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Cargill EHS Specialist in Sas van Gent, Netherlands
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
As an Environmental Health and Safety Specialist, you are the expert in your field. Together with the EHS manager, you will steer the course for the environment, health and safety within the complex facility in Sas van Gent. Your mission? Leading initiatives that not only comply with stringent regulations, but also ensure continuous improvement in the areas of environmental management, health and safety. You do this in an environment with an increased risk of serious injuries, environmental effects or process accidents. In short, a role in which your expertise makes a difference to the safety and health of others and to the preservation of our environment.
Key Accountabilities
Support the plant in leading the external reputation and facilitate the community and governmental interaction and prepare required reports, requests for information and inquiry responses and facilitate governmental inspections, customer visits and company audits.
Identify contractor support and needs and oversee onsite contractor activity and understand local risks applicable to contractor and external service providers, implement, monitor and evaluate approved processes to control local environmental, health and safety risks with contractors.
Develop suitable training content and delivery models in line with global, regional and legal requirements, conduct gap assessment to identify competence needs, adjust curriculum to reflect site specific demand and organize and provide appropriate training.
Understand, implement and execute environmental, health and safety controls and programs and work processes such as risk identification and assessment, emergency action planning and incident management, agency inspections and audit and internal inspections to ensure they work as intended.
Partner with plant and project leaders and the local EHS team to promote and drive a strong environmental, health and safety culture in the facility team by building a mindset where a continuous improvement mentality is viewed as essential to success.
Participate as a member of the site EHS team and consult on planning, issue and incident response and operational environment, health and safety and process safety compliance, understanding systems, integrated processes, regulatory issues and workforce conditions.
Ensure strong alignment of environment, health and safety goals, metrics and targets with plant vision and targets and govern site performance targets together with plant manager.
Independently handle complex issues with minimal supervision, while escalating only the most complex issues to appropriate staff.
Other duties as assigned
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
Hogere Veiligheidskunde and/or Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience
Minimum of four years of related work experience
Fluent level of English and Dutch
Preferred Qualifications
Confirmed ability to deliver processes effectively to optimize business resources
Strong scientific and mathematical knowledge
Working knowledge of food safety industry practices and standards
Basic business acumen and the ability to partner and communicate effectively with business counterparts
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Our Offer
We will 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.
Interested? Then make sure to send us your CV and cover letter in English today.
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