Demo

Environmental Health Safety Specialist

Cargill
Cargill Salary
Rapids, IA Full Time
POSTED ON 9/3/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 10/2/2026

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 specialized portfolio enterprise where we serve diverse businesses who support unique customers or markets, including animal nutrition and health, bioindustrial, road safety salt and Cargill joint ventures. 

Job Purpose and Impact

The Environmental Health and Safety Specialist will lead the implementation, execution and maintenance of the environmental, health and safety and process safety management systems at low to medium complex facility, or help lead at a high complex facility. In this role, you will serve as a subject matter authority for the application of safe, compliant operational practices and demonstrate compliance with company policy, work processes, programs and standards that comply with environmental, health and safety regulations.

Key Accountabilities
  • Support the Environmental Health Safety Manager in facilitating the community and governmental interaction and the external reputation.
  • 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, adjust 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
  • Minimum requirement of 2 years of relevant work experience. 
Preferred Qualifications
  • Confirmed ability to deliver processes effectively to optimize business resources
  • Strong scientific and mathematical knowledge
  • Solid working knowledge of food safety industry practices and standards
  • Basic business acumen and the ability to partner and communicate effectively with business counterparts
Position information:
  • Relocation will not be provided for this position
  • Work schedule:Dayshift M-F:8-5, occasional weekend work as needed 
  • Position is based in Cedar Rapids, Iowa

Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Vet

Salary.com Estimation for Environmental Health Safety Specialist in Rapids, IA
$75,562 to $92,884
If your compensation planning software is too rigid to deploy winning incentive strategies, it’s time to find an adaptable solution. Compensation Planning
Enhance your organization's compensation strategy with salary data sets that HR and team managers can use to pay your staff right. Surveys & Data Sets

What is the career path for a Environmental Health Safety Specialist?

Sign up to receive alerts about other jobs on the Environmental Health Safety Specialist career path by checking the boxes next to the positions that interest you.
Income Estimation: 
$80,339 - $93,084
Income Estimation: 
$96,037 - $114,374
Income Estimation: 
$102,054 - $131,688
Income Estimation: 
$70,221 - $95,951
Income Estimation: 
$87,414 - $116,414
Income Estimation: 
$66,426 - $96,216
Income Estimation: 
$70,221 - $95,951
Income Estimation: 
$87,414 - $116,414
Income Estimation: 
$66,426 - $96,216
Employees: Get a Salary Increase
View Core, Job Family, and Industry Job Skills and Competency Data for more than 15,000 Job Titles Skills Library

Job openings at Cargill

  • Cargill Parkston, SD
  • 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... more
  • 9 Days Ago

  • Cargill Beardsley, SD
  • 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... more
  • 9 Days Ago

  • Cargill Schuyler, NE
  • New, easy-to-apply options are available for this role: chat with our recruiting assistant Ana at careers.cargill.com or text CargillJobs to 60196. Want to... more
  • 9 Days Ago

  • Cargill Fremont, NE
  • 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... more
  • 9 Days Ago


Not the job you're looking for? Here are some other Environmental Health Safety Specialist jobs in the Rapids, IA area that may be a better fit.

  • NEW LEADER MANUFACTURING Rapids, IA
  • The EHS Specialist will help meet the demands of both safety and environmental compliance for the Company. The EHS Specialist will assist with environmenta... more
  • 3 Days Ago

  • Integrated DNA Technologies Coralville, IA
  • Bring more to life. Are you ready to accelerate your potential and make a real difference within life sciences, diagnostics and biotechnology? At Integrate... more
  • 11 Days Ago

AI Assistant is available now!

Feel free to start your new journey!