Environmental Health and Safety Sr Specialist

Nebraska Ag Connection; Omaha (NE); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Cargill in Omaha, Nebraska is seeking an Environment, Health & Safety Senior Specialist to lead site safety programs across the Livestock POD. You will develop EHS strategies, manage risk controls and strengthen compliance, partnering with local leadership to protect people, product and planet.

The role requires 4+ years of EHS experience, at least one year of people management, and relevant technical certifications.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of EHS experience in industry/manufacturing.
• Minimum 1 year of people leadership/management.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement EHS strategy and management system across sites.
• Lead risk identification and controls to reduce exposure.
• Oversee EHS compliance with regulations.
• Investigate incidents and verify corrective actions.
• Deliver EHS training and awareness programs.
• Monitor performance metrics and reporting.
• Manage EHS team, allocate resources, develop talent.

Skills

EHS leadership

People management

Regulatory compliance

Incident investigation

Training & coaching

Project management

Remote work experience

Education

Bachelor's in technical field

Tools

ASP/CSP/ERM

Job description

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 Environment, Health & Safety Sr Specialist is an integral leader in the Livestock POD. This role coordinates engagement with the local and regional leadership teams, partners with site leaders to protect what matters: people- product and planet. This position supports sites through regulatory and management system compliance, helps identify and reduce operational risk and strengthens operational discipline. This job coordinates engagement with the local leadership team, develops organizational technical capability, promotes a proactive safety culture and improves sustainable environment, health and safety performance in the assigned areas.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

• EHS STRATEGY & MANAGEMENT SYSTEM: Coordinates collaboration across the group of sites (POD), engineering and leadership teams to align environment, health and safety strategies in the assigned areas and leads implementation and sustainment of the environment, health and safety management system.
• EHS RISK MANAGEMENT: Leads operational environment, health, and safety risk identification and prioritization, and working with site leadership, supports oversight of the implementation and verification of effective risk controls to reduce exposure and prevent incidents.
• EHS COMPLIANCE: Oversees compliance with environment, health, and safety regulations, including management of legal and other compliance obligations.
• INCIDENT INVESTIGATION & CORRECTION: Partners with the team to conduct timely, high quality environment, health, and safety investigations, verifies corrective actions for effectiveness, and ensures key learnings are shared and applied to prevent recurrence.
• TRAINING & EHS AWARENESS: Leads the deployment of employee training, relevant safety communications, toolbox talks and programs that build skills and reinforce behaviors.
• PERFORMANCE MONITORING & REPORTING: Oversees key performance indicators tracking, trends analysis, insights and reports preparation and recommends improvements to strengthen safety culture and operational risk management.
• TEAM MANAGEMENT: Manages team members to achieve the organization's goals by allocating resources, ensuring productivity, communicating performance expectations, creating goal alignment, giving and seeking feedback, providing coaching, measuring progress and holding people accountable, supporting employee development, recognizing achievement and lessons learned, and developing enabling conditions for talent to thrive in an inclusive team culture.

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QUALIFICATIONS

MINIMUM

• Minimum requirement of 4 years of relevant work experience (EHS) in industry / manufacturing
• Minimum 1 year of experience managing others

PREFERRED

• Bachelor's Degree in technical area- (Sciences, Engineering, EHS)
• Technical certification in EHS Discipline (ASP/CSP/ERM)
• Process Safety experience ++ for Combustible dust
• Experience in project management
• Experience in self-directed work/remote work

APPLICANT INFORMATION

• This position is posted both internally and externally
• Position is based in Omaha, Nebraska
• Relocation assistance is NOT provided for this role
• The business will not sponsor applicants for work visas for this position

Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Vet.