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Environmental Health and Safety Specialist

Emerson

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$43.27-52.88 /h
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Shakopee, MN
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Job Description

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Job Overview:

Emerson is seeking an Environmental Health and Safety professional ready to grow their career and make an impact! Based at our Shakopee, Minnesota campus, this role supports environmental, safety, and health programs that drive compliance, prevent risk, and strengthen a culture of safety. As an Environmental Health and Safety Specialist, you’ll partner with teams across the site to help implement and improve EHS initiatives that protect people, property, and the environment—while continuing to build your skills through hands on experience.

In This Role, Your Responsibilities Will Be:
  • Provide expertise in the development, improvement, and deployment of EHS practices including safety & health policies, recordkeeping, tools, standards, and best practices
  • Develop and execute site EHS training to ensure compliance with state, federal and corporate requirements
  • Assist with planning and delivering EHS training to help ensure compliance with state, federal, and corporate requirements
  • Accountable for Emerson’s critical risk initiatives, gap assessment and implementation planning
  • Evaluate processes for appropriate hazard controls through active participation in risk assessments, while also proactively identifying and mitigating risks related to the environment, equipment, processes, chemicals, etc.
  • Help evaluate processes, equipment, and chemical usage to proactively reduce environmental and safety risks.
  • Support industrial hygiene program, sampling routine and recordkeeping
  • Oversee participation and management of the incident and near miss investigation process, systems and recordkeeping
     
Who You Are:
You engage in collaborative planning. You solicit both input and discussion. You stay aligned with your goals and stay productive. You relate comfortably with people across levels, functions, cultures, and geography. You acquire data from multiple and diverse sources when solving problems. You convert ideas into actions and produce results with new initiatives. You align words and actions to model reliability. You deal comfortably with the uncertainty of change.
 
For This Role, You Will Need:
  • Bachelor’s degree, preferably in Occupational Safety & Health, Safety Management, Engineering, Industrial Hygiene, or Chemistry. Bachelor’s degree in a different discipline may be considered with applicable job experience. 
  • Minimum of two years of experience as a practitioner in an Environment, Health and Safety role, with applied knowledge of relevant EPA, OSHA, state regulatory and industry standards
  • Legal authorization to work in the United States
     
Preferred Qualifications That Set You Apart:
  • Two to Four years of experience as a practitioner
  • Professional Certification (CSP, ASP, CIH, etc.)
  • Experience in facilitating incident investigations and root cause analysis
     
Our Culture & Commitment to You:

At Emerson, we prioritize a workplace where every employee is valued, respected, and empowered to grow. We foster an environment that encourages innovation, collaboration, and diverse perspectives—because we know that great ideas come from great teams. Our commitment to ongoing career development and growing an inclusive culture ensures you have the support to thrive. Whether through mentorship, training, or leadership opportunities, we invest in your success so you can make a lasting impact. We believe diverse teams, working together are key to driving growth and delivering business results. 

We recognize the importance of employee wellbeing. We prioritize providing flexible, competitive benefits plans to meet you and your family’s physical, mental, financial, and social needs. We provide a variety of medical insurance plans, with dental and vision coverage, Employee Assistance Program, 401(k), tuition reimbursement, employee resource groups, recognition, and much more. Our culture offers flexible time off plans, including paid parental leave (maternal and paternal), vacation and holiday leave.

Our compensation philosophy is simple: we pay a competitive base salary, within the local market in which we operate, and reward performance during our annual merit review process. The salary range for this role is $90,000 – $110,000 annually, commensurate with the skills, talent, capabilities, and experience each candidate brings to a role.

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