Health
and Safety Specialist - Blair, NE 68008
Cargill
Want to build a stronger, more
sustainable future and cultivate your career? Join Cargill's global team of
160,000 employees who are committed to safe, responsible and sustainable ways
to nourish the world. This position is in Cargill’s food ingredients and
bio-industrial business, where we anticipate trends around taste, nutrition
and safety to innovate and provide solutions to manufacturers, retailers and
foodservice companies.
JOB PURPOSE AND IMPACT
The Environmental Health and
Safety Specialist is a subject matter authority that complies with
environmental, health and safety regulations. In this role, you will lead, at
low-to-medium complex facility, or help lead, at high complex facility, the
implementation, execution and maintenance of the environmental, health and
safety and process safety management systems. You will be responsible for
in-depth understanding and application of safe, compliant operational
practices and demonstrate compliance with company policy, work processes,
programs and standards.
KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES
- Support
the plant manager in facilitating the community and governmental
interaction and the external reputation.
- Support
contractor environmental, health and safety requirements during
construction phase and help test and evaluate environmental, health and
safety performance according to design during project startup phase.
- Partner
with regional domain and country environmental, health and safety 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, adjusting curriculum to reflect site specific needs and deliver
training.
- Partner
with key site or project leaders to integrate and operationalize
environmental, health and safety programs and drive 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
targets and 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
Relocation assistance will not be
provided for this position.
Qualifications
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
- Bachelor’s
degree in a related field or equivalent experience
- Minimum
of two years of related work experience
- Working
knowledge of Environment, Health & Safety industry practices and
standards
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Experience
in implementation and application of EHS protocols, tools and systems,
risk assessment methods, and concept of engineering controls
- Experience
in creating local tools and work instructions to standardize routine
work and simplify compliance demonstration and reporting
- Ergonomic
experience
- Basic
business acumen and the ability to partner and communicate effectively
with business counterparts
- Solid
working knowledge of food safety industry practices and standards
- Strong
scientific and mathematical knowledge
- Confirmed
ability to deliver processes effectively to optimize business resources
Equal Opportunity Employer,
including Disability/Vet.
Job Safety/Environmental Health
Primary Location US-NE-Blair
Schedule Full-time
Job Type Standard
Shift Day Job
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