EHSS Engineer
About The Position
QuantumScape is seeking a practical, collaborative EHSS Engineer to join their team. This role is crucial for strengthening safety, environmental, sustainability, and training programs within a fast-paced R&D and manufacturing environment. The ideal candidate will be adaptable, detail-oriented, and capable of working across departments to ensure safe and compliant daily operations. Success requires strong technical judgment, personal integrity, sound organization, and a proactive approach to problem-solving, driving corrective actions, supporting employees, and maintaining a clean, safe, healthy, and compliant workplace.
Requirements
- Undergraduate degree in chemistry, engineering, or related fields.
- Excellent written and verbal communication and collaboration skills with all levels of personnel.
- Organizational skills with attention to detail and the ability to work under general supervision.
- Ability to deal with confidential information in a professional manner.
- Must demonstrate personal integrity and high ethical standards.
- Must be able to work in a fast-changing environment with Facilities, Hardware, and R&D leaders, and staffing at all levels.
- Approach complex problems by actively seeking information and new ideas from a variety of sources, consistently looking for novel ways to solve problems, and mastering unfamiliar information, tasks, and situations quickly and effectively.
Nice To Haves
- Experience working within battery or automotive operations and/or manufacturing.
- Experience managing hazardous waste
- Strong people skills.
- Experience with environmental audits, ISO 14000, TSCA compliance, IATA, BAAQMD compliance, waste minimization, sustainability
Responsibilities
- Support the maintenance of EHSS programs to ensure compliance, injury prevention, and risk mitigation.
- Participate in or lead regular area inspections, document corrective actions, and track to closure.
- Coordinate and/or deliver EHSS training.
- Conduct daily inspections to ensure safety and compliance objectives are met and the workplace remains clean, safe, and healthy.
- Coordinate vendors to perform onsite tasks.
- Monitor hazardous waste handling and storage.
- Take effective steps to ensure that all required records are prepared and maintained.
- Conduct and document regular inspections of safety equipment. Restock safety supplies as needed.
- May participate in regulatory inspections or assist in investigation and preparation of reports on injuries.
- Support development and completion of environmental/sustainability metrics.
- Actively participate in Emergency Response Team and Safety Committee activities.
- Communicate task completion status both verbally and in writing.
Benefits
- annual bonus
- generous RSU/Equity package
- employee paid health care
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
