Director, EHSS Standards & Mgmt. Systems

Johnson & Johnson • Brunswick, OH

3d • Hybrid

About The Position

At Johnson & Johnson, we believe health is everything. Our strength in healthcare innovation empowers us to build a world where complex diseases are prevented, treated, and cured, where treatments are smarter and less invasive, and solutions are personal. Through our expertise in Innovative Medicine and MedTech, we are uniquely positioned to innovate across the full spectrum of healthcare solutions today to deliver the breakthroughs of tomorrow, and profoundly impact health for humanity. Learn more at jnj.com As guided by Our Credo, Johnson & Johnson is responsible to our employees who work with us throughout the world. We provide an inclusive work environment where each person is considered as an individual. At Johnson & Johnson, we respect the diversity and dignity of our employees and recognize their merit.

Johnson & Johnson announced plans to separate our Orthopedics business to establish a standalone orthopedics company, operating as DePuy Synthes. The process of the planned separation is anticipated to be completed within 18 to 24 months, subject to legal requirements, including consultation with works councils and other employee representative bodies, as may be required, regulatory approvals and other customary conditions and approvals. Should you accept this position, it is anticipated that, following conclusion of the transaction, you would be an employee of DePuy Synthes and your employment would be governed by DePuy Synthes employment processes, programs, policies, and benefit plans. In that case, details of any planned changes would be provided to you by DePuy Synthes at an appropriate time and subject to any necessary consultation processes.

Position Summary: The Director, EHS&S Standards & Management Systems is the enterprise-level owner for the EHS&S management system architecture, EHS&S standards hierarchy, and the governance mechanisms that ensure consistent, risk-based EHS&S performance across all DePuy Synthes businesses, regions, and external supply partners. This role defines “how EHS&S is governed and assured”—including policy/standards design, interpretation, approval of deviations and alternative controls, and management system assurance—independently of first-line program execution. The role establishes the enterprise framework by which global legislative, regulatory, and internationally recognized management system requirements (e.g., ISO-based expectations) are translated into scalable, auditable, and risk-based standards, and it sets the enterprise governance to validate effectiveness, maturity, and compliance. The role also owns enterprise governance of EHS&S digital platforms and SaaS, ensuring data integrity, analytics/insights strategy, and performance reporting that enables executive decision-making and enterprise risk visibility. Reporting to the Global Head of EHS&S, this role partners closely with regional EHS&S leaders and senior leaders across the business to ensure EHS&S development and integration into decision-making, operations, and long-term planning. The role has direct people leadership responsibility, including global process owners for Assurance/Strategy/Standards/Operational Effectiveness and EHS&S Insights & Analytics .

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in safety, environmental, engineering, or related discipline.
• Typically, 10-12+ years progressive EHS&S and/or governance experience in global, multi-site, or regulated environments, with demonstrated enterprise-level governance/standards authority and cross-domain integration.
• Enterprise-level knowledge of global EHS&S legislation and internationally recognized management system expectations; ability to translate requirements into scalable enterprise standards and controls.
• Demonstrated capability to resolve ambiguous, systemic, enterprise-level problems and cross-domain tradeoffs (e.g., safety vs. environmental vs. operational risk) through governance mechanisms.
• Executive-level influence skills to lead horizontally across functions and regions; ability to define governance, assurance, success criteria, and decision rights enterprise-wide
• Deep knowledge of global EHS & S legislation; ISO 45001, ISO 14001, ISO 50001.
• Yes – enterprise leadership and influence (limited direct reports expected), including leadership of leaders/process owners through direct and/or matrixed models to deliver enterprise governance outcomes.

Nice To Haves

• Advanced degree in Environmental Science, Engineering, Sustainability, or related field or professional certification (e.g., CSP, CMIOSH, NEBOSH, ISO Lead Auditor)
• Experience in MedTech, pharmaceutical, or highly regulated manufacturing experience

Responsibilities

• Enterprise ownership and governance of the EHS&S Management System. Establish and maintain enterprise policy, standards hierarchy, governance model, document architecture, and the management system operating cadence (forums, controls, accountabilities) across all regions and businesses.
• Enterprise governance of EHS&S digital systems and SaaS. Own the enterprise oversight model for EHS management platforms, incident management, audit/assurance tools, regulatory tracking, and performance reporting—ensuring standardization, data governance, cybersecurity/controls alignment (as applicable), and analytics strategy for executive and enterprise risk insights.
• Set, approve, and continuously evolve global EHS&S standards. Develop, maintain, and approve global standards aligned to current and emerging legal, regulatory, and internationally recognized management system requirements; ensure standards are risk-based, scalable, and auditable across operating models and supplier networks.
• Serve as the enterprise interpretive authority and deviation approver. Provide final interpretation of EHS&S standards; approve/deny risk-based deviations and alternative controls; ensure decisions reflect enterprise risk exposure and governance expectations.
• Define the enterprise assurance and audit framework (“second line”). Establish and manage the enterprise assurance model aligned with management system expectations, including audit strategy, assurance protocols, independence/segregation-of-duty principles, and escalation pathways for systemic issues and repeated nonconformance.
• Leads and develops global EHS&S Standards and Management Systems team. Provide direct management of global process owners for EHS&S Assurance /Strategy/Standards/Operational Effectiveness and EHS&S Insights & Analytics; direct work of digital and assurance / systems management contractors.
• Establish enterprise KPIs, maturity indicators, and governance reviews. Define management system effectiveness measures and maturity model indicators; lead governance forums that evaluate EHS&S performance and systemic effectiveness, consistency, and risk trends across businesses/regions; drive enterprise corrective actions for systemic weaknesses.
• Embed EHS&S governance into enterprise processes. Embed EHS & S management system requirements into quality systems, capital project governance, change management, and supplier oversight.
• Anticipate external trends and evolve standards proactively. Monitor regulatory, sustainability, and energy-related trends; translate emerging requirements into enterprise standards and management system updates before risk is realized in operations or the supply base.
• Participate in enterprise risk reviews, support regulatory inspection readiness/response as enterprise governance lead, and represent the enterprise in external benchmarking and standards forums.

Benefits

• Vacation –120 hours per calendar year
• Sick time - 40 hours per calendar year; for employees who reside in the State of Colorado –48 hours per calendar year; for employees who reside in the State of Washington –56 hours per calendar year
• Holiday pay, including Floating Holidays –13 days per calendar year
• Work, Personal and Family Time - up to 40 hours per calendar year
• Parental Leave – 480 hours within one year of the birth/adoption/foster care of a child
• Bereavement Leave – 240 hours for an immediate family member: 40 hours for an extended family member per calendar year
• Caregiver Leave – 80 hours in a 52-week rolling period
• Volunteer Leave – 32 hours per calendar year
• Military Spouse Time-Off – 80 hours per calendar year

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director