Environmental, Health & Safety Specialist

Environmental, Health & Safety Specialist

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Our Client is seeking an experienced Environmental, Health & Safety Specialist to support Environmental, Health & Safety programs at its Alexandria, Virginia facility. The organization is a leading global food manufacturing and culinary solutions company serving food service, retail, and commercial customers.

This is a hands‑on, fully on‑site position responsible for implementing, maintaining, and continuously improving EHS programs within a high‑volume food manufacturing environment. The successful candidate will conduct workplace inspections and risk assessments, investigate incidents, support regulatory compliance, deliver employee safety training, monitor corrective actions, and work closely with site leadership to promote a strong safety culture.

Alexandria, VA 22301

Full-Time

$70,000 – $75,000 per year

• Implement, maintain, and continuously improve EHS policies, procedures, programs, and training materials.
• Conduct new-hire safety orientations and refresher safety training.
• Monitor OSHA, EPA, state, and local regulatory requirements.
• Evaluate workplace hazards and recommend engineering, administrative, and PPE controls.
• Track EHS metrics, trends, KPIs, and corrective actions.
• Prepare EHS reports and presentations for management.
• Maintain accurate, organized, and audit‑ready EHS documentation.

• Conduct routine safety inspections, audits, and workplace risk assessments.
• Inspect production areas, sanitation areas, warehouses, coolers/freezers, maintenance areas, loading docks, and chemical storage areas.
• Identify hazards associated with machinery, automated equipment, material handling, sanitation chemicals, thermal processes, refrigerated environments, and production activities.
• Identify unsafe conditions and behaviors and recommend corrective actions.
• Track corrective and preventive actions through verified closure.
• Partner with operational leaders to ensure safety controls are effective and sustainable.

• Lead or support investigations involving workplace injuries, illnesses, near misses, and other incidents.
• Perform root‑cause analysis and identify contributing factors.
• Develop corrective and preventive action plans.
• Monitor corrective actions through completion.
• Analyze incident trends and recommend proactive injury‑prevention strategies.
• Maintain OSHA injury and illness records, including OSHA 300 logs and related documentation.
• Support workers' compensation‑related safety activities when required.
• Communicate investigation findings and prevention recommendations to management and employees.

• Support compliance with applicable OSHA, EPA, fire code, workers' compensation, state, local, and company requirements.
• Maintain documentation required for internal and external audits.
• Support regulatory inspections and documentation requests.
• Maintain records related to safety inspections, audits, employee training, workplace incidents, environmental activities, permits, chemical inventories, corrective actions, and regulatory compliance.
• Assist with environmental permits and regulatory reporting requirements.

• Deliver safety training to employees, supervisors, contractors, and other personnel.
• Develop and update safety training materials.
• Provide training on PPE, Hazard Communication/Haz Com, Lockout/Tagout (LOTO), Machine Guarding, Forklift and Pedestrian Safety, Chemical Handling, Emergency Response, Ergonomics, Slip/Trip/Fall Prevention, Confined Space Awareness, and General Workplace Safety.
• Coach supervisors and frontline leaders on hazard…