EHS Specialist - Sevillo

Overview

Location: Sevillo Fine Foods – West Jordan, UT

FLSA Status: Exempt

Department: Environmental Health & Safety (EHS)

Reports To: EHS Manager / Plant Director

The Safety Specialist is responsible for supporting and maintaining a safe, compliant, work environment in a fresh-cut, grilling and quick-frozen food processing facility. There is also opportunity to support a spice blending operation at an additional facility. This role focuses on injury prevention, regulatory compliance, employee training, and continuous improvement of safety programs. The ideal candidate has hands-on manufacturing or food processing experience and is comfortable working on the production floor in a fast-paced, cold-environment setting.

• Safety & Compliance:
  Implement, monitor, and enforce safety programs in compliance with OSHA, EPA, and applicable state and local regulations
• Safety & Compliance:
  Conduct routine safety audits, job hazard analyses (JHAs), and facility inspections
• Safety & Compliance:
  Support compliance with GMPs, sanitation, and food safety requirements as they relate to employee safety
• Safety & Compliance:
  Assist with regulatory inspections and internal audits; help prepare corrective action plans

• Incident Management:
  Investigate workplace injuries, near misses, and safety incidents
• Incident Management:
  Identify root causes and recommend corrective and preventive actions
• Incident Management:
  Track and analyze safety metrics (injury rates, trends, corrective actions)

• Training & Employee Engagement:
  Deliver safety training for new hires and existing employees (e.g., PPE, lockout/tagout, machine safety, knife safety, ergonomics, chemical handling)
• Training & Employee Engagement:
  Support a strong safety culture through employee engagement, coaching, and safety committees
• Training & Employee Engagement:
  Ensure training documentation is accurate and up to date

• Program Support:
  Assist in maintaining EHS documentation, policies, and procedures
• Program Support:
  Support emergency response planning, drills, and preparedness
• Program Support:
  Collaborate with operations, sanitation, maintenance, and QA teams to integrate safety into daily activities

Required

• 1–5 years of safety experience in manufacturing, food processing, or a related industrial environment
• Working knowledge of OSHA regulations and general safety principles
• Experience conducting incident investigations and safety training
• Strong communication skills and ability to work effectively with hourly and salaried employees
• Comfortable working in cold, wet, and fast-paced production environments

Preferred

• Experience in fresh-cut produce, food processing, or refrigerated facilities
• Familiarity with FSMA, GMPs, and food safety systems
• OSHA 30-Hour certification or equivalent (or ability to obtain)
• Associate’s degree, preferably in Safety, Industrial Hygiene, Environmental Health, or related field
• Flexibility to travel as/when required
• Bilingual in English and Spanish.

• Ability to prioritize and learn quickly
• Good verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to multitask
• Strong attention to detail
• Strong organizational skills
• Analytical and mechanically inclined
• Must be able to add, subtract, multiply, and divide
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office, especially Excel
• Ability to collaborate cross-functionally with Maintenance, Product, QA and Sanitation
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, compliance-driven environment
• Ability to lift 55lbs

The physical requirements described here represent those that an employee must meet to perform the essential functions of this job successfully. Reasonable accommodations may be provided to help individuals with disabilities perform these vital functions. The job typically requires standing and walking for extended periods of time on the production floor. Exposure to cold temperatures, wet environments, and food processing equipment.

Ability to wear required PPE, including hair nets, gloves, and protective footwear

This document in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee occupying this position.

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