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Environmental Health and Safety Sr Specialist

Cargill


Job Location:

Omaha, NE - USA

Monthly Salary: Not provided by the employer
Posted: 9 October 2026 (17 days ago)
Application Deadline: 6 January 2027
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Cargill is committed to providing food and agricultural solutions to nourish the world in a safe responsible and sustainable way. Sitting at the heart of the supply chain we partner with farmers and customers to source make and deliver products that are vital for living.
Our 155000 team members innovate with purpose providing customers with lifes essentials so businesses can grow communities prosper and consumers live well. With over 160 years of experience as a family company we look ahead while remaining true to our values. We put people first. We reach higher. We do the right thingtoday and for generations to come.

JOB PURPOSE AND IMPACT

The Environment Health & Safety Sr Specialist is an integral leader in the Livestock POD. This role coordinates engagement with the local and regional leadership teams partners with site leaders to protect what matters: people- product and planet. This position supports sites through regulatory and management system compliance helps identify and reduce operational risk and strengthens operational discipline. This job coordinates engagement with the local leadership team develops organizational technical capability promotes a proactive safety culture and improves sustainable environment health and safety performance in the assigned areas.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

  • EHS STRATEGY & MANAGEMENT SYSTEM: Coordinates collaboration across the group of sites (POD) engineering and leadership teams to align environment health and safety strategies in the assigned areas and leads implementation and sustainment of the environment health and safety management system.
  • EHS RISK MANAGEMENT: Leads operational environment health and safety risk identification and prioritization and working with site leadership supports oversight of the implementation and verification of effective risk controls to reduce exposure and prevent incidents.
  • EHS COMPLIANCE: Oversees compliance with environment health and safety regulations including management of legal and other compliance obligations.
  • INCIDENT INVESTIGATION & CORRECTION: Partners with the team to conduct timely high quality environment health and safety investigations verifies corrective actions for effectiveness and ensures key learnings are shared and applied to prevent recurrence.
  • TRAINING & EHS AWARENESS: Leads the deployment of employee training relevant safety communications toolbox talks and programs that build skills and reinforce behaviors.
  • PERFORMANCE MONITORING & REPORTING: Oversees key performance indicators tracking trends analysis insights and reports preparation and recommends improvements to strengthen safety culture and operational risk management.
  • TEAM MANAGEMENT: Manages team members to achieve the organizations goals by allocating resources ensuring productivity communicating performance expectations creating goal alignment giving and seeking feedback providing coaching measuring progress and holding people accountable supporting employee development recognizing achievement and lessons learned and developing enabling conditions for talent to thrive in an inclusive team culture.

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QUALIFICATIONS

MINIMUM

  • Minimum requirement of 4 years of relevant work experience (EHS) in industry / manufacturing
  • Minimum 1 year of experience managing others

PREFERRED

  • Bachelors Degree in technical area- (Sciences Engineering EHS)
  • Technical certification in EHS Discipline (ASP/CSP/ERM)
  • Process Safety experience for Combustible dust
  • Experience in project management
  • Experience in self-directed work/remote work

APPLICANT INFORMATION

  • This position is posted both internally and externally
  • Position is based in Omaha Nebraska
  • Relocation assistance is NOT provided for this role
  • The business will not sponsor applicants for work visas for this position

Equal Opportunity Employer including Disability/Vet.

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Required Experience:

Senior IC


About Company

Cargill, Incorporated is an American privately held global corporation based in Minnetonka, Minnesota, and incorporated in Wilmington, Delaware. Founded in 1865, it is the largest privately held corporation in the United States in terms of revenue.

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