Director,EHSS Standards & Mgmt. Systems in Leeds

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

Job Sub Function: Environmental Health & Safety

Job Category: Professional

All Job Posting Locations: Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

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 required to validate effectiveness, maturity, and compliance.

Major Duties & Responsibilities:

• 20% Enterprise ownership and governance of the EHS&S Management System.
• 20% Enterprise governance of EHS&S digital systems and SaaS.
• 10% Set, approve, and continuously evolve global EHS&S standards.
• 10% Serve as the enterprise interpretive authority and deviation approver.
• 10% Define the enterprise assurance and audit framework (second line).
• 10% Leads and develops global EHS&S Standards and Management Systems team.
• 10% Establish enterprise KPIs, maturity indicators, and governance reviews.
• 5% Embed EHS&S governance into enterprise processes.
• 5% Anticipate external trends and evolve standards proactively.

Other Duties: Participate in enterprise risk reviews, support regulatory inspection readiness/response as enterprise governance lead, and represent the enterprise in external benchmarking and standards forums as required.

Required Qualifications:

• Required Minimum Education: Bachelors degree in safety, environmental, engineering, or related discipline.
• Required Years of Related Experience: 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.
• Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: Enterprise-level knowledge of global EHS&S legislation and internationally recognized management system expectations; ability to translate requirements into scalable enterprise standards and controls.

Travel on the Job: Travel Required: Yes Percentage Traveled: Up to 20% Type of Travel Required: Domestic and International

People Management Experience: People Management Experience Required: 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.

Preferred Qualifications:

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

Key Working Relationships:

• Internal: Global EHSS leadership, Quality, Risk, Legal, Internal Audit, Operations, Supply Chain
• External: Regulatory bodies, auditors, standards organizations; enterprise representation as the EHS&S standards and management system authority when required.

Supervisory Responsibilities: Direct Reports: Global process owners for global process owners for Assurance/Strategy/Standards/Operational Effectiveness and EHS&S Insights & Analytics. Indirect Reports: Enterprise-wide influence across regions and sites.

Decision Making Authority: Makes hiring recommendations; trains employees; plans work of others; reviews work quality and quantity; conducts performance reviews; makes pay and promotional recommendations; sets global EHS&S standards and governance; approves risk-based deviations; recommends enterprise investments and priorities.

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