Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) Specialist Manager

Responsibilities

• Develop and support a comprehensive empowered safety culture within a dynamic research and development environment.
• Build administer and instruct safety training procedures and compliance systems tailored to the various internal audiences.
• Partner with internal teams including facilities lab management supply chain human resources finance and technical teams to achieve objectives and maintain a safe and compliant workplace.
• Proactively engage with employees at all levels to better understand their concerns and work hazards as well as facilitate all aspects of daily safe work conduct.
• Continually assess environment health and safety risks of Zap Energy operations and make recommendations to teams and company leaders.
• Provide technical expertise in occupational safety and health environmental compliance and sustainability.
• Drive thorough investigations for all incidents and accidents for all sites and ensures timely completion of corrective actions.
• Lead the team in developing effective root cause analysis and countermeasures.
• Keep up to date on regulatory requirements and industry trends.
• Proactively plan for and share considerations with leadership for future facilities processes equipment suppliers and materials.
• Engage with relevant consultants external agencies and other regulatory organizations at the local state and national level.

Qualifications

Manager - Required:

• Certificate Diploma or Degree in Environmental Health and Safety or related field
• 10 years of total EHS experience
• 3 years of experience managing an EHS team
• 5 years of EHS experience in a corporate laboratory / research and development (R&D) environment
• Demonstrated ability to develop deploy and administer EHS Programs in R&D organizations
• Excellent verbal written and customer service skills

Specialist Required:

• Certificate Diploma or Degree in Environmental Health and Safety or related field
• 7 years of total EHS experience
• 5 years of EHS experience in a corporate laboratory / research and development (R&D) environment
• Demonstrated ability to develop deploy and administer EHS Programs in R&D organizations
• Excellent verbal written and customer service skills

Preferred:

• Direct experience successfully managing the following hazard classes in corporate laboratory / R&D environments:
• • High Voltage Including arc flash
  • Functional Safety
  • Thermal / Hot Work
  • Chemical Including reactive caustic metals
  • Lasers
  • Compressed gases
  • Pressure vessels
  • Confined spaces
  • Radiological

About You:

• Strong positive energy and enjoy driving improvement in the safety and well-being of others
• Highly organized excellent attention to detail and excited by new and ambitious assignments
• Demonstrate a high degree of professionalism and integrity
• Have a team-mindset and actively collaborate respectfully communicate and be open to new ideas
• A self-starter and possess ability to coordinate and lead safety efforts with minimal direction
• Thrive in a fast-paced dynamic environment

While doing meaningful work is rewarding in itself Zap Energy also offers the following:

• Competitive compensation
• Matching retirement contributions
• Premium health insurance
• Flexible vacation and paid company holidays

Zap Energy is building a low-cost compact and scalable fusion energy platform that confines and compresses plasma without the need for expensive and complex magnetic coils. Zaps sheared-flow-stabilized Z-pinch technology offers the shortest potential path to commercially viable fusion and requires orders of magnitude less capital than traditional approaches. Zap Energy has over 60 employees in two facilities near Seattle and is backed by leading financial and strategic investors.

Zap Energy is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age ancestry color family or medical care leave gender identity or expression genetic information marital status medical condition national origin physical or mental disability political affiliation protected veteran status race religion sex (including pregnancy) sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws and regulations.

Please contact with any questions.

Required Experience:

Manager