process.

United States of America Pay Ranges

• USN: $135,600 - $225,900 USD Annual
• US5: $142,400 - $237,200 USD Annual
• US10: $149,200 - $248,500 USD Annual
• US15: $155,900 - $259,800 USD Annual
• US20: $162,700 - $271,100 USD Annual
• US30: $176,300 - $293,700 USD Annual

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Benefits

• Medical and prescription drug insurance
• dental insurance
• vision insurance
• critical illness insurance
• accident insurance
• hospital indemnity insurance
• personalized healthcare support
• wellbeing program
• tobacco cessation program
• Health Savings Account (HSA)
• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)
• 401(k) plan
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
• basic life and AD&D insurance
• 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.