Lead EHS & Facilities Engineer

- 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

- 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

- Ensure new and existing sites meet safety, environmental, and operational requirements before production

- Define standards for commissioning, qualification, and ongoing certification

- Define contractor and vendor safety qualification and performance systems

- Establish onboarding, auditing, and accountability mechanisms for all third-party work

- Drive continuous improvement in contractor safety and compliance

- Eliminate single points of failure in critical infrastructure (power, ventilation, fire protection, etc.)

- Build redundancy and resilience into facilities supporting mission-critical production

- Lead root cause and corrective action (RCCA) processes for safety incidents and facility failures

- Ensure rapid containment, deep analysis, and permanent corrective actions

- Ensure timely, accurate reporting and closure of all safety and environmental events

- Maintain full compliance with applicable regulations (OSHA, EPA, international equivalents)

- Implement leading and lagging indicators (TRIR, near misses, downtime, MTBF)

- Seek to automate reporting and critical information gaps where possible

- Recruit, develop, and retain top-tier EHS and Facilities talent

- 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.)

- 5+ years of professional experience, with 2+ years leading and managing teams

- Experience scaling from prototype → production (NPI through rate production)

- AS9100 / ISO9001 frameworks (without over-reliance on bureaucracy)

- Stand up EHS and Facility Management organizations from scratch

- Drive measurable improvements in yield, reliability, and cost

- Experience working tightly with manufacturing engineering and design teams in fast-paced environments