Director, EHSS Standards & Mgmt. Systems

Job Function

Environmental Health, Safety (EH&S) and Facilities Services (FS)

Environmental Health & Safety

Professional

New Brunswick, New Jersey;
Raritan, New Jersey;
Warsaw, Indiana;
West Chester, Pennsylvania

DePuy Synthes is recruiting for a Director, EHSS Standards & Management Systems. This Hybrid position will be in New Brunswick, NJ (USA). Alternate Hybrid locations may be considered at Raritan, NJ (USA), West Chester, PA (USA), Warsaw, IN (USA) or Loughbeg, Ringaskiddy, Ireland or St. Anthony's Road, Leeds, UK.

Below are the key details for each location:

• New Brunswick, NJ (USA) – Requisition Number: R-072502
• Loughbeg, Ringaskiddy – Requisition Number: R-073905
• St. Anthony's Road, Leeds, UK – Requisition Number: TBD

Johnson & Johnson announced plans to separate our Orthopedics business to establish a standalone orthopedics company, operating as DePuy Synthes. The separation is anticipated to be completed within 18 to 24 months, subject to legal and regulatory approvals. If you accept this position, you would be an employee of DePuy Synthes and your employment would be governed by DePuy Synthes employment processes, programs, policies, and benefit plans.

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 required 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.

• 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…