Senior Manager, EHS Robotics

About the Team

OpenAIs Environmental Health & Safety (EHS) team partners across the company to enable safe responsible growth. This role will be a senior EHS partner to our robotics operations as our operating footprint expands. You will work closely with Robotics Engineering Operations Facilities Workplace Construction Security People Legal and external partners to integrate safety into how our facilities are designed built staffed and operated.

About the Role

We are seeking a Senior Manager EHS - Robotics to provide senior hands-on safety leadership across multiple sites. This role is for an experienced EHS leader who can operate independently in a fast-moving technical environment anticipate risk before it becomes an incident and build practical safety systems that scale with the business.

Our robotics operations are scaling quickly with a growing mix of construction commissioning workforce expansion and around-the-clock operations. This creates a complex and evolving risk environment and requires strong preventive planning consistent field presence and sustained incident-management oversight.

This leader will own site-level EHS strategy and execution for the robotics portfolio while partnering with the broader EHS team on company-wide standards and programs. The successful candidate will look around corners: planning for future ramps identifying requirements early influencing design and operating decisions and creating durable systems that enable teams to move quickly without compromising safety.

In this role you will:

• Serve as a senior EHS partner across robotics R&D operations owning site-level safety strategy priorities and execution as the footprint scales.

• Anticipate EHS requirements for new operations equipment processes construction phases staffing ramps and 24/7 operations and translate them into practical plans before work begins.

• Lead proactive risk identification and control across robotics activities including machine safety ergonomics electrical safety material handling hazardous materials contractor safety and other site-specific risks.

• Build and maintain site EHS programs risk assessments procedures training inspections corrective-action systems emergency preparedness and compliance processes appropriate to each sites risk profile.

• Partner with Robotics Engineering Operations Facilities Workplace Construction Security People Legal and vendors to embed safety into facility design equipment deployment work planning and operating decisions.

• Provide visible field leadership across shifts and operating conditions establishing mechanisms that support effective EHS coverage and escalation for 24/7 operations.

• Lead incident response and investigation for significant events; ensure timely fact-finding root-cause analysis corrective actions verification trend analysis and communication of lessons learned.

• Use incident near-miss inspection and operational data to identify recurring risks and drive preventive actions across sites rather than addressing events in isolation.

• Oversee contractor and contingent-worker safety interfaces clarifying responsibilities expectations reporting and corrective-action ownership across multi-employer worksites.

• Maintain strong regulatory compliance and readiness including applicable Cal/OSHA and OSHA requirements while developing metrics and reporting that make site risks actions and performance visible to leadership.

Youll thrive in this role if you have:

• 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 across occupational safety and health with depth in areas such as machine safety ergonomics electrical safety hazardous energy material handling hazardous materials contractor safety and incident investigation.

• Demonstrated experience supporting complex sites through rapid scale 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 regulatory obligations into practical scalable operating programs.

• Demonstrated success influencing senior technical and operational leaders especially where EHS does not directly own the work and decisions must be made through partnership.

• Experience building EHS systems programs metrics vendor support and operating rhythms for an emerging or rapidly scaling organization.

• Strong judgment and the ability to balance operational speed technical complexity workforce needs compliance and risk without defaulting to overly rigid solutions.

• Clear credible communication skills with executives engineers operators contractors employees and external partners including the ability to communicate during high-pressure incidents.

• Comfort operating independently in ambiguity with the technical depth field orientation pragmatism and ownership needed to anticipate what is coming and build durable safety capability ahead of growth.

About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core and to achieve our mission we must encompass and value the many different perspectives voices and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.

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