Sr EHS Specialist

Cargill’s size and scale allows us to make a positive impact in the world. Our purpose is to nourish the world in a safe, responsible and sustainable way.

Cargill is a family company providing food, ingredients, agricultural solutions and industrial products that are vital for living. We connect farmers with markets so they can prosper. We connect customers with ingredients so they can make meals people love. And we connect families with daily essentials — from eggs to edible oils, salt to skincare, feed to alternative fuel. Our 160,000 colleagues, operating in 70 countries, make essential products that touch billions of lives each day. Join us and reach your higher purpose at Cargill.

This position is in Cargill’s food and bioindustrial business, where manufacturers, retailers, and foodservice companies rely on us to consistently deliver the products and services they need, and use our technical expertise and market knowledge to develop innovative products.

Job Purpose and Impact

The Senior EHS Specialist will apply technical knowledge of process safety to deploy corporate standards to handle hazardous processes. In this role, you will manage safety teams and guide the development of strategies to deploy, implement and sustain corporate process safety risk management standards and ensure prevention of serious process safety events.

Key Accountabilities

• Assess complex environmental, health and safety risks, opportunities and impacts using your knowledge of industry best practices, standards and regulations and advise on potential impacts to internal and external stakeholders.
• Lead the development of programs and processes involving little interpretation and variation to execute the environmental health and safety strategy following all regulatory guidelines.
• Identify and implement changes to support continuous improvement of complex environment, health and safety programs and processes.
• Provide operational leadership to the audit, inspection and risk assessment processes and expand as appropriate.
• Review and analyze audit results requiring some interpretation, to confirm that the corporate, business and regulatory standards are met.
• Guide employees on specific customer and community concerns related to all environment, health and safety topics and equips them with the information and tools they need to accurately represent Cargill on related topics.
• Design moderately complex training solutions related to environment, health and safety issues, practices and risks used to build awareness of industry values, strategies and performance.
• Lead and develop a team, coach and make decisions related to talent management, hiring, performance, and disciplinary actions.
• Other duties as assigned
  
  

• Bachelors degree in a related field or equivalent experience
• Minimum requirement of 10 years of relevant work experience.
• Other minimum qualifications may apply
  
  

• Strong knowledge in EHS requirement and regulations
• Coming from Chemical, Petroleum, FMCG or equivalent industry