Sr. EHS Specialist

Location: Rock Island, TNFull-Time, Exempt

Your Impact: Starts HereWe're looking for a Senior EHS Specialist to lead and sustain environmental, health, and safety programs at the site level, reporting to the Regional EHS Manager. In this role, you'll serve as a key resource for operations, maintenance, engineering, human resources, occupational health, and site leadership, ensuring regulatory compliance, reducing risk, and strengthening employee engagement in proactive hazard identification. You'll operate with a high degree of independence, providing technical guidance to the site while leading incident investigations and program audits. This is an opportunity to drive continuous improvement across safety, health, environmental, and compliance initiatives at a hands-on, site-facing level. What You'll Build & OwnEHS Program Leadership Lead day-to-day execution of site EHS programs, ensuring requirements are current, documented, communicated, and consistently applied across all shifts and work areas Develop, maintain, and improve written EHS programs, procedures, JSAs, inspections, and training materials to address site-specific hazards and regulatory requirements Partner with site leadership to build accountability for safe work practices, timely corrective action closure, and proactive risk reduction Oversee the site EHS budget to support compliance, training, PPE, corrective actions, emergency preparedness, and risk-reduction priorities Incident Management & Risk Reduction Lead incident, near-miss, first-aid, and hazard investigations using root cause methodology; ensure corrective and preventive actions address systemic causes Classify and escalate serious injury and fatality potential events, significant hazards, and compliance concerns in alignment with EHS expectations Analyze incident trends, audit findings, near misses, and exposure data to identify risk patterns, recommend practical controls, and incorporate opportunities for coaching Inspections, Audits & Regulatory Compliance Plan and conduct routine safety walkthroughs, program audits, regulatory self-assessments, and compliance inspections; verify corrective actions are completed and effective Serve as the site EHS contact during corporate, third-party, customer, insurance, or regulatory reviews; prepare documentation and coordinate follow-up actions Maintain required EHS records, permit obligations, environmental compliance documentation, and regulatory reporting with accuracy and timeliness Training, Communication & Employee Engagement Develop, deliver, and maintain EHS training for regulatory, site-specific, and operational requirements, including new hire orientation, LOTO, PPE, hazard communication, emergency response, forklift/PIT, machine guarding awareness, hot work, confined space, and other applicable programs Track training completion, identify gaps, evaluate training effectiveness, and partner with supervisors to ensure employee understanding and accountability Coach employees, supervisors, and managers on hazard recognition, safe work expectations, incident reporting, and effective corrective action follow-through Occupational Health Partnership Collaborate with Occupational Health on first response, recordability support, exposure data, medical surveillance, return-to-work coordination, emergency response planning, and employee health-related EHS needs Partner with operations, maintenance, engineering, quality, contractors, and regional EHS resources to integrate safety and environmental expectations into daily operations, projects, equipment changes, and process improvements