EHS Specialist (temp 8 months)

Job Purpose and Impact

The Environmental Health and Safety Specialist will lead the implementation, execution and maintenance of the environmental, health and safety and process safety management systems at low to medium complex facility, or help lead at a high complex facility. In this role, you will serve as a subject matter authority for the application of safe, compliant operational practices and demonstrate compliance with company policy, work processes, programs and standards that comply with environmental, health and safety regulations.

Key Accountabilities

• Support the plant manager in facilitating the community and governmental interaction and the external reputation.

• 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 Plant Manager, Supervisor 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.

• Ensure compliance with local legislation and Cargill EHS standards and principles e.g. by ensuring EHS is integrated into planning, operational reviews.

• Implement EHS yearly execution plan and communicate to management. Ensure the implementation plan includes effective risk management procedures, propose modifications to the plans as required during the implementation journey to reflect changes in risk.

• Site observation, check the safety condition, find UA/UC and rectify as well as review method statement and JHA (Job Hazard Analysis)

• Partner with Engineering department to ensure fire protection and waste water treatment system is operating in good condition and obey to local requirements.

• Other duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience

• Minimum requirement of 2 years of relevant work experience. Typically reflects 3 years or more of relevant experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Ability to deliver processes effectively to optimize business resources

• Solid working knowledge of food safety industry practices and standards

• Basic business acumen and the ability to partner and communicate effectively with business counterparts

• Have ownership of EHS and able to drive change through personal leadership