Environmental, Health and Safety Assistant

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 Environmental, Health and Safety Assistant will provide support for environmental, health and safety compliance and will be responsible for administrative support. In this role, you will provide administrative assistance in the development, implementation and maintenance of processes and programs built to assure compliance with existing federal, state and local health and safety regulations and requirements at sites with environmentally regulated technologies or highly hazardous processes, medium to high risk of serious injuries and fatality.

Key Accountabilities

• Support the review of environmental health and safety programs, including assessing risks, conducting field checks, organizing and facilitating sessions and role modeling environmental health and safety behaviors.
• Support the management of action plans by assisting in identifying potential emergency situations, assist in creating emergency communication plans, support testing and validating the emergency action plans.
• Assist in updating environment health and safety program and process documentation in alignment with global programs, incorporating clearly defined instructions and edits provided by more senior team members.
• Provide assistance in system support activities to document issues, risks, training and action plans.
• Handle moderately complex clerical, administrative, technical or customer support issues under general supervision, while escalating more complex issues to appropriate staff.
• Other duties as assigned
  
  

Qualifications

MINIMUM

• High school diploma, secondary education level or equivalent
• Minimum requirement of 2 years of relevant work experience. Typically reflects 3 years or more of relevant experience.
  
  

Preferred

• Solid working knowledge of environment, health and safety practices
• Working knowledge of OSHA recordkeeping and case management practices
• Strong organizational skills
• Strong Microsoft office and Advanced Key Management System (AKMS) skills
• Strong scheduling of meetings and events
• Working knowledge of SAP, Alchemy, Nourishing U and Enablon
  
  

APPLICANT INFORMATION

• This position is posted both internally and externally
• Position is based in Eddyville, Iowa
• 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