Kettle Cuisine
EHS Specialist
- Location: Lynn, MA
- Position Type: Full-Time
Delicious Food and Meaningful Careers
At the heart of our company is a deep passion for creating fresh, healthy, and artisan-quality food that brings people together. We honor the craft of artisan cooking—using scratch-made stocks, hand-chopped herbs, and only the highest-quality ingredients—complemented by cutting-edge technology. This allows us to deliver consistently safe, exceptional products on a large scale.
But it’s not just about the food. Our culture is built on principles that shape how we grow, both as individuals and as a team. One of our core values, Honoring Development, guides us to actively seek out, celebrate, and nurture one another’s talents, strengths, and interests. By fostering each other’s growth, we strengthen our relationships and capabilities, driving both personal and professional success.
We also believe in Honoring Each Other. We surround ourselves with passionate people who share our love for great food. Through mutual respect and collaboration, we create an environment where employees are empowered to thrive, building trusting, and rewarding relationships with our clients, partners, and one another.
If you're looking for a place where your skills, passion, and ideas can flourish, we invite you to explore the opportunities available within our dynamic and supportive team, offering career paths in Massachusetts, Wisconsin, California, Washington, and Maryland.
Job Summary
The Environmental, Health and Safety Specialist (EH&S Specialist) is responsible for managing, oversee and administer the environmental, health, safety and security programs for the Lynn facility. Incumbent will ensure, promote, and continuously strive for a safe, secure, and healthy environment, company-wide, while monitoring compliance of all applicable laws.
As a leader in the facility for this function, the Specialist will provide coaching and direction to all leadership, employees and safety staff on policy and process interpretation, driving decisions to meet all environmental, safety and OSHA legislative requirements as well as establishing company policies and processes.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Partner with management team to develop and lead cultural transformation with respect to employee safety mindset through implementation of a behavior-based safety program across the business
- Achieve a reduction of hazards and risks
- Hazard and risk analysis/ improvement of audit scores
- Reduction of accidents/ improvement of scores
- Track, develop, report and administer key metrics in the area of safety incidents and worker’s compensation claim experience
- Lead internal accident investigations and root cause analysis and collaborates with leadership team to offer solutions
- Primary contact, working with Human Resources, for worker’s compensation carrier in order to investigate, report and follow-up on worker’s compensation claims and return to work programs
- Analyze OSHA and workers’ compensation injury and illness records to direct the implementation of specific loss prevention programs to prevent reoccurrence
- Lead a robust and active Safety Committee
- Insure regular and on-going health and safety activities are conducted and followed through on (i.e., weekly and annual internal audits, daily safety topic at employee huddles, PPE checks, etc.)
- Identifies and communicates key responsibilities and practices to ensure supervisors and managers promote a successful safety attitude, confidence in leadership’s commitment to safety, and teamwork to achieve improved results
- Manage initiatives that drive improvements in health and safety compliance and performance across the operation
- Implement, conduct and maintain plant safety training programs, JSA’s and SOP’s through use of Alchemy and other training programs
- Monitor developing EH&S federal, state, and local regulatory requirements and risk initiatives; analyze potential impacts to business system operations; provide management with recommendations and approach as appropriate
- Participates in company-wide special projects as required
- All other duties as assigned
Required Skills
- Associate’s degree in Safety, Industrial Hygiene, Environmental Science, Engineering or related field
- In lieu of an Associate’s degree, demonstrated experience in a safety role for a minimum of 3 years
- Experience in developing, implementing, and/or maintaining robust Behavior Based Safety Programs
- Strong knowledge of OSHA, state and federal regulations
- Knowledge of food manufacturing a plus
- Experience with LOTO, Confined Space, and PSM
- Knowledge of wastewater and storm water regulations
- Working knowledge of Process Safety with hazardous chemicals
- Ability to interact effectively with all levels of employees and leadership
- Strong written and verbal communication and presentation skills to all levels
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office suite
- Emphasis on education and learning
Desired Skills
- Self-starter able to conceptualize and drive initiatives forward
- Positive attitude and motivated by contributing to the overall success of the team
- Able to develop strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders
- Creative problem-solving skills
- Attention to detail, well organized and able to juggle many projects at once
- Comfortable moving at a fast-paced environments
- Willing to address difficult situations head on with patience and respect
Americans with Disabilities Act
Kettle Cuisine complies with all aspects of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and state disability laws. This means we will not discriminate against qualified individuals with a disability in any phase of the employment relationship including application for employment, hiring, promotions and/or advancement opportunities, termination, compensation, training and any other conditions or privileges of employment.
Core Values
Kettle Cuisine takes the utmost pride in its people, products and reputation. Each employee is expected to understand and live our Core Values every day.
Honor Food – We create and produce the best tasting, safest, all natural recipes that strive for perfection in every batch, from bench to kettle
Honor Each Other – We seek to develop trusting, respectful and mutually rewarding relationships with all our team members and business partners
Honor Development – We recognize and nurture each other’s talents, strengths and interests in order to further strengthen and grow our team
Honor Innovation – We continually strive for creative and sustainable ways to achieve excellence
Pay Range for EHS Specialist
The EHS Specialist base pay range $60,000 - 70,000 USD/annually. The listed salary range represents Kettle Cuisine’s good faith estimate for this position and represents the minimum and maximum for new hire salaries for the Lynn, MA location only. Ranges will be reviewed on a regular basis. An employee’s rate of pay within the range is determined by their qualifications, relevant experience, and demonstrated performance over time. In addition to those factors, we believe in the importance of pay equity and consider internal equity of our current team members as a part of any final offer. Hiring at the maximum of the range would not be typical to allow for future and continued salary growth. The EHS Specialist position is eligible for our comprehensive benefits package and is eligible for the annual discretionary bonus program up to 10%. Kettle Cuisine and all its legal entities comply with all federal, state, and local minimum wage laws.