Environmental Health and Safety Specialist

Zipline is the world’s largest and most experienced drone delivery service. We are on a mission to serve all humans equally by ensuring access to food, medicine and essential goods anytime, anywhere. We design, build, and operate the world’s largest autonomous logistics system, delivering critical supplies quickly and reliably. Today, Zipline operates on four continents, makes a delivery somewhere in the world every 30 seconds, and has completed millions of deliveries to date, including blood, vaccines, medical supplies, food, and retail products.

Our customers include the world’s largest and most prominent healthcare systems, governments, retailers, restaurants and global businesses who rely on us to save lives, reduce emissions, increase economic opportunity, and provide delivery from point A to point B as fast as possible. The drone is only 15% of what we’ve built to enable seamless, reliable, global operations.

Our system strengthens supply chains, reduces congestion, and gives people time back. With more than 140 million commercial autonomous miles safely flown, Zipline is redefining access to healthcare, consumer products, and food across the globe.

We operate at a global scale and are looking for practical problem solvers who thrive on real-world challenges and rapid growth. Our team is motivated by building systems that have a direct, meaningful impact on people’s lives and by scaling the future of logistics. We are seeking people who sculpt from first principles, enjoy facing adversity, and can do the impossible at record breaking speeds.

Zipline’s Manufacturing and Research teams are expanding laboratories, manufacturing, warehouse, and office spaces where cutting-edge drone technology is built, tested, and prepared for deployment. Keeping these environments safe and compliant enables reliable technology development and deployment.

Reporting to the EHS Manager, you will own day-to-day EHS program execution across these spaces. You will be accountable for job hazard assessments, safety training development and implementation, identifying and managing corrective-action closure, and assisting with emergency preparedness. Your primary job will be to ensure the safety of our Manufacturing and Research teams in a rapidly scaling environment.

• Investigate incidents, near misses, and safety observations; identify root causes and drive corrective actions to documented closure.

• Prioritize high-risk hazards and overdue corrective actions by severity, exposure, and compliance risk; escalate unresolved issues through the EHS Manager.

• Conduct inspections, audits, hazard assessments, JHAs, ergonomic evaluations, and new material or process reviews across laboratory, manufacturing, warehouse, and office areas.

• Build job- and space-specific training requirements; develop Docebo content with Manufacturing subject-matter experts and manage required certifications.

• Maintain EHS documentation for OSHA, Cal/OSHA, and applicable permitting agencies.

• Assist with overseeing EHS contractors, hazardous waste management, chemical inventories, and PPE allocation.

• Partner with Facilities on space planning, building-management projects, emergency preparedness, evacuation drills, and safe access to industrial and mechanical spaces.

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Occupational Safety, Industrial Hygiene, Environmental Science, or a related field, or equivalent practical