Senior Environment Health & Safety Specialist
1 day ago
Chicago
At Caldic we are continually developing our capabilities and we strive to become better every day, with the goal to build long-term relationships. To add value to our company, and to our inspiring solutions we are currently looking to add to our team. Are you a natural leader with a proven track record in the industrial market? Do you have the drive to succeed in a moving fast forward company? Then we are looking for you! \n \n Position Summary: \n The Senior Environmental Health & Safety Specialist is responsible for independently leading environmental, health, and safety programs at two or more assigned facilities. This role serves as the primary technical resource for regulatory compliance, risk management, incident prevention, and continuous improvement initiatives. \n \n This position does not have direct supervisory responsibility but is expected to provide leadership, coaching, and technical guidance across the organization. \n \n Reporting to the North America EHS Leader, the US EHS Senior Specialist partners closely with Operations, Supply Chain, Quality, Human Resources, Maintenance, Engineering, Logistics, and site leadership to improve safety performance, strengthen compliance, and drive continuous improvement. The role provides practical field leadership while ensuring consistent execution of company EHS expectations, policies, training, audits, and corrective action processes. \n \n Essential Duties & Responsibilities \n \n Regulatory Compliance: \n \n -Ensure compliance with all applicable federal, state, and local environmental, health, and safety regulations. \n • Maintain working knowledge of OSHA, EPA, DOT, and applicable state regulatory requirements. \n • Conduct compliance assessments and inspections to identify risks and verify regulatory compliance. \n • Coordinate and support regulatory agency inspections and audits. \n • Prepare and maintain required permits, reports, records, and regulatory documentation. \n • Monitor regulatory changes and communicate impacts to facility leadership. \n \n Safety Program Leadership: \n \n Lead, maintain, and continuously improve site safety programs including: \n • Hazard Communication \n • Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) \n • Lockout/Tagout \n • Machine Guarding \n • Powered Industrial Trucks \n • Contractor Safety \n • Emergency Response \n • Fall Protection \n • Hot Work \n • Confined Space Entry \n • Ergonomics \n • Industrial Hygiene Initiatives \n • Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment Programs \n \n Risk Management & Incident Prevention: \n \n • Lead hazard assessments, job safety analyses, risk reviews, and development of practical controls to reduce injury and environmental risk. \n • Investigate incidents, near misses, environmental releases, and unsafe conditions to determine root cause and corrective actions. \n • Drive completion and verification of corrective and preventive actions to prevent recurrence. \n • Implement proactive injury prevention, behavioral safety, ergonomics, machine safety, chemical safety, and contractor safety initiatives. \n • Partner with Maintenance and Engineering to support safe equipment design, facility improvements, and management of change processes. \n \n Training, Communication & Employee Engagement: \n \n • Develop, coordinate, and verify completion of required EHS training for employees, contractors, supervisors, and site leaders. \n • Promote active participation in safety committees, safety observations, toolbox talks, Gemba walks, and employee-led improvement efforts. \n • Communicate safety alerts, lessons learned, regulatory updates, and best practices across U.S. sites. \n • Ensure training records, inspection logs, incident documentation, and EHS files are accurate, current, and audit-ready. \n \n Environmental & Sustainability Support: \n \n • Oversee environmental programs related to air, water, waste, stormwater, chemical management, spill prevention, and emergency response. \n • Support environmental reporting, permit compliance, waste minimization, recycling, and sustainability-related initiatives. \n • Partner with operations and supply chain teams to improve environmental performance and reduce operational risk. \n \n Cross-Functional Collaboration: \n \n • Partner with Operations to integrate EHS expectations into daily management, production scheduling, and operational execution. \n • Collaborate with Quality and Food Safety teams to support GMP, PPE, sanitation, allergen, and plant safety requirements where applicable. \n • Work closely with Human Resources on workers compensation, return-to-work, employee engagement, and safety-related employee matters. \n • Support capital projects, new product introductions, facility changes, and strategic initiatives with EHS risk review and compliance guidance. \n • Participate in cross-functional projects that improve safety, compliance, operating discipline, and end-to-end business performance. \n \n \n Qualifications \n Education Required: \n \n • Bachelor's Degree in Occupational Health & Safety, Environmental Science, Industrial Hygiene, Engineering, or a related technical field. \n \n Equivalent combinations of education and relevant experience may be considered. \n \n Experience: \n \n • Minimum of 5 years of progressive EHS experience in manufacturing, warehousing, chemical processing, food ingredients, food-grade blending, logistics, or industrial operations. \n • Demonstrated experience independently managing EHS programs. \n • Experience conducting incident investigations and root cause analyses. \n • Experience delivering employee training programs. \n • Experience interacting with regulatory agencies and auditors. \n • Experience supporting multi-site operations across the United States strongly preferred. \n • Strong working knowledge of OSHA, EPA, DOT, hazardous materials, environmental permitting, incident investigation, and risk management requirements. \n • Experience with EHS management systems, action tracking, training systems, incident reporting tools, and Microsoft Office Suite. \n \n \n Knowledge, Skills & Competencies: \n \n • Strong working knowledge of OSHA regulations and compliance requirements. \n • Knowledge of EPA, DOT, and environmental regulatory requirements. \n • Strong understanding of workers' compensation and return-to-work programs. \n • Excellent incident investigation and root cause analysis skills. \n • Ability to interpret regulations and translate requirements into practical solutions. \n • Strong leadership and influencing skills without direct authority. \n • Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills. \n • Strong project management and organizational skills. \n • Ability to work independently with limited supervision. \n • Ability to prioritize multiple projects and deadlines. \n • Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications, including Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook. \n • Experience using EHS management systems and reporting databases. \n \n Physical Requirements: \n \n • Ability to sit, stand, and walk throughout office, warehouse, laboratory, and manufacturing environments. \n • Ability to occasionally lift up to 25 pounds. \n • Ability to travel regularly to U.S. company locations, suppliers, customers, or regulatory meetings as business needs require. \n • Must be able to wear required PPE and comply with all GMP, food safety, chemical safety, emergency response, and plant safety requirements. \n • Ability to respond to urgent EHS matters, investigations, inspections, or operational events when needed. \n \n About us: \n \n At Caldic we value our team spirit, built on strong relationships and open communication. You will be part of a community where you can always get support from experienced colleagues. At the same time we encourage an entrepreneurial mindset: \n \n Every day hundreds of thousands of people around the world are in touch with a food, pharma, personal care or industrial product that has been handled with care by Caldic. At Caldic we are the linking pin, connecting people, products and solutions for a better world. But we go beyond connecting to ensure we deliver on our business partners' requirements for added-value R&D, manufacturing and packaging solutions, while minimizing the environmental impact. This makes Caldic the partner of choice in innovative and sustainable solutions in life science and specialty chemicals. Our tagline ‘Because we care' underlines our commitment to our people, our business partners and our planet. On a daily basis around 1200 Caldic employees go the extra mile to deliver value-add solutions. Caldic is present in 19 countries in Europe, North America and Asia Pacific. For more information, please visit www.caldic.com. \n \n Caldic Canada Inc. is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon: Age, Citizenship, Colour, Family Status, Gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), Gender Identity or Expression, Marriage and Civil Partnerships, Physical and/ or Mental Disabilities, Political Belief, Race, Religion, Sex, Sexual Orientation, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. Accommodations are available upon request for any candidate and/ or employee.