Senior Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) Manager

Job description

Work Flexibility

Onsite Join Stryker in a leadership role focused on advancing environmental, health, and safety programs across manufacturing operations. This position provides strategic and operational oversight of employee health and safety initiatives, regulatory compliance, risk management, and team leadership. As a key member of the plant leadership team, you will partner with manufacturing and business leaders to ensure effective execution of environmental health and safety programs and processes.

What You Will Do

Lead the development and execution of environmental, health, and safety (EHS) strategies, plans, budgets, schedules, and risk mitigation activities aligned with business and regulatory requirements. Manage EHS compliance programs and ensure adherence to applicable local, state, and federal environmental, health, and safety regulations, including reporting and agency interactions. Direct EHS incident investigations, identify root causes, track corrective actions, and monitor trends to reduce workplace risks and improve safety performance metrics.

Oversee emergency response, hazardous material handling, waste management, compliance training, inspections, and management-of-change processes to maintain operational readiness and regulatory compliance. Lead, develop, and manage EHS professionals and cross-functional initiatives while delivering required safety metrics, reports, and continuous improvement activities across the organization.

What You Will Need

Required: Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Health & Safety, Environmental Science, Engineering, Occupational Health, Industrial Hygiene, or a related field. Minimum 10 years of experience in environmental, health, and safety leadership within a manufacturing, industrial, life sciences, or regulated environment. Minimum 5 years of experience managing teams, managers, supervisors, or multi-site EHS programs. Experience managing compliance with federal, state, and local environmental, health, and safety regulations.

Experience developing and managing EHS budgets, programs, and performance metrics.

Preferred

Professional certification such as Certified Safety Professional (CSP), Certified Industrial Hygienist (CIH), or equivalent. Experience supporting medical device, healthcare, pharmaceutical, or other highly regulated manufacturing environments. Experience leading emergency response, hazardous waste management, and continuous improvement initiatives.

United States of America Pay Ranges

$118,000 - $196,700 USD Annual Travel Percentage: 10% Stryker Corporation is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status. Stryker is an EO employer – M/F/Veteran/Disability. Stryker Corporation will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant.

However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information.