Enviromental Health Safety Specialist

Environmental Health Safety Specialist

Cargill – Environmental Health Safety Specialist

Cargill is a family company dedicated to providing safe, responsible, and sustainable food and industrial products. Our purpose is to nourish the world in a safe and responsible way.

The Environmental Health Safety Specialist will lead the implementation, execution, and maintenance of the environmental, health and safety, and process safety management systems at low to medium complex facilities, or help lead at a high complex facility. In this role you will serve as subject‑matter authority for safe, compliant operational practices and demonstrate compliance with company policy, work processes, programs, and standards that meet regulatory requirements.

• Support the plant manager in facilitating community and governmental interactions and external reputation.
• Support contractor environmental, health and safety requirements during the construction phase and help test and evaluate EHS performance according to design during project start‑up phase.
• Partner with regional domain and country EHS to support management of site impact assessments, operating permits and construction permits.
• Support suitable training content and delivery mode, in line with global and regional requirements, conduct gap assessment to identify training needs, adjust curriculum to reflect site‑specific needs and deliver training.
• Partner with key site or project leaders to integrate and operationalize EHS programs and drive a culture of safety, compliance, and continuous improvement.
• Understand, localize and integrate company and legally required work processes, programs and controls into site‑level operating procedures, tools, and work instructions to standardize front‑line processes and monitor, analyze, and adjust for improved performance.
• Ensure strong alignment of goals, metrics and targets with plant vision and target, govern site performance targets together with plant and site leadership team, and consult on planning, issue and incident response and operational environment, health and safety and process safety compliance.
• Independently solve moderately complex issues with minimal supervision, while escalating more complex issues to appropriate staff.
• Other duties as assigned.

• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience.
• Minimum of 2 years of relevant work experience.

• Confirmed ability to deliver processes effectively to optimize business resources.
• Strong scientific and mathematical knowledge.
• Solid working knowledge of food safety industry practices and standards.
• Basic business acumen and ability to partner and communicate effectively with business counterparts.

• Location:
  
  Dayton, OH.
• Relocation will be provided.
• Work schedule:
  
  Dayshift M–F 8–5, on‑call rotation once a month, occasional work on weekends as needed.

Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Vet