EHS AI Specialist: Shape Safe, Scalable Decisions

Ideagen; Ruddington; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 64,000; Full time

Job summary

Ideagen is seeking an experienced EHS Specialist to help shape AI-enabled safety systems. You’ll apply frontline EHS expertise to guide how AI models classify incidents, assess SIF risk, validate permits‑to‑work and interpret regulatory requirements.

You don’t need prior AI experience; operational credibility, sound judgement and rigorous evaluation are essential to ensure safe and responsible decision‑making in safety‑critical environments.

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• Support the curation of the EHS regulatory corpus by identifying gaps, flagging outdated guidance, and recommending authoritative sources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

Operational EHS experience

NEBOSH qualification

Written communication

Detail-oriented

Professional judgement

Interest in AI safety

Education

NEBOSH National General Certificate or equivalent

Job description

Ideagen is seeking an experienced EHS Specialist to help shape AI-enabled safety systems. You’ll apply frontline EHS expertise to guide how AI models classify incidents, assess SIF risk, validate permits‑to‑work and interpret regulatory requirements.

You don’t need prior AI experience; operational credibility, sound judgement and rigorous evaluation are essential to ensure safe and responsible decision‑making in safety‑critical environments.