Operational Safety & EHS Lead

Bedrock Robotics Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Bedrock Robotics Inc. is seeking an Operational Safety & EHS Lead to own the programs that keep Bedrock's people, our partners' crews, and the public safe wherever our machines work.

Over the next twelve months, we will rapidly scale our machine count, partners, and sites while also adding net-new machine types and a next-generation platform - each new product line and machine brings new operational, retrofit and commissioning, and partner site considerations.

Qualifications

• Experience building and managing EHS programs.
• Knowledge of OSHA standards and state-plan requirements across multiple states.
• Experience leading incident investigations and CAPA.

Responsibilities

• Own the operational safety program for autonomous field operations and safety protocols.
• Develop and run pre-deployment site safety assessments and readiness gates.
• Lead job hazard analyses and operational risk assessments for testing and launches.
• Own management of change as new machine types and capabilities are introduced.
• Review and prepare Site Safety Plans for deployments.
• Translate field learnings into requirements for Engineering.

Skills

Operational safety

EHS knowledge

Incident management

Risk assessment

Job description

Join the team bringing advanced autonomy to the built world

At Bedrock, we're moving AI out of the lab and into the real world. Our team includes veterans who helped launch Waymo, scaled Segment to a $3.2B acquisition, and grew Uber Freight to $5B in revenue. Today, we're deploying autonomous systems on heavy construction equipment across the country, improving safety on job sites and accelerating schedules on critical infrastructure projects. We're not here debating the future of AI. We're deploying it in the real world. In just two years, we've raised $350M and achieved the first fully autonomous excavator deployments in construction. This is where algorithms meet steel-toed boots. You'll work alongside construction veterans and world-class engineers to solve physical-world problems that simulations can't touch. If you're ready to do meaningful work on hard problems, we'd love to have you join us.

ABOUT THE ROLE

We are seeking an Operational Safety & EHS Lead to own the programs that keep Bedrock's people, our partners' crews, and the public safe wherever our machines work. Over the next twelve months, we will rapidly scale our machine count, partners, and sites while also adding net-new machine types and a next-generation platform - each new product line and machine brings new operational, retrofit and commissioning, and partner site considerations.

This role will build and runs our inaugural EHS and Operational Safety programs, spanning human-autonomy interaction in the field, retrofit and maintenance work, test sites, and partner job sites. You'll own EHS compliance across a growing multi-state footprint and play a central role in incident management, investigation, and corrective action.

The Operational Safety & EHS Lead reports to the VP of Operations and partners closely with Fleet and Field Operations, Autonomy and System Safety Engineering, Hardware, Commercial, and People teams to make operational safety a critical input to deployment decisions.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

Operational Safety for Autonomous Field Operations

• Own the operational safety program for autonomous and remotely supervised machine operations, including exclusion zones, e-stop and remote-stop protocols, safety observer roles, and human-machine interaction rules on active job sites

• Develop and run pre-deployment site safety assessments and go / no-go readiness gates with Fleet, Deployment Operations, and System Safety Engineering

• Lead job hazard analyses (JHA / JSA) and operational risk assessments for testing, commissioning, retrofit, and new-site launches

• Own management of change as new machine types, hardware, and autonomy capabilities are introduced

• Review partner Site Safety Plans and prepare Site Safety Plans for Bedrock deployments

• Translate field learnings and safety-relevant events into feedback and requirements for Engineering

EHS Program & Regulatory Compliance

• Build and maintain Bedrock's written EHS programs (e.g., IIPP, lockout / tagout, heavy equipment operation, fall protection, crane & rigging, high-voltage battery safety, hazard communication, heat illness, emergency action)

• Ensure compliance with OSHA (29 CFR 1910 and 1926), Cal/OSHA, and state-plan requirements across 15+ states, including injury and illness recordkeeping and reporting

• Own environmental compliance for field and facility operations, including fuel and fluids handling, spill prevention and response, and waste management

• Monitor evolving regulations and industry practice for autonomous heavy equipment and advise leadership on implications

Incident Management & Investigation

• Own the incident, near-miss, and safety-observation reporting process, including triage, escalation, and communication to leadership and partners

• Lead root cause analyses for significant events and drive corrective and preventive actions (CAPA) to verified closure

• Partner with Autonomy Safety and Engineering to investigate autonomy-related events using machine data and logs, and trend events across the fleet

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