Sr EHS Specialist, Stamping

Tesla’s Environmental Health, Safety and Security (EHS&S) team supports all Tesla Engineering, Manufacturing and Sales/Service/Delivery functions in our shared mission to accelerate to a sustainable tomorrow by being safe, fair and fun today. The EHS&S team uses human and organizational performance principles to foster an engaged, agile workforce who are focused on critical safeguard verification and innovative solutions to complex technical and organizational challenges. EHS&S supports Tesla’s people and environment-focused decision making using actionable metrics, world-class resources, and exceptional talent.

Tesla is seeking an ambitious EHS Specialist to support the Vehicle Manufacturing Operations at Gigafactory Texas. They will use human and organizational principles to drive ownership of safety, health and environmental impacts, with a focus on engagement, learning from events, training, and a systems-level problem solving.

You will be responsible for complex technical work across a broad range of EHS disciplines with an emphasis on reducing risk, empowering stakeholders, and doing the basics right. You will also ensure compliance with federal, state, and local environmental, health, and safety regulations, and conformance to internal, industry and consensus standards, as appropriate.

- Drive one or more manufacturing department EHS outcomes through leadership and employee engagement in alignment with the business and EHS strategies
- Actively work with factory stakeholders to ensure that Production and Factory changes result in improved controls of risks to health, safety and the environment
- Analyze event trends and use risk-assessment methods to identify continuous improvement projects that reduce injury, illness and environmental impact events
- Facilitate investigations from a Learning Teams approach, ensuring worker involvement and that preventative actions address system causes and not just individual behaviors
- Participate in pre-job planning and verification of controls/safeguards before new, high risk, and non-standard work begins
- Partner with EHS specialties (Environmental, Construction Safety, Equipment Safety, EHS Systems and Tools, EHS Training, etc.) as needed to ensure effective service delivery
- Develop new procedures, inspections, trainings, or reports as needed. Deliver EHS training and facilitate workshops with onsite teams

- Bachelor’s Degree in Safety Engineering, Industrial Hygiene, Environmental Health or or equivalent experience
- 2+ years work experience as an environmental, health or safety professional, preferably in a manufacturing, oil & gas, construction, or similar workplace
- Experience supporting EHS program development, training all levels of personnel, and influencing/managing change to reduce risk and improve outcomes
- Experience with hazard analysis methods, hazard communication, powered industrial vehicle safety, OSHA compliance, event/incident investigation and learnings, and corrective action management
- Familiarity with industrial hygiene, industrial ergonomics, machine safety, environmental compliance processes
- Ability to work effectively and efficiently under pressure while managing competing demands and deadlines