Director, Environmental Health & Safety

• Remote
• Manufacturing
• Full-Time
• Requisition #: DIREC
  002574

Company Overview

Headquartered in suburban Atlanta, Georgia, Artivion, Inc. specializes in developing innovative medical devices aimed at addressing challenging cardiac and vascular conditions. Our Austin facility houses a diverse team dedicated to producing the On-X Mechanical Heart Valves. With over 1,600 employees globally and manufacturing sites in Atlanta, Austin, and Hechingen, Germany, Artivion serves healthcare professionals in over 100 countries. For more details on the On-X Mechanical Heart Valve,  .

Position Objective
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The Director, Global Environmental, Health and Safety (EHS) serves as Artivion’s global functional leader for EHS and is responsible for establishing and driving the Company’s EHS strategy, governance, standards, and management systems across all Artivion locations worldwide, including manufacturing facilities, offices, laboratories, warehouses, and other company-controlled workplaces.

This role provides leadership and oversight to ensure compliance with applicable environmental, occupational health, and workplace safety laws and regulations in each jurisdiction in which Artivion operates. The Director establishes global EHS policies and minimum standards, provides subject-matter expertise and guidance to site and functional leadership, and ensures effective systems are in place for risk identification and mitigation, regulatory compliance, incident management, emergency preparedness, training, auditing, and continuous improvement.

The Director partners with site leaders and functional leadership to build a strong EHS culture, establish clear accountability, proactively reduce risk, and drive continuous improvement in EHS performance. The role serves as the Company’s principal EHS advisor, providing leadership with visibility to significant EHS risks, regulatory matters, performance trends, and required corrective actions.

Responsibilities
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• Lead the development, implementation, and continuous improvement of Artivion’s global Environmental, Health and Safety (EHS) strategy, management system, policies, standards, and programs across all Company locations worldwide.
• Establish global EHS requirements and minimum standards while partnering with site and functional leadership to ensure effective local implementation and compliance with applicable country, federal, state, provincial, and local environmental, occupational health, and workplace safety laws and regulations.
• Serve as Artivion’s principal EHS subject-matter expert and advisor to senior leadership, site leadership, and functional teams on EHS regulatory requirements, significant risks, compliance matters, and emerging EHS issues.
• Establish and maintain a global process for identifying, assessing, prioritizing, and mitigating EHS risks. Ensure appropriate controls and corrective actions are implemented and significant or unacceptable risks are appropriately escalated to leadership.
• Provide governance and oversight of occupational health and workplace safety programs, including, as applicable, hazard communication, chemical safety, industrial hygiene, ergonomics, machine safety and guarding, lockout/tagout, electrical safety, personal protective equipment, contractor safety, fire/life safety, and other workplace hazards.
• Lead the Company’s environmental compliance framework, including appropriate management of hazardous materials and waste, chemical management, spills and releases, environmental permits, air and water requirements, pollution prevention, and other applicable environmental obligations.
• Establish and maintain the Company’s global EHS incident management process, including requirements for timely reporting, investigation, root-cause…