Environmental Health and Safety Specialist

Ohio Ag Connection; Dayton (OH); On-site; USD 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Cargill is seeking an Environmental Health and Safety Specialist based in Dayton, OH. The role focuses on ensuring regulatory environmental compliance across operations, coordinating permits, and implementing EMS practices with operations and engineering teams.

The position requires at least 2 years of relevant experience, with preferred qualifications in handling incidents, remediation, and waste management, plus DOT Hazmat/HAZWOPR/RCRA training. M-F dayshift, on-site work.

Qualifications

• Minimum 2 years of experience in environmental health and safety roles.
• Experience with environmental permits and license management.
• Experience handling environmental incidents, remediation, and waste management is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Coordinates environmental permitting and licensing activities.
• Monitors emissions, effluents, waste, and resource efficiency programs.
• Collects and reports environmental data with proper documentation.
• Coordinates internal audits, external assessments, and regulatory inspections.
• Identifies environmental risks and implements corrective actions.
• Implements environmental management systems with operations and engineering teams.
• Delivers environmental training to ensure compliance practices.
• Standardizes environmental procedures and tools across operations.

Skills

Environmental compliance

Permitting & regulatory

Regulatory reporting

Job description

### Job Details#### Job Title:Environmental Health and Safety Specialist#### Location:,, ,#### Company:#### Industry Sector:#### Industry Type:#### Career Type:#### Job Type:Full Time#### Minimum Years Experience Required:N/A#### Salary:### Get Job Alerts**Career Type:****Country:** USAI agree to receive alerts from and to the .Your alert was created successfully.x## General Alert Saved* The listings below are jobs matching the criteria you've selected for your General Alert on.Criteria selected was:* General alert saved for .* General alert notifications will be sent weekly on Monday.* Please note that you can only have one general alert active at any given time. Creating a new general alert will override an existing general alert.* Visit the to manage your alerts# Environmental Health and Safety Specialist| Number of Years Experience: | Minimum Education Completed: | || Education Major / Discipline Category: | Most Recent / Current Occupation: | |Cargill is committed to providing food and agricultural solutions to nourish the world in a safe, responsible, and sustainable way. Sitting at the heart of the supply chain, we partner with farmers and customers to source, make and deliver products that are vital for living.Our 155,000 team members innovate with purpose, providing customers with life's essentials so businesses can grow, communities prosper, and consumers live well. With over 160 years of experience as a family company, we look ahead while remaining true to our values. We put people first. We reach higher. We do the right thing-today and for generations to come.**Job Purpose and Impact**The Environmental Health and Safety Specialist job provides technical consultation on environmental compliance in the assigned operations to ensure alignment with external environmental regulations and internal standards while minimizing environmental impacts. With limited supervision, this job coordinates environmental permits and licenses management, partners to handle environmental risks and implements programs related to emissions, waste, water and resource efficiency. This job maintains operational environmental performance and regulatory compliance and implements environmental management practices across assigned operations.**Key Accountabilities*** ENVIRONMENTAL COMPLIANCE & PERMITTING: Coordinates environmental permit and license management activities to support validity and compliance with local, regional and national environmental regulations.* ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING & RESOURCE EFFICIENCY: Monitors assigned environmental monitoring programs for emissions, effluents, waste, noise and other parameters, ensuring consistent implementation and alignment with regulatory requirements, permit conditions and internal standards and supports implementation of resource efficiency initiatives across assigned operations.* ENVIRONMENTAL REPORTING & DOCUMENTATION: Collects and consolidates environmental data, ensuring timely and accurate reporting and proper record keeping across operations.* ENVIRONMENTAL AUDITS & INSPECTIONS: Coordinates moderately complex internal audits, external assessments and regulatory inspections, tracking findings and follow up actions to closure.* ENVIRONMENTAL RISKS & INCIDENT MANAGEMENT: Identifies and evaluates environmental risks, investigates moderately complex incidents and implements corrective and preventive actions in the assigned region.* ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS IMPLEMENTATION: Implements environmental management systems to ensure procedures and controls are consistently applied and partners with operations and engineering teams to integrate environmental requirements into daily activities and projects.* ENVIRONMENTAL TRAINING & TECHNICAL GUIDANCE: Delivers environmental training to support consistent implementation of environmental procedures, compliance requirements and practices.* ENVIRONMENTAL PRACTICES STANDARDIZATION: Implements standardized environmental procedures, tools and practices to improve consistency, compliance and environmental performance.**Qualifications**MINIMUM & TYPICAL YEARS OF WORK EXPERIENCE* Minimum requirement of 2 years of relevant work experience.* Experience with environmental permits and license managementPREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS* Experience handling environmental incidents, remediation efforts, and waste management* DOT Hazmat certification* HAZWOPER Training* RCRA Training**Position information:*** Relocation will not be provided for this position* Work schedule: Dayshift M - F, occasional work over weekends and be on call* Position is based in Dayton, OHEqual Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Vet.At Cargill, we care about your safety and want your job search experience to be a positive one. Unfortunately, there are scams out there where individuals pretend to be Cargill recruiters to try to collect personal information or request payment. Please know that Cargill will **never** ask you for money during the hiring process, and in most cases, we only accept applications through our official careers site, with the exception of some roles in our production plants. If something doesn't feel right or you have questions, don't hesitate to contact us. To learn more, visit our Notice on Fraudulent Job Offers.To apply using chat/text, please click Apply Now button OR use this link to create a login to apply.To apply please click on APPLY TO THIS POSITIONJob Post Date: 10/24/26Here are some other jobs you may be interested in applying for.| | || - | - || Cargill, Inc SIDNEY, Ohio | Cargill, Inc SAINT MARY'S, Ohio || Cargill, Inc Cleveland, Ohio | |3 people are interested in this job.