AI for EHS Specialist: Scale Safety & Risk Judgement

Ideagen; Nottingham; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Ideagen is building AI for environments where safety, accuracy and professional judgement truly matter. As an AI EHS Specialist, you’ll apply your real‑world EHS experience to shape how AI systems understand, assess and respond to safety‑critical scenarios.

This role is designed for practitioners who have worked operationally - investigating incidents, managing permits, assessing risk, and making decisions that directly affect worker safety and now want to apply that expertise at scale.

Qualifications

• Proven operational EHS experience, such as incident investigation, risk assessment, permit‑to‑work systems, or similar frontline safety responsibilities
• A recognised EHS qualification (e.g. NEBOSH National General Certificate or equivalent) with evidence of applied, real‑world use
• Strong written communication skills, with the ability to clearly explain why an EHS response is safe, correct, or unsafe
• Comfortable performing detailed evaluation work at scale while maintaining accuracy and consistency
• Confident applying professional judgement in ambiguous or high‑risk situations
• Willing to challenge outputs that sound credible but could compromise worker safety
• An interest in contributing to AI used in safety‑critical environments, even without a technical background

Responsibilities

• Label EHS training data in line with defined annotation guidelines, including incident classification, permit‑to‑work validation, SIF severity assessment, and hazard tagging
• Evaluate AI model outputs during testing cycles, scoring responses against expert rubrics and clearly documenting what the correct EHS response should be and why
• Test AI capabilities against realistic, high‑risk operational scenarios using the standard a competent EHS professional would apply in practice
• Contribute to EHS red‑team testing by identifying edge cases, unusual incident patterns, regulatory overlaps, and scenarios likely to expose model weaknesses
• Support the curation of the EHS regulatory corpus by identifying gaps, flagging outdated guidance, and recommending authoritative sources
• Participate in calibration sessions to maintain consistency across labelling and evaluation decisions, resolving differences through clear, evidence‑based reasoning
• Work closely with AI engineers and domain leads, translating practitioner feedback into concrete improvements in model behaviour
• Help ensure the AI system doesn’t just sound plausible, but genuinely supports safe and responsible decision‑making

Skills

EHS experience

Regulatory knowledge

Written communication

Risk assessment

Permit-to-work

Incident investigation

Professional judgement

Education

NEBOSH National General Certificate

Job description

Ideagen is building AI for environments where safety, accuracy and professional judgement truly matter. As an AI EHS Specialist, you’ll apply your real‑world EHS experience to shape how AI systems understand, assess and respond to safety‑critical scenarios.

This role is designed for practitioners who have worked operationally - investigating incidents, managing permits, assessing risk, and making decisions that directly affect worker safety and now want to apply that expertise at scale.