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Senior Manager, EHS - Robotics

OpenAI· Workplace
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Hybrid (San Francisco)$203k - $225k + equityFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Senior EHS leadership role focused on robotics operations across multiple sites, building scalable safety systems and partnering across Robotics, Engineering, Operations, Facilities, and other functions to enable safe, rapid growth.

Responsibilities

  • 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.

Qualifications

  • 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 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.

Skills

Required:EHS leadership in robotics/advanced manufacturingRegulatory compliance (OSHA/Cal/OSHA)Incident investigation and root-cause analysis

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts
  • Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit)
  • 401(k) retirement plan with employer match
  • Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents), plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)
  • Paid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees
  • 13+ paid company holidays, and multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year for focus and recharge, plus paid sick or safe time
  • Mental health and wellness support
  • Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
  • Annual learning and development stipend
  • Daily meals in our offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible
  • Relocation support for eligible employees
  • Additional taxable fringe benefits, such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends
Last updated Sep 17, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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