Site Environmental Health and Safety Specialist
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 Food Enterprise where we are committed to serving food manufacturers, food service customers, and retailers with a complete range of innovative ingredients and branded products. Our portfolio includes poultry, beef, egg, alternative protein, salt, oils, starches, sweeteners, cocoa and chocolate.
Job Purpose and Impact
The Site – Environmental Health and Safety Specialist (& Preventiemedewerker) will provide basic subject‑matter expertise that complies with environmental, health and safety regulations. In this role, you will support the implementation and application of environmental, health and safety and process safety management processes and programs for the local site. You will understand in detail the applications of safe, compliant operational practices and support compliance demonstration associated with company policy, work processes, programs and standards. You will continuously work with the production and maintenance team to improve safety standards.
Key Accountabilities
- Build partnerships and interact with production workers, top location leadership, business leadership, and environment, health and safety functional leadership.
- Develop an understanding of and execute environmental, health and safety work processes, activities, and controls.
- Review and break down environmental operating, construction, and other permits, identify compliance demonstration requirements, activities, and tasks, and deploy and execute the compliance demonstration program.
- Localize company and legally required processes, programs, and controls, and integrate them into site‑level operating procedures, tools, and work instructions to standardize frontline processes, and monitor, analyze, and adjust for improved performance.
- Conduct recordkeeping, analysis, and reporting duties; identify improvement and risk‑mitigation opportunities; and leverage and implement the most effective technologies and improvements in alignment with the country lead.
- Support the preparation for company audits, governmental inspections, and customer visits, and collect data and prepare reports needed to monitor program maturity, performance, and compliance.
- Support the determination of suitable training content and delivery mode in line with global and regional requirements; support gap assessments to identify training needs; support adjustments of the curriculum to reflect site‑specific needs; and support delivery of training.
- Handle basic issues and problems under direct supervision while escalating more complex issues to the appropriate staff.
- Other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience
- Fluency in Dutch and English
- Certificate Prevention Advisor Level 2
- Minimum of three years of related work experience
Preferred Qualifications
- Ability to relate technical knowledge to job‑related duties
- Confirmed ability to solve problems and make decisions independently
- Experience in dealing with Health & Safety Committees (CPBW) is a plus
- Solid working knowledge of food‑safety industry practices and standards is a plus
Our Offer
We provide a fast paced stimulating international environment, which will stretch your abilities and channel your talents. We also offer competitive salary and benefits combined with outstanding career development opportunities in one of the largest and most solid private companies in the world.
We welcome applications from people with disabilities and are committed to providing an inclusive, accessible recruitment process and workplace. We encourage candidates to let us know if they require any accommodations during the recruitment or interview process so we can support them appropriately.
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