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Job Purpose and Impact

The Environmental Health and Safety Specialist will provide expertise and work within teams to ensure compliance regarding environmental, health and safety regulations. The Cargill Sidney location is a three facility soy and oil processing complex providing a unique opportunity to gain growth and experience in multiple Cargill businesses (soy crush, oil refining and packaging). In this role, you will help develop, implement and maintain processes and programs that comply with federal, state and local regulations and requirements. You will lead and support health and safety compliance in a highly complex facility with multiple highly hazardous processes and production capabilities.

Key Accountabilities Implement and handle processes and systems for environmental health and safety hazard identification and risk management.Participate in incident investigations based on incident classification in partnership with specialists internally and externally or regulatory authorities to identify the root cause and help prevent recurrence.Implement and execute controls and programs and ensure they work as planned.Prepare for audits, governmental inspections and customer visits and identify data and reports needed to monitor performance and compliance against goals.Support appropriate training content and delivery mode, in line with global and regional requirements, conduct gap assessment to identify training needs and adjust curriculum to reflect site specific needs.Understand risks applicable to contractor and external service providers, implement, monitor and evaluate approved processes to control environmental health and safety risks with contractors.Independently solve moderately complex issues with minimal supervision, while escalating more complex issues to appropriate staff.Other duties as assignedQualifications Minimum QualificationsBachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experienceIn depth knowledge of legislation and business processes in environmental health and safety systems.Experience with onsite manufacturing or industrial safetyMinimum of two years of related work experiencePreferred QualificationsKnowledge of international instruments aimed at reducing injuries (near miss, observation, risk assessment).Ability to communicate and collaborate with diverse groups in a large organization.Experience with environmental health and safety management systems.Experience in organizing safety management system for specialists of contracting organizations.Job Description Relocation assistance won’t be provided for this position.Benefit package includes Paid time off; paid holidays; medical, vision and dental coverage; flexible spending accounts; life insurance; disability insurance; retirement savings; employee and family assistance program (EAP). Learn more at: www.cargill.com/myhealth.

Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Vet.