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Environmental, Health & Safety Specialist

Join AMP Sortation as a senior Environmental, Health & Safety Specialist to enhance safety culture and compliance in a growing tech-driven recycling company.

Location
Commerce City, Colorado, United States
Compensation
$95k–$110k/yr
Level
senior
Type
full time

Posted by employer 2 days ago

First seen on Joblaze 1 day ago

Last verified on the company career page 1 day ago

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What you'll build

  • Develop and implement a comprehensive health, safety and environmental program
  • Analyze and evaluate EHS performance across the company
  • Serve as EHS representative and partner with department leadership teams
  • Create local HSE playbooks
  • Conduct risk assessments and audit plans

Must have

  • Bachelor’s degree in Occupational Health and Safety or related discipline
  • 5+ years experience in health, safety, industrial hygiene and environmental programs
  • ASP or CSP Certification or willingness to obtain
  • OSHA 10 General Industry Certificate
  • Familiar with ISO 14001

Practical constraints

  • Up to 40% travel may be required

AI in the day-to-day

AMP is applying AI-powered sortation at scale to modernize the world's recycling infrastructure.

Requirements

Experience
5+ years
Education
Bachelor's degree

Not disclosed in this posting: work arrangement, visa sponsorship.

Benefits

401k Match Equity/Stock Options Paid Holidays Flexible Time Off Health Insurance

Joblaze summary

The Environmental, Health & Safety Specialist at AMP Sortation is responsible for developing and implementing comprehensive EHS policies and procedures across various operational areas, ensuring a culture of safety and compliance. This role requires expertise in environmental regulations and safety protocols, along with strong communication skills to engage stakeholders effectively. Ideal candidates will have over five years of relevant experience in complex manufacturing or engineering environments, along with a background in occupational health and safety. AMP is recognized for its innovative approach to recycling, making this position pivotal in fostering a safe workplace as the company c

Joblaze insights

  • Listed yesterday — first seen on Joblaze October 25, 2026. Last confirmed on AMP Sortation's careers page October 25, 2026.
  • Salary band is below the typical range for comparable tech roles (median ~$128,100).
  • Starts above 7% of 1250 comparable senior other roles in United States we track (median $144,000 across 185 companies).

Quick facts

What's the salary range?
AMP Sortation lists $95,000–$110,000 for this role.
How much experience is required?
At least 5 years of relevant experience for this Environmental, Health & Safety Specialist role.
What seniority level is this role?
AMP Sortation targets senior candidates for this position.
Is this full-time or contract?
Full-time for this Environmental, Health & Safety Specialist role at AMP Sortation.

From the original posting

AMP is applying AI-powered sortation at scale to modernize the world's recycling infrastructure and maximize the value in waste. AMP gives waste and recycling leaders the power to harness AI to reduce labor costs, increase resource recovery, and deliver more reliable operations. With hundreds of deployments across North America, Asia, and Europe, AMP’s technology offers a transformational solution to waste sortation and changes the fundamental economics of recycling.

Are you an experienced Environmental, Health, Safety Specialist? AMP Robotics is hiring a seasoned leader to provide hands-on Environmental, Health, Safety Specialist that will be actively involved and engaged in all operational aspects of our company. The EHS Specialist will collaborate the development, scaling and execution of our EHS policies and procedures affecting all operations including production, processing plants, engineering labs, installation activities at customer sites and service roles.

The candidate should have strong communication skills and be a master in gaining buy-in and commitment from various stakeholders in a variety of settings. This role will be a critical role to help ensure a safe and incident free culture is maintained, hazard awareness is on the forefront of all team members minds, and the wellbeing of our team members are top priority.

As our Environmental, Health, Safety Specialist, you will work to:

  • Collaborate in the development and implementation of a comprehensive health, safety and environmental program.
  • Analyzes and evaluates EHS performance across the company and all aspects of the operation and develop strategic improvement plans and goals to integrate improvement into business operations.
  • Serves as EHS representative and partner with individual department and site leadership teams across the organization to improve EHS performance
  • Serves as a subject matter expert in root cause analysis, incident investigations and is willing/able to teach/develop those skills across the company with respect to EHS
  • Creation of local HSE playbooks (safety policy, risk assessments, HSE plans, emergency response and preparedness plan) that can scale with AMP’s growth
  • Develop and deliver a comprehensive safety training program to all new hires and existing team members in a broad range of topics to include hazard identification, risk awareness, behavior-based safety programs, incident investigation, electrical safety training, powered industrial vehicles, non-standard process JHAs, LOTO and emergency response to name a few
  • Develop online and in person safety training materials to provide a continuous learning program for all employees, benchmarking for accuracy and providing mitigation when needed.
  • Supports injury and illness case management process and maintains relevant logs and documentation in coordination with Human Resources.
  • Conduct risk assessments and audit plans used to develop control measures to mitigate identified risks for all job sites
  • Actively support the development and realization of a “Zero Incident Culture”
  • Provide guidance and audit support when qualifying contractors and other 3rd party workers
  • Manage the environmental programs ensuring full compliance to local, state and federal permits and licenses are maintained
  • Design, plan and perform technical duties in the prevention, control and remediation of health hazards
  • Provide ergonomic and risk assessment guidance in production
  • Prepare and submit all regulatory reports including OSHA injury and illness reports, OSHA 300 injury log
  • Conduct in-house HSE inspections on facility, materials and equipment in order to identity and execute actions needed to maintain compliance standards
  • Maintain and update all posting procedures
  • Ensure compliance with all relevant legislation and internal policies and procedures
  • Investigate incidents, near misses, and accidents, and prepare reports as required
  • Monitor and audit health and safety performance, keeping accurate records
  • Keep up to date with changes in legislation and industry best practice
  • Liaise with external bodies such as regulatory authorities and insurance providers
  • Develop and deliver presentations on health and safety topics
  • Champion a positive health and safety culture within the organization

The successful candidate will have:

Required:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Occupational Health and Safety, Industrial Hygiene, Environmental Science or other related discipline
  • Working knowledge of Federal and state environmental and safety regulations.
  • 5+ years experience, with progressive responsibilities, supporting health, safety, industrial hygiene and environmental programs in a complex manufacturing, materials processing, field construction and engineering lab environment
  • ASP or CSP Certification or ability/willingness to obtain
  • Experience developing and deploying Emergency Response protocols and processes
  • OSHA 10 General Industry Certificate
  • Familiar with ISO 14001
  • Possesses a strong professional network with external agencies and industry associations
  • Ability to work effectively in an advisory capacity, to influence-manage stakeholders, internal and external peers
  • Proficient use of PC based applications (MS Office, Google suite, on-line training software (LMS) OSHA packages)
  • Willingness to support a flexible and demanding work schedule in various production and construction environments
  • Demonstrate a high level of professionalism, organizational abilities, high level of motivation and initiative
  • Possess a sense of urgency and demonstrates strong ownership
  • Ability to collaborate effectively with operations, engineering, executive team, service, customers, human resources, plant operations and project management
  • Ability to work in a fast-paced environment
  • Experience developing processes and procedures from scratch based on experience and education
  • Strong presentation and communication skills
  • While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to stand, walk, use hands and fingers, handle or feel, reach with hands and arms, climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl and talk and hear. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 45 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus, and ability to accurately see and label color.

Working Location(s):

  • Commerce City, CO

Compensation: $95,000 - $110,000

Equity Grant: The candidate selected for this role will be recommended for a stock option grant commensurate with the position and the candidate’s qualifications.

Travel Requirements:

  • Up to 40% travel may be required at times

AMP provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

Applicants who identify with a historically underrepresented group are encouraged to apply

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

This position is expected to stay open until Friday, November 20th. Please submit your application as soon as possible and no later than November 20th at 11:59pm.

Benefits Information:

  • Medical - The company covers between 78% to 100% of the premium for Cigna medical healthcare plans depending on the selection.
  • Dental, Vision, Short- and Long-Term Disability
  • Life Insurance: The company covers the cost of Basic Life / AD&D 1 x Salary, option to purchase additional through New York Life
  • Benefits start the day you start
  • HSA Eligible Health Plans, Company Monthly Contributions!
  • 401(k) retirement plan (non-matching)
  • FTO - Flexible Time Off
  • 6 Accrued Sick Days
  • Eight (8) paid holidays

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