Nestle

Safety, Health & Environmental Specialist

Nestle • $78K — $90K *
Bohemia, NY 11716In-Person
Food & Beverages
Less than 5 years of experience
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Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in environmental or safety fields or equivalent experience in SH&E roles within manufacturing.
  • 1-5 years of experience in Safety, Health, and Environmental activities in a manufacturing setting.
  • Knowledge of OSHA, DOT, and EPA regulations relevant to site operations.
  • Professional certifications in SH&E, such as CIH or NEBOSH Certificate, are advantageous.
  • Strong analytical, organizational, and communication skills are essential.
  • Proficiency in digital tools and platforms required.
  • Excellent interpersonal skills with a team-oriented mindset.

Responsibilities

  • Champion and develop a safety culture among all employees where safety is a core value.
  • Engage in hands-on coaching and development of operational line supervisors as effective SH&E coaches.
  • Analyze and recommend improvements to Site SH&E conditions and behaviors for enhanced performance.
  • Implement systems and procedures to maintain an 'audit ready' compliance state.
  • Develop SOPs that ensure adherence to company and regulatory SH&E policies.
  • Drive the integration of SH&E best practices across all initiatives and programs.
  • Lead incident investigation processes and provide training for accident prevention and environmental management.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to create a culture of safety and environmental stewardship.
  • Hands-on role with direct impact on employee safety and operational effectiveness.
  • Professional growth and development opportunities within SH&E roles.
  • Engagement in cross-functional teamwork with various departments.
  • Access to training programs for skill enhancement in SH&E practices.
Full Job Description
Position Summary:

As the site Safety Health & Environmental Specialist you are responsible for coordinating and executing safety, health and environmental programs. In this position you will interact with employees to ensure a culture of caring and where each employee is accountable and responsible for Safety, Health & Environmental conditions and behaviors. As the SH&E Specialist you ensure compliance with regulations and company policies, routinely interact with employees on the site floor, balance sophisticated assignments involving performance of daily audits/inspections.

Key Responsibilities:

  • In addition to overall input to Site safety, health and environmental initiatives, strategies, programs and procedures, responsibilities include via hands on counsel, supervision, assessment and implementation of: Champions and develops a culture where safety, health and environment are ingrained as a core value with all employees, 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 Facility SH&E Team and other assigned teams. Effectively coaches and develops operations line supervision to be effective SH&E coaches in their respective positions.
  • Analyze SH&E conditions and behaviors and recommends changes to continuously improve Site SH&E performance to world class levels.
  • 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 Site 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.
  • 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.
  • Drives key effective, sustainable implementation Corporate, Division and Site SH&E initiatives, strategies, programs and procedures, responsibilities via hands on leadership, coaching and team work. Manage Worker's Compensation in partnership with Risk Management. Understand the safety risks associated with jobs, Site wide. Understand the aspects of the Site that impact the environment, and optimizes them.
  • Ensures thorough investigation of all incidents, in coordination with Safety and Health Site leadership.
  • Provide expertise and participate to all SH&E incident investigations as conducted by Site Leadership. Administer training programs for safety accident prevention and protection, and may support environmental management systems.
  • Drive excellence through active participation on the production floor to adopt a - ZERO TOLERANCE MENTALITY- toward SH&E losses and drive elimination of losses through the Nestle Continuous Excellence.
  • Provides SH&E functional and technical expertise/mentorship as needed in all areas and initiatives of the function. Partners with other key functions on initiatives including engineering, HR, Quality, Operations, NCE, etc to deliver on goals and plans.


Experience and Education Requirements:

  • Bachelor's degree in environmental and/or safety subject area or related fields, international equivalents or significant experience in SH&E roles with the last position held supporting a manufacturing or production environment in lieu of a degree..
  • A minimum of 1-5 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 CIH, NEBOSH Certificate, ASP, AEM, etc. a plus.
  • Strong analytical, organizational, communication and digital literacy required.
  • Excellent interpersonal interactions.
  • Ability to build teams throughout

About Nestle

Nestlé S.A. is a Swiss multinational food and drink processing conglomerate corporation headquartered in Vevey, Vaud, Switzerland. It is the largest food company in the world, measured by revenue and other metrics, since 2014. It ranked No. 64 on the Fortune Global 500 in 2017 and No. 33 in the 2016 edition of the Forbes Global 2000 list of largest public companies. Nestlé's products include baby food, medical food, bottled water, breakfast cereals, coffee and tea, confectionery, dairy products, ice cream, frozen food, pet foods, and snacks. Twenty-nine of Nestlé's brands have annual sales of over 1 billion CHF, including Nespresso, Nescafé, Kit Kat, Smarties, Nesquik, Stouffer's, Vittel, and Maggi. Nestlé has 447 factories, operates in 189 countries, and employs around 339,000 people. It is one of the main shareholders of L'Oreal, the world's largest cosmetics company. Nestlé was formed in 1905 by the merger of the "Anglo-Swiss Milk Company", established in 1866 by brothers George and Charles Page, and "Farine Lactée Henri Nestlé", founded in 1867 by Henri Nestlé. The company grew significantly during the First World War and again following the Second World War, expanding its offerings beyond its early condensed milk and infant formula products. The company has made a number of corporate acquisitions, including Crosse & Blackwell in 1950, Findus in 1963, Libby's in 1971, Rowntree Mackintosh in 1988, Klim in 1998, and Gerber in 2007.
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1866
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