Senior Manager, EHS - Robotics

Responsibilities

• Serve as the senior EHS partner for robotics R&D operations, owning site-level safety strategy, priorities, and execution across a growing portfolio.
• Anticipate EHS requirements for new operations, equipment, processes, construction phases, staffing ramps, and 24/7 operations; translate them into practical plans.
• Lead proactive risk identification and control across machine safety, ergonomics, electrical safety, material handling, hazardous materials, contractor safety, and related site risks.
• Build and maintain EHS programs, risk assessments, procedures, training, inspections, corrective-action systems, emergency preparedness, and compliance processes.
• Partner with technical, operational, facilities, construction, workplace, security, legal, people, and vendor teams to embed safety into facility design, equipment deployment, work planning, and operating decisions.
• Provide field leadership across shifts and operating conditions, including EHS coverage and escalation mechanisms for 24/7 operations.
• Lead significant-incident response and investigations, including fact-finding, root-cause analysis, corrective actions, verification, trend analysis, and lessons learned.
• Use incident, near-miss, inspection, and operational data to identify recurring risks and drive preventive actions across sites.
• Oversee contractor and contingent-worker safety interfaces across multi-employer worksites.
• Maintain regulatory compliance and readiness, including applicable OSHA and Cal/OSHA requirements, and develop risk and performance metrics for leadership.

Requirements

• 15+ years of progressive EHS experience, including significant leadership responsibility in robotics, advanced manufacturing, R&D, industrial, or similarly complex technical environments.
• Strong technical knowledge of occupational safety and health, including machine safety, ergonomics, electrical safety, hazardous energy, material handling, hazardous materials, contractor safety, and incident investigation.
• Experience supporting complex sites through rapid scaling, construction and operational overlap, commissioning, process change, or transition to extended or 24/7 operations.
• Strong working knowledge of OSHA and Cal/OSHA requirements and the ability to translate regulations into scalable operating programs.
• Demonstrated success influencing senior technical and operational leaders through partnership.
• Experience building EHS systems, programs, metrics, vendor support, and operating rhythms for emerging or rapidly scaling organizations.
• Strong judgment and ability to balance operational speed, technical complexity, workforce needs, compliance, and risk.
• Clear communication skills with executives, engineers, operators, contractors, employees, and external partners, including during high-pressure incidents.
• Ability to operate independently in ambiguous environments with technical depth, field orientation, pragmatism, and ownership.