Health & Safety Specialist

Continental•Mount Vernon, IL

3d•Onsite

About The Position

The Health & Safety Specialist supports the development, implementation, maintenance, and continual improvement of the ESSH Management System and Process Governance Framework. The role maintains management-system documentation, maps and improves business processes, tracks compliance obligations, supports performance reporting and data quality, administers document control and records management, and helps ensure audit readiness. The specialist also coordinates corrective and preventive action tracking and supports root-cause analysis and continuous improvement. The position includes ensuring ESH procedures, policies, and legal requirements are implemented and monitored. Work takes place in a non-climate-controlled environment with temperature swings, substantial heat, forklift and pedestrian traffic, and noise. Physical tasks include lifting, bending, stooping, pushing, pulling, and operating machinery; comprehensive training is provided.

Requirements

Associate's degree in Occupational Safety & Health, Environmental Science, Engineering, Industrial Technology, or a related field.
At least 3 years of safety experience in manufacturing or heavy industrial environments.
Legal authorization to work in the United States; the employer will not sponsor employment visas now or in the future.
Adherence to safety procedures and guidelines, including wearing hearing protection and steel-toe shoes.
Ability to perform physical tasks including lifting, bending, stooping, pushing, pulling, and operating machinery.

Nice To Haves

5 years of experience in manufacturing, industrial operations, or construction safety.
Bachelor's degree in Occupational Safety & Health, Environmental Science, Engineering, Industrial Technology, or a related field.

Responsibilities

Support implementation, maintenance, and continuous improvement of the ESSH Management System and its standards, procedures, tools, and governance practices.
Coordinate management-system reviews, assessments, and improvement initiatives; help evaluate effectiveness and identify improvement opportunities.
Maintain management-system documentation and records, and support standardization of ESSH practices across the organization.
Support development and maintenance of the ESSH Process Governance Framework.
Document, map, maintain, and improve ESSH processes, workflows, procedures, work instructions, process maps, workflow diagrams, responsibility matrices, and related documentation.
Translate regulatory requirements, organizational commitments, and business objectives into structured and sustainable processes.
Work with stakeholders to clarify process responsibilities, workflow requirements, escalation protocols, and performance measures.
Evaluate processes for gaps, inefficiencies, redundancies, and improvement opportunities; facilitate initiatives that improve consistency, accountability, effectiveness, and management-system maturity.
Support integration of ESSH requirements into business operations and promote process governance practices.
Develop and maintain ESSH compliance calendars, schedules, recurring-activity tracking systems, obligation registers, and related records.
Support identification and tracking of regulatory requirements, permits, inspections, certifications, reporting obligations, and organizational commitments.
Monitor recurring activity status and provide visibility into upcoming, completed, overdue, and at-risk requirements.
Prepare materials for management and compliance reviews and leadership updates; assist in developing compliance-status and risk reporting tools.
Support ESSH performance metrics, dashboards, scorecards, and reporting tools; promote data quality and conduct routine validation and quality assurance.
Analyze performance trends and assist with monthly, quarterly, and annual ESSH reporting and data collection, validation, analysis, and reporting processes.
Administer the ESSH document control program and maintain controlled policies, procedures, standards, forms, manuals, and management-system documentation.
Coordinate document reviews, revisions, approvals, distribution, and archiving; support records retention and regulatory recordkeeping and maintain audit-ready documentation.
Support preparation for internal and external audits, regulatory inspections, customer assessments, and certification activities.
Coordinate audit evidence collection and organization; maintain audit schedules, findings logs, action trackers, and related records.
Assist with management-system assessments, compliance reviews, gap analyses, and corrective and preventive action development, tracking, and documentation.
Monitor actions arising from audits, inspections, incidents, assessments, and management reviews; support root-cause analysis, lessons learned, and evaluation of corrective-action effectiveness.
Identify opportunities to strengthen management-system performance and process effectiveness and support projects advancing ESSH maturity and operational excellence.
Ensure ESH procedures, policies, and legal requirements are implemented and monitored.