Health & Safety Specialist - Ames, IA

Job Purpose:  The Plant EHS Specialist is primarily responsible for working closely with the EH&S Manager, promoting and supporting the safety culture, and leading all safety and environmental programs for the plant. 

Key Accountabilities:

Safety:

• Support the plant safety committee bi-monthly meetings and follow up activities
• Support review of all incident investigations and ensure all necessary follow-up is completed
• Assist with audits, ensuring compliance with adherence and documentation of LOTO programs
• Support and promote safety recognition and celebration activities
• Participate in OSHA required training and programs
• Support tracking of the safety observation program
• Assist with annual required safety trainings
• Participate in safety on-boarding/orientations
• Support the coordination of hearing conservation program and ensure noise surveys are completed

Environmental:

• Support internal environmental audit activities 
• Support preparation of plant for ISO 14001 certification
• Comply with the environmental policies and procedures at Barilla Ames facility including energy efficiency, reduce – re-use – recycle goals, reporting requirements and sustainable initiatives. Complete any environmental tasks as assigned and report environmental concerns immediately.
• Follows ISO22000 policies and procedures, address / communicate quality and food safety issues as they occur. 

Additional Information:

• A Bachelor’s degree in occupational health and safety or related field or equivalent level of experience (1+ years) in safety and environmental experience at a plant facility. 
• Strong working knowledge of OSHA regulations desired.
• Experience in an ISO environment desired.
• This position will spend 50% of time climate controlled offices and 50% of time on the production floor.  This entails working in an environment of temperatures up to and exceeding 130° F, high humidity and 85-94 dB noise levels