EH&S Specialist: Lead Safety, Compliance & Training

Environmental Health Safety Specialist; Cedar Rapids (IA); On-site; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Cargill is seeking an Environmental Health and Safety Specialist based in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The role leads and maintains EHS and process safety management systems at low-to-medium complexity facilities, ensuring compliance with company policy and regulatory requirements while promoting a strong safety culture.

You will collaborate with the EHS Manager, contractors, and regional teams to manage permits, training, and incident response, while driving continuous improvement and alignment with

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Support the Environmental Health Safety Manager in facilitating 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, adjust 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

Education

Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience

Job description

Cargill is seeking an Environmental Health and Safety Specialist based in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The role leads and maintains EHS and process safety management systems at low-to-medium complexity facilities, ensuring compliance with company policy and regulatory requirements while promoting a strong safety culture.

You will collaborate with the EHS Manager, contractors, and regional teams to manage permits, training, and incident response, while driving continuous improvement and alignment with