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Your Role:

Connect to meaningful work. Feed the world. Achieve your higher purpose.

What if your ideas could nourish the world? As an associate, we transfer your knowledge and skills into profound experiences that positively impact our global community. From food to transportation, your innovative solutions, collaboration and dedication will evolve industries to take on tomorrow's greatest challenges. And that's just the beginning. Because when your skills meet our unrivaled network and breadth of opportunity, your career is without bounds. Join our community to realize the impact of your work, help people around the world and connect with something greater.

Environmental Health & Safety Generalist Associate 2025 (Multiple U.S. Locations)

This position will provide subject matter knowledge that aligns with environmental, health and safety regulations. We seek a professional who will help develop, implement, and maintain processes and programs that align with federal, state, and local regulations and requirements. In this role, you will lead in a low complexity facility or support a higher-complexity facility. You will supervise and take ownership for up to three highly hazardous processes; low-to-high serious injuries and fatalities, potential serious environmental events or sites with low-to[1]high maturity. Your purview will be for basic issues, for which your supervisor will support you. For more sophisticated matters you will call out matters to those above you, such as your supervisor or other tenured staff.

Your Work:

Build effective emergency response plan, train workforce and coordinate test plans on a defined frequency and validate emergency action plan

Support determination of suitable training content and delivery mode, in line with global and regional

requirements, conduct gap assessment to identify training needs, adjusting curriculum to reflect site-specific needs

Participate in incident investigations based on incident classification in partnership with specialists internally

and externally or regulatory authorities to identify the root cause and help prevent recurrence

Prepare and support execution of audits for the company, governmental inspections, and customer visits

Identify data and reports needed to supervise performance and compliance against goals

Understand risks applicable to contractor and external service providers, implement, over see, and evaluate approved processes to control risks with contractors

Build and execute controls and programs and ensure they work as planned

Implement and own processes for hazard identification and risk management

Other duties as assigned

Our Benefits:

No matter who you are or where you are, we’ve designed our plans and programs to meet your needs. We want to help you take care of what’s needed for today and offer protection to help with tomorrow’s what-ifs.  You’ll have access to a wide variety of flexible and inclusive programs to meet your health, financial, and work/life needs to support you and help you succeed. Eligible programs and incentives include:  

Paid holidays and floating holidays

Paid time off

Comprehensive health care plans

Short term and long-term incentives

Mental Health and Wellbeing program

Digital Learning Library

Retirement plans

Paid time to participate in volunteer and community outreach opportunities

Tuition reimbursement programs

Relocation benefits for those that qualify

*Minnesota-based employees: Minnesota Sick and Safe Leave accruals of one hour for every 30 worked, up to 48 hours per calendar year unless otherwise provided by law.

Our Vibrant Community:

At Cargill, you will be a part of our vibrant global community with a culture that celebrates diversity. This is a reflection of the clients we serve and generates an intellectually diverse set of employees. Business Resource Groups (BRGs) help us embrace our diversity, make our culture more inclusive and enhance our employees’ outstanding talents and perspectives to benefit our organization and employees.

Our U.S. Business Resource Groups include:

Asian Alliance Network, Cargill Young Professionals Network, Cargill Ability Network (iCAN), Cargill Ebony Council, Group Responsible for Orienting and Welcoming (GROW), Hispanic-Latino Council, Cargill Pride Network, Veterans & Military Support Network, and Cargill Women’s Network.

Job Locations: Dodge City, KS Potential business areas: Salt, Cargill Agricultural Supply Chain, North America (CASC NA), Protein, & Cargill, Starches, Sweeteners and Texturizers (CSST).Must be willing to work in a plant settingRequired Qualifications:

Have earned a Bachelors degree or be pursing a Master’s degree from an accredited program in engineering, ergonomics/human factors, occupational safety, environmental sciences, fire safety, safety, or related degree graduating between December 2024 and May 2025.

Right to work in the U.S. that is not based solely on possession of a student visa or a visa sponsored by a third-party employer.

Willing and able to relocate

Strong communication skills – written and oral

Preferred Qualifications:

Past experiences of interpersonal work with individuals from a diverse set of backgrounds and cultures

Knowledge of food safety standards

Knowledge of science and math

Communication skills, both written and oral

Basic discernment for business processes

Build and collaborate on processes, fully utilizing company resources

Contribute, as a team member and individual

Key Behaviors:

Optimize work process, know the most effective and efficient processes to accomplish work, with a focus on continuous improvement

Lead and make sense of sophisticated, high-quantity, and sometimes contradictory, information to seek problems

Environmental Health & Safety track with demonstrated leadership experience in this area.

Hold self and others accountable to meet commitments

Compensation The expected salary for this position is $68,000. The disclosed salary has not been adjusted for the applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the position may be filled. 

At Cargill we put people first.  As part of your overall rewards, we offer a comprehensive benefit program including medical and/or other benefits dependent on the position offered and hours worked. 

Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Vet.