Environmental Health & Safety Manager

About Helion

We are a fusion power company based in Everett, WA, with the mission to build the world's first fusion power plant, enabling a future with unlimited clean electricity. Our vision is a world with clean, reliable, and affordable energy for everyone.

Since Helion's founding in 2013, we have raised over $600 million from investors such as Sam Altman, Mithril, and Capricorn Investment Group to propel us forward. Our last prototype, Trenta, completed 10,000 high-power pulses and reached plasma temperatures of 100 million degrees Celsius (9 keV).

Now we are working toward Polaris, which will be the first machine to demonstrate electricity from fusion, making this a great time to join Helion! Bring your skills, experiences, and determination to make a difference in the world. Together, we can make a future with unlimited clean electricity from fusion a reality.

What You Will Be Doing:

As Helion's Environmental Health & Safety Manager, you will take ownership of all safety programs in our fabrication and manufacturing facilities that ensure the rapid delivery of fusion electricity to the world. You will work with technical partners to define, build, and scale the processes and frameworks for Helion's safety culture. You will report directly to our VP of People & Workplace Operations at our headquarters in Everett, WA.

You Will:

• Build and Lead Helion's Culture of Safety

• Promote and inspire a shared mindset of communal responsibility for upholding safety practices in our daily operations, establish our Safety Committee to facilitate communication and collaborative programs to ensure the well-being of all employees, and lead our safety culture to emphasize the significance of preventing accidents and injuries to create a safe and healthy workplace

• Own Evaluation, Iteration, and Elevation of our Safety Programs

• Conduct comprehensive evaluations to pinpoint process improvements and create roadmaps for implementation; develop accountability metrics to track compliance and corrective action plans for deficiencies; and enforce compliance with regulatory guidelines including OSHA, Electrical installations and testing, Contractor management, Incident investigation, and Hazmat management

• Drive Implementation and Uphold our Safety Practices

• Walk the floor to ensure compliance and solve any problems in real-time; guide and support development of job hazard analyses, high-risk work instructions, and materials handling processes; maintain documentation including hazmat storage, equipment maintenance and training, internal material handling, and electrical certifications

Required Skills:

• 10+ years of experience working in a manufacturing or R&D environment

• 5+ years of experience working in a safety management capacity

• Expertise with safety policy implementation and management

The pay range for this position is $115k-150k. This pay range may be inclusive of several career levels and will be narrowed based on several factors, including your experience and qualifications.

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Benefits and Compensation

Our total compensation package includes generous equity and benefits, including but not limited to:

• Medical, Dental, and Vision plans for employees and their families

• 31 Days of PTO (21 vacation days and 10 sick days)

• 13 Paid holidays, plus company-wide winter break

• Up to 5% employer 401(k) match

• Short term disability, long term disability, and life insurance

• Paid parental leave and support (up to 16 weeks)

• Annual wellness stipend

NOTE: Underrepresented people are less likely to apply unless they meet 100% of the job's requirements. We believe in hiring people, not checklists, and encourage you to apply even if you do not check all of the boxes. If this job isn't the one, we have many other openings that may be a fit.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, or genetic information. If we reach out to you to begin an interview process, we will also ask if you require any reasonable accommodation at that time.