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Health, Safety and Environment Engineer - Senior (On-site)

Cummins
United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 21 Aug 2025

About the role

We are looking for a talented Health, Safety and Environment Engineer - Senior to join our team specializing in Health and Safety; onsite in Seymour, IN. 

In this role, you will make an impact in the following ways:

  • Promote Safety Culture: Actively demonstrate safety awareness and foster a positive health, safety, and environmental culture, coaching others to do the same.
  • Engage Employees: Ensure employees are consulted and given opportunities to contribute to the development and implementation of programs, policies, and procedures.
  • Provide Technical Expertise: Work cross-functionally to improve hazard prevention, risk control measures, and corrective actions, driving continual improvement within the site(s).
  • Support Daily Operations: Contribute to daily health, safety, and environmental operations, providing support to solve complex technical issues.
  • Lead Risk Assessments: Conduct hazard identification, environmental aspect identification, and risk assessment programs to identify improvement opportunities and compliance gaps.
  • Drive Hazard Prevention Systems: Set targets and objectives for designing, implementing, and maintaining complex hazard prevention and control systems to reduce or eliminate potential risks.
  • Develop Training Programs: Lead training, skills development, and internal communications related to hazard prevention and control for employees within the site(s).
  • Evaluate and Improve Compliance: Assess site health, safety, and environmental data, legal compliance findings, and audit results to develop improvement plans using a risk-based, data-driven approach.

To be successful in this role, you will need the following:

  • Balance Stakeholders: Anticipate and balance the needs of multiple stakeholders, ensuring their concerns are addressed and integrated into decision-making processes.
  • Collaborate Effectively: Build strong partnerships and work collaboratively with others to achieve shared objectives, fostering a cooperative and productive work environment.
  • Drive Engagement: Create a climate where people are motivated to do their best, helping the organization achieve its objectives through effective leadership and encouragement.
  • Investigate Incidents: Conduct thorough, evidence-based investigations of health, safety, and environmental incidents, performing accurate root cause analysis to implement effective corrective actions and prevent recurrence.
  • Manage HSE Systems: Interpret and apply international standards to achieve and maintain an effective health, safety, and environmental management system, ensuring compliance and external certification.
  • Implement Risk Controls: Select and implement sustainable risk control measures using the hierarchy of controls to protect people and reduce overall risks.
  • Influence HSE Culture: Champion positive health and safety behaviors, influencing leaders and employees to create a supportive and safe environment.
  • Ensure Regulatory Compliance: Identify, interpret, and manage legal and other requirements, implementing controls and monitoring performance to ensure compliance with health, safety, and environmental regulations.
  • Evaluate HSE Performance: Collect and analyze data to create key performance indicators, evaluate trends, set improvement goals, inform strategy, and protect employees and the environment.
  • Conduct Risk Assessments: Apply hazard identification and risk assessment techniques to analyze and prioritize risks, selecting control measures to reduce risks as low as reasonably practicable.
  • Deliver Training: Instruct learners in an engaging manner, adjusting to individual and group needs to ensure knowledge, skills, and abilities are effectively applied on the job.

Education, Licenses, Certifications:

  • College, university, or equivalent degree required. 
  • Health, Safety and/or Environmental degree preferred. Professional certification in HSE-related field preferred.

Experience:

  • Intermediate level of experience required, including experience in application of Industrial Safety standards and implementation of risk controls. 
  • Minimal management experience preferred.

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