Environmental Health & Safety Specialist

fairlife, LLC is a Chicago-based nutrition company that creates great-tasting, nutrition-rich and dairy products to nourish consumers. With over $3B in annual retail sales, fairlife’s portfolio of delicious, lactose-free, real dairy products includes: fairlife® ultra-filtered milk ; Core Power® High Protein Shakes, a sports nutrition drink to support post-workout recovery; fairlife® nutrition plan™ , a nutrition shake to support the journey to better health. A wholly owned subsidiary of The Coca-Cola company, fairlife, LLC has been recognized by both Fast Company and Nielsen for its industry leading innovation. To learn more about fairlife and its complete line of products, please visit fairlife.com . job purpose : The Environmental, Health & Safety Specialist (EHS Specialist) will administer the Environmental, Health & Safety program activities for the production facility. The specialist provides a comprehensive range of Environmental, Health & Safety support and service to management and staff. Develops and implements Environmental, Health & Safety programs for the production facility. The primary objective of the role is to protect and enhance the safety of our employees and our site operations environmental footprint through prevention, fostering a culture where safety, health and environment are ingrained as a core value, achieving best in class performance in support of a highly efficient, low-cost operations via an EHS Journey to Zero approach. In the absence of the Sr. Environmental, Health & Safety Manager, the EHS Specialist will assume manager duties and responsibilities. responsibilities: Site SHE Culture: • Under the direction of the Site Sr. Environmental, Health & Safety Manager, Specialist leads/fosters/develops a culture where safety, health and environment are ingrained as a core value with all employees, everyone believes zero is achievable, everyone is actively engaged in performing their work in a safe manner, everyone actively interacts with co-workers to prevent at-risk behaviors. • Actively participates on the Site EHS Team and other assigned teams. • Effectively coaches and develops operations line supervision to be effective EHS leaders/coaches in their respective positions. • Participate in and support the cross-functional facilitation of the Safety Committee meetings EHS Strategies, Programs and Plans: • Implements health & safety programs, services, strategies, and initiatives that are responsive to the needs of the company’s facilities and guarantees close integration with overall company policy; monitors program efficiency, develops reporting procedures and other methods to measure success, and revises processes and procedures as necessary to improve program effectiveness. • Track and report safety KPI’s and safety performance for their site Compliance and technical expertise support: • Provides day-to-day guidance, technical expertise/ coaching and support to management regarding health & safety practices, interpretation of company health and safety policies, problem resolution, and compliance with federal and state law; develops and maintains written departmental procedures to guide management in the application of established health and safety processes and documentation. • Partners with other key functions on initiatives including Engineering, Operations, Quality, etc. to deliver on goals and plans. • Supports Sr. Site EHS Manager in meeting the site safety compliance reporting requirements Safety & Environmental Management Systems (SMS/ EMS) Verification: • Performs monthly Safety Inspections to ensure the SMS and EMS requirements are being met in the daily operations of the site so the team is always audit ready Incident Investigation and Analysis: • Performs formal incide