Environmental Health & Safety Co-Op Placement 2025

JOB TITLE: Environmental Health & Safety Co-Op Placement 2025

This position will provide you, as part of your college studies, the experience of working in a regulated medical device company. You will join the EHS team and work cross functionally with all areas of the site to drive EHS standards. Throughout the placement, you will be an integral part of Stryker’s 2025 Cooperative cohort.

Tasks and responsibilities may include:

• Provide support to the team and department by assisting with day-to-day activities as required.

• Help identify health & safety issues, assist with investigations and corrective actions.

• Work with the team to build employee engagement.

• Ensure adherence with Safety, Quality, Service and Financial systems.

• Perform EHS day to day safety routines including safety observations, near misses, ergonomic and risk assessments.

• Work as part of the 6S team to ensure compliance.

• The Co-Op Student, together with their Stryker Team Leader, identifies a process improvement project.

• Identify the project charter, objectives, scope, success factors, milestones, and evaluation metrics.

• Implement the process improvement project and meets the specified objectives and milestones.

• Involve other key stakeholders and facilitates project meetings effectively.

• Communicate project updates and presents at the relevant project review forums.

• Effectively adapt to practically working in a workplace by being dependable, dependable, punctual, initiative-taking, hardworking, organised and a team-player.

To be eligible:

• You must be currently pursuing a degree in an Environmental Health & Safety discipline

• You must have a valid work permit to take up an internship in Ireland

• You must be enrolled in an Irish University/College for the duration of the internship

What you will need:

• Honesty and integrity are essential to comply with the quality system, regulations, and company policies

• Be able to adapt to practically working in a workplace by being dependable, dependable, punctual, initiative-taking, hardworking, organised and a team-player

• Enjoy working in a dynamic, fast and results orientated environment

• Be collaborative in order to work as part of a multi-disciplined team

• Good verbal and written communication skills

• Good analytical and critical thinking skills

Stryker is a global leader in medical technologies and, together with its customers, is driven to make healthcare better. The company offers innovative products and services in MedSurg, Neurotechnology, Orthopaedics and Spine that help improve patient and healthcare outcomes. Alongside its customers around the world, Stryker impacts more than 150 million patients annually.