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Job Purpose and Impact

The Environmental Health and Safety Specialist (12 month term) will provide subject matter expertise in environmental, health and safety compliance. In this role, you will develop, implement and maintain processes and programs built to assure compliance with existing federal, state and local regulations and requirements for a medium complex operation with two or more highly hazardous processes, low serious injuries and fatality and high serious environmental events potential.

Key Accountabilities

• Conduct incident investigations based on incident classification and liaise with engineers, management and health and safety regulatory authorities to identify causes of accidents and prevent their recurrence.
• Responsible for preparing and executing audits and ensuring compliance with legal and other requirements.
• Promote environmental, health and safety culture through training and education solutions related to environmental, health and safety issues, practices and risks and coach others as the need arises.
• Lead action plans by identifying potential emergency situations, creating emergency communication plans and testing and validating the emergency action plans.
• Define, implement and handle the processes for risks, hazards and opportunities identification and determine resources required to execute.
• Execute controls and applicable control programs and document that control programs have been implemented as planned for a medium size and medium complex operation with medium risk and exposure.
• Other duties as assigned
• Responsible for personnel decisions related to hiring, performance and disciplinary actions for your direct reports. You will also spend time completing the same tasks as employees on your team.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or equivalent experience
• Minimum one year of directly related work experience
• Bilingual written and spoken (French and English)
• Able and willing to work on a flexible schedule as needed
• Must be legally entitled to work for Cargill in Canada

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft suite (Outlook, Excel, Word, Power Point, MS project)
• Industrial Ergonomic/Environmental experience
• Automation and/or Maintenance experience