EHS Manager M/F/D
Cargill is a family company committed to providing food and agricultural solutions to nourish the world in a safe, responsible, and sustainable way. We sit at the heart of the supply chain, partnering with producers and customers to source, make and deliver products that are vital for living. By providing customers with life’s essentials, we enable businesses to grow, communities to prosper, and consumers to live well.
This position is in our Food Enterprise where we are committed to serving food manufacturers, food service customers, and retailers with a complete range of innovative ingredients and branded products. Our portfolio includes poultry, beef, egg, alternative protein, salt, oils, starches, sweeteners, cocoa and chocolate.
Job Purpose and Impact
The EHS Manager will provide subject matter expertise in environmental, health, and safety compliance for our Redon site, classified as Seveso, ensuring strict adherence to regulatory requirements and fostering a strong safety culture. In this role, you will develop, implement, and maintain processes and programs to assure compliance with French and EU regulations, including close collaboration with the DREAL, for a complex operation involving highly hazardous processes and significant risk potential.
You will lead a small team (1 EHS Specialist and 1 intern) and act as a hands-on leader who thrives on the shop floor, influencing and engaging employees to embed EHS into daily operations.
This position requires a pragmatic professional - not just a theorist - who can convince, coach, and drive cultural change, while maintaining high standards following internal and external certifications.
Key Accountabilities
- Ensure full compliance with Seveso regulations and maintain strong relationships with regulatory authorities (e.g., DREAL).
- Execute controls and applicable control programs and document that control programs have been implemented as planned for very large and complex operation with high risk and exposure.
- Define, implement and lead processes for risks, hazards and opportunity identification and determine resources required to execute.
- Identify and review hazard, risk and opportunities on an ongoing and proactive basis and ensure that appropriate follow up actions are being implemented
- Lead action plans by identifying potential emergency situations, creating emergency communication plans that addresses operation or business disruptions, recovery and social media and testing and validating the emergency action plans.
- Promote environmental, health and safety culture through training and education solutions related to environmental, health and safety issues, practices and risks and coach others as the need arises.
- Prepare and execute audits and ensure compliance with legal and other requirements are met.
- Conduct incident investigations based on incident classification and liaise with engineers, management and health and safety regulatory authorities to identify causes of accidents and prevent their recurrence.
- Lead and develop a small team (1 EHS Specialist + 1 intern), including talent management, performance coaching, and engagement.
- Other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in EHS or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- Minimum requirement of 4 years of relevant work experience. Typically reflects 5 years or more of relevant experience.
Preferred Qualifications
- Two years of supervisory experience
- Strong knowledge of Seveso regulations and experience liaising with regulatory bodies (e.g., DREAL).
- Proven ability to influence and engage teams on the shop floor.
- Experience in food manufacturing or other high-risk industries.
- Strong communication and leadership skills with a pragmatic, hands-on approach.
- Previous supervisory experience.
- Familiarity with continuous improvement methodologies.
- Fluent in French; professional English proficiency.
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Our Offer
We provide a fast paced stimulating international environment, which will stretch your abilities and channel your talents. We also offer competitive salary and benefits combined with outstanding career development opportunities in one of the largest and most solid private companies in the world.
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