Facility Safety Health & Environmental Specialist

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Joining Nestle means becoming part of an inclusive workplace that inspires innovation, encourages strategic thinking and creativity, and celebrates your achievements. No matter where you work within the organization, you are empowered to challenge the status quo, embrace risk-taking, and pioneer new ideas. Our supportive and collaborative environment encourages bold ambitions and continuous learning so that everyone can grow and thrive.

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Position Summary
The Facility SH&E Specialist will coordinate and execute safety, health, and environmental programs. The position interacts with employees to ensure a culture of safety where each employee is accountable and responsible for Safety, Health, and Environmental conditions and behaviors. They ensure compliance with regulations and company policies, routinely interacting with employees on the manufacturing floor. As well as completing and maintaining a variety of assessments to identify hazards and collaborate with the onsite team to create an action plan to eliminate identified hazards.

Responsibilities

In addition to overall input to facility safety, health and environmental initiatives, strategies, programs and procedures, responsibilities include hands on counsel, supervision, assessment, and implementation of:

• Facility SH&E Culture
• • Foster/develop a culture where safety, health, and environment are a core value with all employees, where everyone believes zero is achievable, everyone is actively engaged in performing their work in a safe manner, everyone actively interacts with co-workers to prevent at-risk behaviors.
  • Actively participates on the SH&E Team/Pillar and other assigned teams. Effectively coaches and develops operations line supervision to be effective SH&E leaders/coaches in their respective positions.

• SH&E Performance
  • Analyze SH&E conditions and behaviors and recommends changes to continuously improve SH&E performance to world class levels. Compliance - Primarily responsible for implementing systems, procedures, and work practices to ensure "audit ready" state of compliance.
  • Develop and implement processes and procedures (SOP's) to ensure compliance with company and regulatory agency policies, including federal, state and local legislation and regulations pertaining to SH&E.
  • Reviews, analyzes, critiques and/or approves engineering design development reports, plans and specifications for compliance with environmental laws and regulations.

• SH&E Strategies, Programs and Plans
  • Drives implementation of SH&E best in class programs, systems and processes, including training and coaching to establish clear procedures on SH&E measures and precautions.
    

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in environmental and/or safety subject area or related fields preferred. We will consider the equivalent years of experience in lieu of a degree.

Experience

• 3-5 years' experience in successfully coordinating Safety, Health, and Environmental sustainability activities in a manufacturing setting
• Experience with OSHA, DOT and EPA regulations and local equivalents and their application to Site operations
• Professional certifications in SH&E related fields are considered beneficial and may include ASP, CSP, GSP, CIH

Skills

• Excellent interpersonal interactions
• Ability to build teams throughout all levels and functions of the Site with respect, tact and impactful outcomes. Decision-making: must be capable of making well-informed
• decisions in both routine and emergency situations
• Excellent written and oral communication skills are required along with the ability to relate with audiences that have a broad range of background and understanding
• Must demonstrate good insight and ability to develop mutual solutions to challenges
• Able to work and lead in a team setting, live the Nestle Leadership Principles, and bring those principles to life for others

It is our business imperative to remain a very inclusive workplace.

To our veterans and separated service members, you're at the forefront of our minds as we recruit top talent to join Nestle. The skills you've gained while serving our country, such as flexibility, agility, and leadership, are much like the skills that will make you successful in this role. In addition, with our commitment to an inclusive work environment, we recognize the exceptional engagement and innovation displayed by individuals with disabilities. Nestle seeks such skilled and qualified individuals to share our mission where you'll join a cohort of others who have chosen to call Nestle home.

The Nestle Companies are equal employment opportunity employers. All applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. Prior to the next step in the recruiting process, we welcome you to inform us confidentially if you may require any special accommodations in order to participate fully in our recruitment experience. Contact us at accommodations@nestle.com or please dial 711 and provide this number to the operator: 1-800-321-6467.

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Job Requisition:360554