• Lead Environment, Health and Safety across Anthropic's EMEA region as the company scales its footprint across the UK, Ireland, and continental Europe.
• Own the day-to-day EHS execution in the region while helping a small, growing team write the standards that make global EHS work at scale.
• Handle hands-on work including inspections, investigations, occupational health cases, committees, and training.
• Co-author EMEA-tuned versions of global EHS programmes to meet UK, Irish, and EU regulatory expectations.
• Partner closely with the US-based EHS Lead and in-region Workplace, Security, HR, and Legal teams.
📋 Job Requirements
• Have 7+ years of experience owning EHS for a region or serving as the lead in your geography.
• Have strong working knowledge of EHS regulatory frameworks across the UK and Ireland (HSE, HSA), and ideally additional EU jurisdictions such as France, Germany, or the Netherlands.
• Have working knowledge of fire safety regulation and compliance across Europe, including Fire Risk Assessments and duty-holder responsibilities.
• Be comfortable being the EHS expert in the room, translating regulatory requirements into clear decisions and pushing back when something is not safe.
• Be passionate about workplace EHS and bring that energy to the people you work with.
• Motivate and persuade others to collaborate, take action, and engage with EHS-related programmes.
• Be resilient and adaptable in fast-paced, dynamic environments, comfortable with ambiguity and able to prioritise when everything looks urgent.
• Write clear, useful SOPs, playbooks, and programme documents, and create engaging presentations and training content.
• Have hands-on experience with software tools for EHS incident reporting, risk assessment, learning management, and related functions.
🌟 Nice-to-have
• Hold a bachelor's degree in occupational health and safety, environmental science, or another EHS-related field.
• Hold a NEBOSH National or International Diploma in Occupational Health and Safety.
• Be a chartered or graduate member of IOSH (CMIOSH, GradIOSH), CIEH, or a comparable Irish/EU equivalent.
• Be familiar with ISO 45001 (Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems) and ISO 14001 (Environmental Management Systems).
• Have experience with French CSE/CHSCT processes, DUERP, or German BetrSichV requirements.
• Have a background in occupational health, fire safety, or industrial hygiene.
• Have experience standing up EHS programmes for new offices or new countries.
• Have excellent computer skills and be quick to pick up new applications and systems at the user and/or administrator level.
🎯 Responsibilities
• Own EHS execution across EMEA sites, running onsite inspections, hazard and risk assessments, and ergonomic reviews on a regular cadence.
• Investigate workplace incidents, injuries, and illnesses and manage occupational health cases through their lifecycle in coordination with occupational health providers, HR, and Legal.
• Stand up and support health and safety committees and emergency response teams in line with each jurisdiction's requirements, including UK SRSCR, French CSE, and Irish safety reps.
• Engage with landlords, building management, and contractors to ensure shared environments are safe and meet Anthropic's standards.
• Co-build the EMEA versions of core EHS programmes covering emergency action plans, fire safety, ergonomics, contractor and vendor safety, occupational health, and training.
• Serve as the in-region owner for fire safety and fire compliance, coordinating Fire Risk Assessments, tracking remediation, and supporting duty-holder requirements under UK, Irish, and other European fire safety law.
• Lead internally-facing environmental health work including hazardous materials management, indoor air quality, water safety including Legionella, and lighting standards.
• Support new-country and new-office stand-ups in EMEA by running pre-opening EHS assessments, advising on design and fit-out, and getting local programmes in place before go-live.
• Deliver and coordinate EHS training to EMEA employees and manage EMEA EHS vendor relationships.
• Keep EHS documentation, registers, and reporting systems accurate and current for the region.
About Anthropic
😃 What Anthropic offers
• Receive an annual salary of £110k–£140k GBP.
• Work from the London office with a hybrid policy requiring at least 25% office time.
• Receive visa sponsorship with every reasonable effort made and an immigration lawyer retained to help.
• Receive competitive compensation and benefits with optional equity donation matching.
• Receive generous vacation and parental leave.
• Enjoy flexible working hours.
• Apply at any time, as applications are reviewed on a rolling basis with no deadline.
💖 What makes Anthropic unique
Anthropic's mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems that are safe and beneficial for users and society. The company is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems. Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco with offices in London.
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