Job Function:
Environmental Health, Safety (EH&S) and Facilities Services (FS)
Job Sub Function:
Environmental Health & Safety
Job Category:
People Leader
All Job Posting Locations:
Ringaskiddy, Cork, Ireland
Major Duties & Responsibilities
25% – Defines and leads the global EHS&S strategy, ensuring alignment with enterprise risk management, facilities strategy, and business priorities across R&D, Supply Chain, Facilities, and Commercial functions.
20% – Establishes enterprise-level governance, standards, and management systems for environmental protection, occupational health and safety, and sustainability, ensuring consistent implementation and accountability worldwide.
15% – Serves as the senior executive owner of EHS&S risk, providing oversight of significant risks, incidents, regulatory matters, and emerging issues, and ensuring appropriate escalation and mitigation.
15% – Leads and develops a global EHS&S leadership organization, including functional, regional, and systems leadership, building capability, succession, and leadership depth.
10% – Oversees enterprise EHS&S performance monitoring and assurance, including management reviews, audits, metrics, and corrective actions, driving continuous improvement and sustained performance.
10% – Acts as a strategic advisor to executive leadership on EHS&S implications of business strategy, capital investments, acquisitions, and transformation initiatives.
5% – Represents the organization externally with regulators, industry bodies, and other stakeholders on EHS&S and sustainability matters.
Other Duties
Provides executive leadership during crisis management situations involving significant safety, environmental, or sustainability risk.
Sponsors enterprise-wide EHS&S transformation, capability-building, and continuous improvement initiatives.
Required Qualifications
Required Minimum Education: Bachelor's degree in Environmental Science, Engineering, Occupational Health & Safety, Industrial Hygiene, or a related technical discipline.
Required Years of Related Experience: Typically 10+ years of progressive experience in environmental, health, safety, sustainability, facilities risk, operations or related disciplines, including senior leadership roles with global scope in complex, multi-site, and regulated operating environments.
Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
Demonstrated global leadership experience, including accountability for strategy, governance, and performance across multiple regions and geographies.
Proven ability to lead large, globally distributed organizations with both functional and regional leadership structures.
Deep expertise in environmental, health, safety, and sustainability management systems, regulatory compliance, and enterprise risk management.
Experience advising executive leadership on EHS&S risks, opportunities, and implications of business strategy and capital investment.
Exceptional leadership presence, judgment, and communication skills, with the ability to influence at executive and board-adjacent levels.
Travel on the Job
Travel Required: Yes
Percentage Traveled: Approximately *****%
Type of Travel Required: Domestic and International
People Management Experience
People Management Experience Required: Yes
Required Years of People Management Experience: Extensive global leadership experience
Preferred Qualifications
Preferred Minimum Education: Advanced degree in a relevant technical, scientific, or business discipline.
Preferred Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: Experience leading EHS&S at an enterprise or sector level; familiarity with global sustainability frameworks and external reporting; experience integrating EHS&S with facilities, risk management, and enterprise governance.
Key Working Relationships
Internal: Executive leadership; Corporate Real Estate; Facilities; Risk Management; R&D; Supply Chain; Commercial; Quality; Regulatory; Finance; Legal; and HR.
External: Regulatory agencies, industry associations, insurers, sustainability organizations, and external advisors.
Supervisory Responsibilities
Direct Reports: Global Leader, Occupational Health & Safety (D1); Global Leader, Environmental Compliance & Sustainability (D1); Regional EHS&S Leaders (D1); Global Leader, EHS&S Standards & Management Systems.
Indirect Reports: Site-level EHS&S teams across all regions.
Decision Making Authority
Makes hiring and promotional recommendations; conducts performance reviews; approves EHS&S strategy and resource allocation; recommends and approves budget decisions; resolves escalated risk, compliance, and personnel matters.
Johnson & Johnson is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by federal, state or local law.
We actively seek qualified candidates who are protected veterans and individuals with disabilities as defined under VEVRAA and Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act.
Johnson & Johnson is committed to providing an interview process that is inclusive of our applicants' needs.
If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request an accommodation, please contact us via the career website or contact AskGS to be directed to your accommodation resource.
Required Skills:
Corporate Experience, Developing Others, EHS Compliance, Emergency Planning, Environmental Protection, Facility Management, Fact-Based Decision Making, Inclusive Leadership, Leadership, People Performance Management, Quality Assurance (QA), Regulatory Compliance, Relationship Building, Risk Management, Safety-Oriented, Strategic Thinking, Technical Credibility
Preferred Skills:
Corporate Experience, Developing Others, EHS Compliance, Emergency Planning, Environmental Protection, Facility Management, Fact-Based Decision Making, Inclusive Leadership, Leadership, People Performance Management, Quality Assurance (QA), Regulatory Compliance, Relationship Building, Risk Management, Safety-Oriented, Strategic Thinking, Technical Credibility
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