Senior Manager, HSE Risk Management @ STERIS

Position Summary

Leads a defined portion of the enterprise Risk Management capability, translating enterprise risk methodologies and priorities into coordinated technical programs, operating approaches, and effective support for the business. The position integrates specialized expertise, manages complex and systemic risk issues, and ensures assigned risk disciplines are consistently applied across organizational boundaries. The Senior Manager develops professionals, partners with HSE Operations and business leaders, and drives improvement in risk identification, control design, and control effectiveness. The role operates within the enterprise direction established by the Director, HSE Risk Management, while exercising substantial judgment in execution and technical integration.

What You’ll do as a Senior Manager, HSE Risk Management

• Lead assigned HSE risk disciplines and programs. Translate enterprise Risk Management direction into effective priorities, plans, technical practices, and coordinated execution across the assigned portfolio.
• Manage complex and systemic occupational or operational risk issues. Integrate technical information, operational context, and control effectiveness to resolve difficult issues and support sound risk decisions.
• Ensure consistent application of enterprise risk methodologies. Drive effective use of risk assessment, hierarchy of controls, critical-control concepts, and verification approaches within assigned areas.
• Provide senior technical and organizational guidance to HSE Operations and business stakeholders. Help leaders interpret risk information, evaluate options, and implement practical and sustainable controls.
• Coordinate specialized expertise across risk disciplines. Connect internal and external subject-matter resources where issues cross technical boundaries or require deeper expertise
• Lead and develop Risk Management professionals. Set expectations, coach performance, build technical capability, and strengthen professional judgment within the assigned team or portfolio.
• Support integration of risk management into business change. Partner with Engineering, Operations, Growth Enablement, and other stakeholders to identify and address risk during projects, changes, and operational decisions.
• Analyze risk trends and recurring control weaknesses. Use data, events, assurance results, and field insight to identify systemic issues and improvement priorities.
• Improve Risk Management tools, practices, and technical guidance. Convert learning and emerging needs into more effective and scalable approaches.
• Measure and communicate capability effectiveness. Monitor implementation and outcomes, communicate significant issues, and recommend adjustments to priorities or resources.

The Experience, Skills, and Abilities Needed

Required

• Bachelor's degree in occupational safety, industrial hygiene, engineering, environmental health, science, or a related technical discipline.
• Minimum 10 years progressive HSE experience with demonstrated responsibility for complex occupational or operational risk programs.
• Experience leading professionals, technical work, or significant cross-functional risk initiatives.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze complex problems, integrate technical input, and develop practical recommendations.

Preferred

• Relevant professional certification such as CSP, CIH, PE, or equivalent.
• Experience supporting multiple sites, businesses, or operating environments.
• Experience with critical-control or serious-injury/fatality prevention approaches.
• Experience in a complex, multi-site, regulated, manufacturing, healthcare, life-sciences, or similarly diverse organization.

Other

• Strong working knowledge of risk assessment, hierarchy of controls, critical controls, control effectiveness, and relevant occupational or operational risk practices.
• Ability to recognize systemic risk patterns and use data, events, assurance results, and field insight to establish improvement priorities.
• Strong technical problem solving and judgment across difficult and sometimes complex risk issues.
• Strong communication, coaching, stakeholder-management, and cross-functional influence skills.
• Ability to coordinate specialist expertise and translate technical input into practical operating solutions.

What STERIS Offers

We value our employees and are committed to providing a comprehensive benefits package that supports your health, well-being, and financial future.

Here is a brief overview of what we offer:

• Market competitive pay
• Extensive paid time off and (9) added holidays
• Excellent healthcare, dental, and vision benefits
• Long/short term disability coverage
• 401(K) with company match
• Maternity and parental leave
• Additional add on benefits/discounts for programs such as pet insurance
• Tuition reimbursement and continued educational programs
• Excellent opportunities for advancement in a stable long-term career

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Pay range for this opportunity is $107,525.00 - $139,150.00. This position is eligible for bonus participation.

Minimum pay rates offered will comply with county/city minimums, if higher than range listed. Pay rates are based on a number of factors, including but not limited to local labor market costs, years of relevant experience, education, professional certifications, foreign language fluency, etc.

STERIS offers a comprehensive and competitive benefits portfolio. Click here for a complete list of benefits: STERIS Benefits

Open until position is filled.

STERIS is a leading global provider of products and services that support patient care with an emphasis on infection prevention. WE HELP OUR CUSTOMERS CREATE A HEALTHIER AND SAFER WORLD by providing innovative healthcare and life sciences products and services around the globe. For more information, visit www.steris.com.

If you need assistance completing the application process, please call 1 (440) 392.7047. This contact information is for accommodation inquiries only and cannot be used to check application status.

STERIS is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity to ensure that persons are recruited, hired, trained, transferred and promoted in all job groups regardless of race, color, religion, age, disability, national origin, citizenship status, military or veteran status, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, and any other category protected by federal, state or local law. We are not only committed to this policy by our status as a federal government contractor, but also we are strongly bound by the principle of equal employment opportunity.

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