About the RoleWe 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 site's 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.
You'll 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.
