Environmental Health and Safety Specialist

Cargill is seeking an Environmental Health and Safety Specialist in Plymouth, MN, to ensure compliance with environmental, health, and safety regulations. The role involves developing and maintaining safety processes, leading incident investigations, preparing for audits, and training staff. Candidates should have a Bachelor's degree and at least 2 years of relevant experience. The position does not offer relocation assistance.
Cargill’s size and scale allows us to make a positive impact in the world. Our purpose is to nourish the world in a safe, responsible and sustainable way. We are a family company providing food, ingredients, agricultural solutions and industrial products that are vital for living. We connect farmers with markets so they can prosper. We connect customers with ingredients so they can make meals people love. And we connect families with daily essentials — from eggs to edible oils, salt to skincare, feed to alternative fuel. Our 160,000 colleagues, operating in 70 countries, make essential products that touch billions of lives each day. Join us and reach your higher purpose at Cargill.
Job Purpose and Impact

The Environmental Health and Safety Specialist will provide expertise to ensure compliance regarding environmental, health and safety regulations. In this role, you will help develop, implement and maintain processes and programs that comply with federal, state and local regulations and requirements. You will lead in a low complexity facility or support a higher complexity facility and monitor and handle up to three highly hazardous processes, low to high serious injuries and fatalities, potential serious environmental events or sites with low to high maturity.

Key Accountabilities
• Implement and handle processes and systems for environmental health and safety hazard identification and risk management.
• Create effective emergency response plan, train workforce and coordinate test plans on a defined frequency and validate emergency action plan.
• Participate in incident investigations based on incident classification in partnership with specialists internally and externally or regulatory authorities to identify the root cause and help prevent recurrence.
• Implement and execute controls and programs and ensure they work as planned.
• Prepare for audits, governmental inspections and customer visits and identify data and reports needed to monitor performance and compliance against goals.
• Support appropriate training content and delivery mode, in line with global and regional requirements, conduct gap assessment to identify training needs and adjust curriculum to reflect site specific needs.
• Understand risks applicable to contractor and external service providers, implement, monitor and evaluate approved processes to control environmental health and safety risks with contractors.
• Independently solve moderately complex issues with minimal supervision, while escalating more complex issues to appropriate staff.
• Other duties as assigned

Position Information
• Relocation assistance will not be provided for this position.

Qualifications

Minimum Required
• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience
• In depth knowledge of legislation and business processes in environmental health and safety systems, ecology and environmental protection, industrial safety.
• Minimum requirement of 2 years of relevant work experience. Typically reflects 3 years or more of relevant experience.

Preferred
• Knowledge of international instruments aimed at reducing injuries (near miss, observation, risk assessment).
• Ability to communicate and collaborate with diverse groups in a large organization.
• Experience with environmental health and safety management systems.
• Experience in organizing safety management system for specialists of contracting organizations.
• OSHA knowledge
• Knowledge of Minnesota Environmental regulations

Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Vet.