Entry Level Environmental Jobs
New grad environmental jobs welcome recent graduates and entry level candidates with zero to two years of experience, where strong internship work or a field-based portfolio can matter more than a long resume. Most openings are on-site roles across Consulting & Professional Services, Education, and Waste Management & Environmental Services, with employers like Veolia, Healthcare Services, and Sodexo hiring at this level now.
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Stryker is seeking a Product Environmental Compliance Specialist to support our Endoscopy division. In this entry-level role, you will help ensure our products meet global environmental compliance requirements throughout the product lifecycle. Working closely with the Product Environmental Compliance (PEC) Manager, Senior PEC Specialist, and cross-functional teams, you will assist with reviewing compliance information, maintaining product data and documentation, supporting compliance-related projects, and responding to environmental compliance inquiries from internal stakeholders and external partners.
Workplace Flexibility: This role is designated as remote; however, strong preference will be given to candidates located near one of the following Stryker facilities: Flower Mound, TX; San Jose, CA; Portage, MI; Greenwood Village, CO; or Tempe, AZ. Employees may be expected to work onsite periodically for collaboration, meetings, and business needs, with up to 20% onsite presence required.
What You Will Do
- Support the divisional Product Environmental Compliance (PEC) program by reviewing supplier and third-party compliance evidence for completeness, accuracy, and alignment with applicable requirements.
- Manage day-to-day coordination with the third-party PEC evidence partner by organizing work intake, communicating priorities, clarifying evidence requirements, tracking progress, and helping resolve escalated issues.
- Assist the Senior PEC Specialist with regulatory interpretation, audit preparation, evidence review, product compliance reports, and responses to internal or external compliance requests.
- Monitor assigned PEC activities, track regulatory or procedure updates, and support impact assessments and implementation actions for new or revised requirements.
- Collaborate with engineering, regulatory, quality, sourcing, operations, suppliers, and third-party evidence providers to obtain, evaluate, and maintain PEC documentation across the product lifecycle.
- Support sustainment projects, and post-launch design changes by assessing PEC documentation needs, coordinating evidence collection, and ensuring required records are completed according to procedure.
- Maintain PEC data in internal systems and reporting tools; identify data gaps, perform data reconciliation, and escalate issues or trends to the Senior PEC Specialist or management as appropriate.
- Research and prepare draft responses for customer, sales, regulatory, and supplier-related PEC inquiries, ensuring responses are accurate, well documented, and completed within expected timelines.
- Support PEC nonconformance investigations, planned deviations, corrective actions, and process improvement initiatives by gathering evidence, documenting investigation methods, and helping drive timely closure.
What You Need
Required
- Bachelor’s degree
Preferred
- Bachelor’s degree in environmental science, material science, engineering, pharmaceutical sciences, or related scientific/technical field
- Experience in a regulated industry, compliance, quality, engineering, sourcing, data management, or related technical environment (such as automotive, pharmaceutical, aerospace, electronics, or manufacturing)
- Familiarity with environmental regulations or restricted substance programs such as RoHS, REACH, TSCA, EU MDR Restricted Substances, EU Packaging, Stockholm Convention, WEEE, batteries, or California Proposition 65
- Experience reviewing supplier declarations, material compliance evidence, bills of materials, product documentation, engineering drawings, or quality records
- Experience with Microsoft Office, data analysis, reporting tools, compliance databases, or third-party environmental compliance evidence systems
Posted Date: 07/09/2026
This role will be posted for a minimum of 3 days.
United States of America Pay Ranges:
- USN: $72,500 - $120,900 USD Annual
- US5: $76,100 - $126,900 USD Annual
- US10: $79,800 - $133,000 USD Annual
- US15: $83,400 - $139,000 USD Annual
- US20: $87,000 - $145,100 USD Annual
- US30: $94,300 - $157,200 USD Annual
View the U.S. work location and transparency guide to find the pay range for your location.
Health benefits include: Medical and prescription drug insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, critical illness insurance, accident insurance, hospital indemnity insurance, personalized healthcare support, wellbeing program and tobacco cessation program. Financial benefits include: Health Savings Account (HSA), Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs), 401(k) plan, Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP), basic life and AD&D insurance, and short-term disability insurance. Stryker 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. Depending on customer requirements employees and new hires in sales and field roles that require access to customer accounts as a function of the job may be required to obtain various vaccinations as an essential function of their role.
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Entry Level Environmental Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get an entry level environmental job?
Employers hiring entry level environmentals look for relevant coursework, field experience from internships or volunteer projects, and familiarity with environmental compliance or data collection basics. Certifications like HAZWOPER or 40-hour OSHA training can give candidates an edge. Tailoring your resume to show hands-on lab, fieldwork, or GIS exposure helps you stand out even with a short work history.
Which companies hire entry level environmentals?
Companies hiring entry level environmentals right now include Veolia, Healthcare Services, and Sodexo, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of July 2026. At this level, hiring covers environmental consulting firms, government contractors, utilities, and industrial companies with active compliance and remediation programs.
Are there remote entry level environmental jobs?
Yes, though fieldwork-heavy roles are still predominantly on-site. About 16% of entry level environmental openings are remote or hybrid as of July 2026, typically covering data analysis, report writing, permitting support, and environmental monitoring tasks that can be performed off-site.
Are these new grad environmental jobs?
Yes. These listings include new grad, recent graduate, and junior environmental roles designed for candidates early in their careers. A posting is new-grad friendly when it welcomes zero to two years of experience, counts internships or co-ops toward requirements, or accepts a strong academic portfolio in place of full-time work history.
Which industries hire the most entry level environmentals?
Entry level environmental roles concentrate in Consulting & Professional Services, Education, and Waste Management & Environmental Services, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of July 2026. These sectors drive consistent entry level demand because regulatory compliance, site assessment, and environmental reporting require dedicated junior staff to support senior scientists and project managers.