Environmental Health & Safety Lead

Required

• Astro Mechanica is looking for a hands-on Environmental Health & Safety Lead to own safety for our test operations first and build the EHS function from there. You will work directly with engineering, test, manufacturing, facilities, and leadership to make high-energy work — combustion testing, fuels, high-pressure systems, rotating equipment, and high voltage — safer, more repeatable, and easier to execute responsibly. This is not a desk-only compliance role: you will spend real time on the production floor, in labs, and at test sites, leading training, participating in test readiness reviews, verifying controls in the field, and solving problems in real time. You will build a proportionate EHS system that scales as we add people, equipment, facilities, and test activity. Your first priority is a safety baseline for our test site, then the permits and programs that support it.
• 7+ years of EHS experience in aerospace, defense, advanced manufacturing, energy, or other high-consequence hardware environments
• Proven track record standing up EHS programs from scratch or near scratch in a startup or rapidly scaling operation
• Ability to execute a defined safety plan yourself first and grow the function as the company scales; we are hiring an owner and doer before a department head
• Deep working knowledge of Cal/OSHA, including the Injury and Illness Prevention Program, and core programs such as LOTO, machine guarding, electrical safety, and industrial hygiene
• Hands-on experience with high-hazard operations, ideally testing of high-voltage, electricity-producing machines, along with combustion testing, pressure systems, fuels, or crane and rigging
• Experience securing permits and working with fire departments, CUPAs, air districts, and other AHJs
• Experience selecting and managing EHS consultants and training providers
• Sound judgment under pressure: you make the call when work is unsafe and help redesign it so it can proceed
• Aerospace propulsion or hot-fire test experience.
• Credentials such as CSP, CIH, CHMM, or HAZWOPER are a plus