Job Description:
Cargill is a family company committed to providing food and agricultural solutions to nourish the world in a safe, responsible, and sustainable way. We sit at the heart of the supply chain, partnering with producers and customers to source, make and deliver products that are vital for living. By providing customers with life's essentials, we enable businesses to grow, communities to prosper, and consumers to live well.
This position is in our specialized portfolio enterprise where we serve diverse businesses who support unique customers or markets, including animal nutrition and health, bioindustrial, road safety salt and Cargill joint ventures.
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 Environmental Health Safety Manager in facilitating the community and governmental interaction and the external reputation.
Support contractor environmental, health and safety requirements during construction phase and help test and evaluate environmental, health and safety performance according to design during project startup phase.
Partner with regional domain and country environmental, health and safety to support management of site impact assessments, operating permits and construction permits.
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 key site or project leaders 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.
Other duties as assigned
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience
Minimum requirement of 2 years of relevant work experience.
Preferred Qualifications
Confirmed ability to deliver processes effectively to optimize business resources
Strong scientific and mathematical knowledge
Solid working knowledge of food safety industry practices and standards
Basic business acumen and the ability to partner and communicate effectively with business counterparts
Position information:
Relocation will not be provided for this position
Work schedule:Dayshift M-F:8-5, occasional weekend work as needed
Position is based in Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Vet
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Job Post Date: 09/02/26
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