Environmental Health and Safety Specialist

Job Description

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.

• 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

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. 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

• Two to Four years of experience as a practitioner
• Professional Certification (CSP, ASP, CIH, etc.)
• Experience in facilitating incident investigations and root cause analysis

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.

Emerson will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States. This is not a position for which sponsorship will be provided. Individuals with temporary visas such as E, F‑1 (including those with OPT or CPT), H‑1, H‑2, L‑1, B, J or TN, or who need sponsorship for work authorization now or in the future, are not eligible for hire.

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 any discrimination or harassment.