Environmental Specialist

Job Description

Based at our Shakopee, Minnesota campus, this role plays a key part in advancing environmental compliance and stewardship while supporting broader safety and health initiatives. As an Environmental Specialist, you will partner across the site to strengthen compliance, prevent risk, and foster a culture where people and the environment are protected and valued. Your work will directly contribute to pollution prevention, waste management, sustainable operations, and overall environmental performance.

• Support the implementation and maintenance of environmental compliance programs, policies, procedures, and record‑keeping systems to help ensure compliance with federal, state, local, and corporate environmental requirements.
• Assist with environmental training and awareness programs related to hazardous waste, chemical management, air emissions, wastewater, stormwater, spill prevention, and environmental reporting requirements.
• Participate in environmental compliance inspections, audits, and gap assessments while helping track corrective actions and compliance improvement activities.
• Assist in evaluating site operations, equipment, processes, and chemical use to help identify environmental risks and support implementation of appropriate controls.
• Support environmental monitoring activities, industrial hygiene sampling coordination, routine inspections, and maintenance of required environmental records and documentation.
• Assist with environmental incident, spill, release, and near‑miss investigations, including documentation, corrective action tracking, and follow‑up activities.
• Support environmental permitting, regulatory reporting, agency inspections, and sustainability initiatives under the direction of site EHS leadership.
• Partner with operations, maintenance, engineering, and site personnel to promote environmental compliance awareness and support continuous improvement initiatives.

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.

• Bachelor’s degree, preferably in Occupational Safety & Health, Safety Management, Engineering, Industrial Hygiene, or Chemistry. A Bachelor’s degree in a different discipline may be considered with applicable job experience.
• Minimum of one year 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.

• Professional Certification (ASP, CHMM, etc.)
• Experience in facilitating incident investigations and root cause analysis.

The salary range for this role is $75,000–$90,000 annually, commensurate with the skills, talent, capabilities, and experience each candidate brings to a role.

Emerson is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, color, religion, national origin, age, marital status, political affiliation, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, disability, or protected veteran status. We are committed to providing a workplace free of discrimination or harassment.