Environmental Health and Safety Specialist in Guelph, Ontario

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.

We are 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.

Job Purpose and Impact

The Environmental Health and Safety Specialist, 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. 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. This includes supporting the ergonomic program such as performing task analysis (including physical demands descriptions), job coaching, conditioning programs, workplace modifications and other preventative initiatives.

Key Accountabilities

• Analyze injury statistics to establish a baseline of musculoskeletal disorders; and, conduct ergonomics risk assessments for development of action plans on target jobs to reduce/ eliminate ergonomic risk factors.

• 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, adjusting 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

• Ability to work other shifts and weekends if needed (around 10% of the time)

Preferred Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree or associate degree in occupational health and safety, kinesiology/ human kinetics, physiotherapy or a related discipline.

• Knowledge of ergonomic principles and ability to apply principles in a wide variety of work environments.

• Solid working knowledge of food safety industry practices and standards

• Basic business acumen and the ability to partner and communicate effectively with business counterparts

• Experience in creating and delivering training material

Position Information

• Relocation assistance will not be provided for this position.

Cargill is an equal opportunity employer and committed to providing accommodation to our job applicants with disabilities.