Environmental, Health & Safety Specialist

ampsortation; Commerce City (CO); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

AMP Robotics is hiring a seasoned Environmental, Health, and Safety Specialist to lead hands-on EHS activities across production, labs, and customer sites. The role focuses on developing, scaling, and executing safety policies that foster a zero-incident culture and safe operations.

The candidate will collaborate with multiple departments to drive hazard awareness, deliver training, and ensure compliance with local, state, and federal regulations while prioritizing team wellbeing.

Qualifications

• Strong communication skills and ability to gain buy-in from stakeholders.
• Experience developing and implementing health, safety and environmental programs.
• Experience with root-cause analysis and incident investigations.
• Ability to develop training and playbooks for EHS.
• Knowledge of OSHA reporting and regulatory requirements.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate in the development and implementation of a comprehensive health, safety and environmental program.
• Analyze EHS performance across the company and develop strategic improvement plans to integrate into operations.
• Serve as EHS representative and partner with site leadership to improve performance.
• Create local HSE playbooks (policies, risk assessments, plans) that scale with AMP's growth.
• Develop and deliver safety training to new hires and existing staff on hazard identification and safety topics.
• Support injury/illness case management and maintain logs with HR.

Job description

AMP is applying AI-powered sortation at scale to modernize the world's recycling infrastructure and maximize the value in waste. AMP gives waste and recycling leaders the power to harness AI to reduce labor costs, increase resource recovery, and deliver more reliable operations. With hundreds of deployments across North America, Asia, and Europe, AMP's technology offers a transformational solution to waste sortation and changes the fundamental economics of recycling. Headquartered in Louisville, Colorado, the Denver Post and BuiltIn Colorado have recognized AMP as one of the state's top workplaces. AMP has operations and career opportunities outside of Atlanta, Cleveland, Portsmouth, Virginia, and Europe. We're fostering an environment where passionate individuals can grow and create impact. We seek unconventional thinkers to join our mission to enable a world without waste; at AMP, your contributions have meaning and can spur change. With backing from top-tier investors and national recognition including North American Cleantech Company of the Year, we're always seeking ways to better our operations, raising the bar on innovation, and looking to collaborate and improve in what we do. Learn more at AMPSortation.com.

Are you an experienced Environmental, Health, Safety Specialist?

AMP Robotics is hiring a seasoned leader to provide hands‑on Environmental , Health, Safety Specialist that will be actively involved and engaged in all operational aspects of our company. The EHS Specialist will collaborate the development, scaling and execution of our EHS policies and procedures affecting all operations including production, processing plants, engineering labs, installation activities at customer sites and service roles.

The candidate should have strong communication skills and be a master in gaining buy‑in and commitment from various stakeholders in a variety of settings. This role will be a critical role to help ensure a safe and incident free culture is maintained, hazard awareness is on the forefront of all team members' minds, and the wellbeing of our team members are top priority.

As our Environmental, Health, Safety Specialist , you will work to:

• Collaborate in the development and implementation of a comprehensive health, safety and environmental program.
• Analyzes and evaluates EHS performance across the company and all aspects of the operation and develop strategic improvement plans and goals to integrate improvement into business operations.
• Serves as EHS representative and partner with individual department and site leadership teams across the organization to improve EHS performance
• Serves as a subject matter expert in root cause analysis, incident investigations and is willing/able to teach/develop those skills across the company with respect to EHS
• Creation of local HSE playbooks (safety policy, risk assessments, HSE plans, emergency response and preparedness plan) that can scale with AMP's growth
• Develop and deliver a comprehensive safety training program to all new hires and existing team members in a broad range of topics to include hazard identification, risk awareness, behavior-based safety programs, incident investigation, electrical safety training, powered industrial vehicles, non-standard process JHAs, LOTO and emergency response to name a few
• Develop online and in person safety training materials to provide a continuous learning program for all employees, benchmarking for accuracy and providing mitigation when needed.
• Supports injury and illness case management process and maintains relevant logs and documentation in coordination with Human Resources.
• Conduct risk assessments and audit plans used to develop control measures to mitigate identified risks for all job sites
• Actively support the development and realization of a "Zero Incident Culture"
• Provide guidance and audit support when qualifying contractors and other 3rd party workers
• Manage the environmental programs ensuring full compliance to local, state and federal permits and licenses are maintained
• Design, plan and perform technical duties in the prevention, control and remediation of health hazards
• Provide ergonomic and risk assessment guidance in production
• Prepare and submit all regulatory reports including OSHA injury and illness reports, OSHA 300 injury log
• Conduct in‑house HSE inspections on facility, materials and equipment in order to identity and execute actions needed to maintain compliance standards
• Maintain and update all posting procedures
• Ensure compliance with all relevant legislation and internal policies and procedures
• Investigate incidents, near misses, and accidents, and prepare reports as required
• Monitor and audit health and safety performance, keeping accurate records
• Keep up to date with changes in legislation and industry best practice
• Liaise with external bodies such as regulatory authorities and insurance providers
• Develop and deliver presentations on health and safety topics

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