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Overview
OpenAI is seeking an Environmental Health & Safety Lead to establish and drive EHS strategy across its data center infrastructure portfolio, ensuring safety and environmental considerations are embedded in projects. OpenAI’s Industrial Compute organization is building the infrastructure required to support the next generation of AI at unprecedented scale. Through a combination of strategic partnerships and self-built campuses, we are developing and operating large-scale data center infrastructure across power, cooling, networking, compute, construction, and site operations.
What you'll do
- •Develop and own EHS strategy, standards, programs, and operating mechanisms across OpenAI’s data center and compute infrastructure portfolio.
- •Establish scalable EHS requirements for site development, design, construction, commissioning, equipment installation, and ongoing data center operations.
- •Partner with engineering and infrastructure delivery teams to identify and mitigate EHS risks during site selection, design development, construction planning, and project execution.
- •Develop risk assessment frameworks for high-hazard activities and environments, including electrical systems, high-voltage infrastructure, construction activities, lifting and rigging, energized work, confined spaces, hazardous materials, fire protection, industrial equipment, and commissioning activities.
- •Establish EHS requirements and performance expectations for developers, general contractors, engineering firms, equipment vendors, and other external partners.
- •Build mechanisms for measuring EHS performance, including leading and lagging indicators, audits, inspections, incident reporting, corrective actions, and executive reporting.
- •Lead investigations of significant incidents, near misses, and high-potential events, identifying systemic root causes and driving corrective and preventive actions.
- •Develop and maintain emergency preparedness and response frameworks for critical infrastructure environments, partnering with security, facilities, operations, and local emergency response organizations.
- •Provide technical EHS guidance during construction and commissioning activities, including review of construction execution plans, method statements, job hazard analyses, and high-risk work plans.
- •Partner with environmental and sustainability teams to integrate environmental compliance and stewardship requirements into infrastructure development and operations.
- •Establish governance processes to ensure EHS requirements are consistently implemented across a geographically distributed portfolio and through third-party operators and contractors.
- •Monitor regulatory developments and evolving industry standards and translate them into practical requirements for OpenAI’s infrastructure programs.
- •Support permitting, regulatory engagement, inspections, and compliance activities in partnership with legal, environmental, and site development teams.
- •Develop training, competency, and accountability programs that establish a strong EHS culture across employees, contractors, and infrastructure partners.
- •Serve as a senior EHS advisor to infrastructure leadership, escalating material risks and providing clear recommendations on risk acceptance, mitigation, and project readiness.
- •Identify opportunities to improve EHS through better engineering, automation, data, design standards, construction practices, and operational processes.