Lead EHS & Facilities Engineer

About the role

This role is accountable for environmental health, safety, and facility performance across the full lifecycle—from site buildout and infrastructure design to daily operations and global scale-up—and is responsible for building the systems, standards, and culture required to enable rapid iteration without compromising safety or reliability.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead all aspects of EHS and Facilities across:
  • Environmental Health & Safety (workplace safety, regulatory compliance, risk mitigation)
  • Facilities Engineering (infrastructure design, maintenance, and uptime)
  • Industrial Hygiene & Environmental Programs (hazardous materials, air/water/waste compliance)
  • Site Operations (utilities, layout, capacity, and production support systems)
• Establish a single, unified EHS and Facilities operating system across all sites
• Standardize policies, procedures, and metrics from early site buildout through scaled production
• Ensure consistency across global locations while enabling rapid deployment
• Build and manage a high-performing team of EHS and Facilities engineers embedded in operations
• Develop strong on-site ownership with clear accountability for safety and uptime
• Scale the team in line with production growth
• Define and implement risk-based safety and compliance strategies
• Prioritize critical hazards and high-consequence failure modes over checkbox compliance
• Transition from reactive safety management to proactive hazard elimination
• Own site readiness and facility acceptance strategy
• Ensure new and existing sites meet safety, environmental, and operational requirements before production
• Define standards for commissioning, qualification, and ongoing certification
• Establish contractor and vendor safety qualification and performance systems
• Develop onboarding, auditing, and accountability mechanisms for all third-party work
• Drive continuous improvement in contractor safety and compliance
• Implement leading and lagging indicators (TRIR, near misses, downtime, MTBF)
• Use data to prioritize investments and interventions
• Seek to automate reporting and critical information gaps where possible
• Partner with Manufacturing Engineering to:
  • Optimize layouts for safety, flow, and scalability
  • Eliminate hazards through design (not procedures)
  • Ensure facilities can support production rate increases
• Build a culture of:
  • Ownership over compliance
  • Speed with discipline
  • Proactive risk identification and mitigation
  • Data-driven decision making

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or related field
• 2+ years of experience implementing and overseeing environmental, health and safety programs
• 2+ years of experience managing infrastructure development and reliability (construction, facility expansion, asset management and maintenance)
• Experience operating in high-reliability industries (aerospace, defense, automotive, energy, etc.)

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional experience, with 2+ years leading and managing teams
• Experience scaling from prototype → production (NPI through rate production)
• Deep experience with:
• Cal/OSHA regulations
• 40 CFR Parts 260-279 Hazardous Waste Management
• Asset Life cycle and budgeting
• Managing people and vendors
• Familiarity with:
• AS9100 / ISO9001 frameworks (without over-reliance on bureaucracy)
• Digital quality systems / MES integration
• Demonstrated ability to:
• Stand up EHS and Facility Management organizations from scratch
• Drive measurable improvements in yield, reliability, and cost