Environmental health and safety specialist

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 management.

PREFERRED 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, OH. Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Vet.

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