Environmental Health & Safety Manager

What You'll Do Own the EH&S program: build it, run it, and keep improving it as the company scales

Get into the details of our processes (prepreg layup, cure, machining, 3D printing, bonding, finishing) and lead hazard analyses, JHAs, and risk assessments for new and changing equipment, materials, and processes before they hit the floor

Design practical controls for carbon fiber and composite dust, resin and solvent exposure, and other industrial hygiene risks, including dust collection, ventilation, exposure monitoring, and PPE

Support air quality compliance with AQMD by providing the underlying data our permits require, such as VOC and particulate emissions, material usage, and monitoring results. Handle all required recordkeeping and reporting and maintain a working knowledge of applicable air regulations.

Stand up and maintain our hazardous waste program: characterize waste streams (uncured prepreg, resins, adhesives, solvents, contaminated consumables), manage accumulation, labeling, and storage, coordinate vendors and manifests, and meet EPA, DTSC, and local CUPA requirements

Build and run the safety programs that matter for our shop, including IIPP, Hazard Communication, LOTO, machine guarding, respiratory protection, hearing conservation, forklift and crane safety, heat illness prevention, emergency response, and workplace violence prevention

Own Cal/OSHA recordkeeping and compliance paperwork (300, 300A, and 301 logs, training records, written programs, inspections) so we're audit ready at all times

Support product compliance for REACH, RoHS, and California Proposition 65, including material declarations, supplier data, and customer requests

Lead incident and near miss investigations with real root cause analysis, and drive corrective actions to closure

Train our team and build safety into how work actually gets done, partnering with technicians, engineers, and leadership so programs get adopted, not just written

Serve as our primary point of contact for regulators, auditors, insurers, and customer EH&S requests

What We're Looking For Be awesome! Be the kind of person you want to work with!

5+ years of hands-on EH&S experience in manufacturing, ideally composites, aerospace, or another environment with chemicals, dust, and heavy equipment

A technical background (degree in engineering, chemistry, industrial hygiene, environmental science, or a related field, or equivalent experience) and the curiosity to understand our processes down to the details

Working knowledge of Cal/OSHA (Title 8) and federal OSHA (29 CFR 1910) requirements

Experience with air permitting and compliance, ideally with SCAQMD or another California air district

Hands-on experience running hazardous waste programs, including characterization, accumulation, manifests, and generator requirements under RCRA and California DTSC rules

A track record of standing up real safety programs from scratch and maintaining the documentation that keeps a site compliant

Familiarity with REACH, RoHS, and Prop 65, or the ability to get up to speed quickly

A partnership mindset: you get results by earning buy-in from the people doing the work, not by policing them

Good judgment about priorities: you focus on the risks that can seriously hurt people or the business, and right-size everything else

Comfort moving fast with imperfect information and building lean, practical systems that fit a startup instead of copying a big-company playbook

Bonus Points Experience with prepreg composites, autoclaves, or controlling carbon fiber machining dust

Experience setting up EH&S at a startup or a new, rapidly growing facility

Industrial hygiene sampling and exposure assessment experience

Professional certifications such as CSP, CIH, CHMM, or ASP

Experience supporting aerospace and defense customer EH&S audits or flow-down requirements

Experience with EH&S software, or building simple digital tools to replace paper-based processes