EHS Specialist - St. Louis MO
BASF · St Louis, MO · 4 wk ago
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We need to output HTML fragment with sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content. The posting includes description of role, responsibilities, requirements, qualifications, skills, benefits. No explicit pay or schedule. So we should not include Pay or Schedule sections. Also we should not include sections with filler like "commensurate with experience". So we will include About the role (maybe a short paragraph summarizing role?), Responsibilities (list), Requirements (list), Qualifications (list), Skills (list), Benefits (list). Need to preserve all substantive info, not invent or summarize away detail. Must not repeat job title as heading. Must not include Job ID etc. Must remove boilerplate like EEO, privacy statement, etc. Also remove duplicated lines. Must not include navigation, cookie, legal, etc.
We need to parse the posting and extract relevant content.
Let's extract:
Job title: EHS Specialist - St. Louis MO (but we don't repeat as heading).
About the role: The posting starts: "We are looking for an Environmental, Health, & Safety (EHS) Specialist to join our Agricultural Solutions team in St Louis, MO. As an EHS Specialist you will play an integral role in the success of a dynamic multisite chemical FFP facility with a diverse portfolio of small batch pesticide and herbicide products in addition to a quality lab and centralized warehouse. Collaborate across Quality, Production, Logistics, Engineering, Supply Chain teams and other site personnel to develop an impactful and positive safety culture. Maintain site regulatory compliance across local, state and federal agencies while also adhering to BASF internal standards. As a Responsible Care company, effectively manage applicable requirements at an audit ready state of operation."
Also later: "As a EHS Specialist - St. Louis MO, you create chemistry by..." then bullet list of responsibilities.
We can combine into About the role: a paragraph summarizing role.
Responsibilities: list from "As a EHS Specialist - St. Louis MO, you create chemistry by..." then bullet points:
- Collaborating across site functions and EHS teams to develop and support an EHS culture that improves the safety of day-to-day work activities and reduces risk and injuries.
- Ensuring site license to operate by managing the adherence to local, state and federal EHS regulatory requirements.
- Conduct site activities and submitting necessary documentation, reporting and/or data entry as needed in time/ recurrence as expected to meet obligations.
- Maintaining audit ready state for regulatory agencies and BASF Responsible Care Management System.
- Overseeing contractor safety and compliance.
- Providing required EHS site support such as incident investigations, MOC, RMP and SDS management.
- Overseeing environmental permitting and waste management.
- Providing the required EHS site support such as incident investigations, hazard communication, risk analysis, environmental management, process safety etc.
- Managing the onsite training program.
Note some duplication: "Providing required EHS site support such as incident investigations, ..." appears twice with slightly different items. We need to preserve all substantive info but avoid duplicated lines. We can combine or keep unique. The instruction: "Remove duplicated lines". So we should deduplicate.
Let's list unique responsibilities:
1. Collaborating across site functions and EHS teams to develop and support an EHS culture that improves the safety of day-to-day work activities and reduces risk and injuries.
2. Ensuring site license to operate by managing the adherence to local, state and federal EHS regulatory requirements.
3. Conduct site activities and submitting necessary documentation, reporting and/or data entry as needed in time/recurrence as expected to meet obligations.
4. Maintaining audit ready state for regulatory agencies and BASF Responsible Care Management System.
5. Overseeing contractor safety and compliance.
6. Providing required EHS site support such as incident investigations, MOC, RMP and SDS management.
7. Overseeing environmental permitting and waste management.
8. Providing required EHS site support such as incident investigations, hazard communication, risk analysis, environmental management, process safety etc.
9. Managing the onsite training program.
Note #6 and #8 overlap but have different items; we can keep both as they are distinct. Could combine but better keep both as they are separate bullet points.
Now Requirements: The posting has "If you..." then list:
- Have a Bachelor's degree in Chemistry, Biology, Engineering, or another related technical discipline, required.
- A Master's degree in Environmental Health & Safety (EHS), Industrial Hygiene (IH), Occupational Safety (OS), or a related field, is a plus.
- Bring 5 years demonstrated EHS experience in a manufacturing field (such as pharmaceuticals, agriculture, petrochemical, industrial fermentation, etc.), required
- Have previous regulatory agency experience, is a plus
- Hold an industrial hygiene certificate and/or monitoring experience, is a plus
- Have a collaborative “hands on” EHS attitude that enables and sustains a positive, impactful, regulatory compliant culture across plant functions and personnel, required.
- Have experience managing site industrial hygiene, personal protective equipment (PPE), and safety programs, required.
- Demonstrate strong technical, organizational, verbal, and written communication skills, required.
- Have experience implementing and operating the Risk Management Plan (RMP) under EPA’s Process Safety Management, is preferred
- Possess experience with EHS programs such as incident investigation, hazard communication, risk analysis, environmental management, process safety, etc., is preferred.
- Apply knowledge of EHS requirements necessary for hot work, confined space, line break, elevated work, control of hazardous energy and safe work permit, is preferred.
- Bring experience managing an EHS program under Responsible Care Management System (RCMS), is a plus.
- Have experience developing and managing an effective industrial training program across teams and expertise, is a plus.
We need to separate Requirements vs Qualifications vs Skills. The instruction: Use headings for sections like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We need to decide what goes where. Typically Requirements = mandatory qualifications; Qualifications = preferred or plus; Skills = abilities. But we can interpret as: Requirements = required items; Qualifications = preferred/plus items; Skills = technical/soft skills.
Let's extract required items:
- Bachelor's degree in Chemistry, Biology, Engineering, or another related technical discipline, required.
- 5 years demonstrated EHS experience in a manufacturing field (such as pharmaceuticals, agriculture, petrochemical, industrial fermentation, etc.), required.
- Have a collaborative “hands on” EHS attitude that enables and sustains a positive, impactful, regulatory compliant culture across plant functions and personnel, required.
- Have experience managing site industrial hygiene, personal protective equipment (PPE), and safety programs, required.
- Demonstrate strong technical, organizational, verbal, and written communication skills, required.
Also maybe "Conduct site activities..." is responsibility not requirement.
Now Qualifications (preferred/plus):
- A Master's degree in Environmental Health & Safety (EHS), Industrial Hygiene (IH), Occupational Safety (OS), or a related field, is a plus.
- Have previous regulatory agency experience, is a plus.
- Hold an industrial hygiene certificate and/or monitoring experience, is a plus.
- Have experience implementing and operating the Risk Management Plan (RMP) under EPA’s Process Safety Management, is preferred.
- Possess experience with EHS programs such as incident investigation, hazard communication, risk analysis, environmental management, process safety, etc., is preferred.
- Apply knowledge of EHS requirements necessary for hot work, confined space, line break, elevated work, control of hazardous energy and safe work permit, is preferred.
- Bring experience managing an EHS program under Responsible Care Management System (RCMS), is a plus.
- Have experience developing and managing an effective industrial training program across teams and expertise, is a plus.
Now Skills: Could be the communication skills etc but those are already in required. Maybe we separate technical skills like "incident investigation, hazard communication, risk analysis, environmental management, process safety" etc. But those appear in qualifications. Could create Skills section for things like "strong technical, organizational, verbal, and written communication skills" but that's already required. Might be redundant. Perhaps we can put Skills as a separate list of specific technical skills: incident investigation, hazard communication, risk analysis, environmental management, process safety, etc. But we need to avoid duplication. The instruction: "Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones." So maybe we combine Requirements and Qualifications into one? But headings are prescribed; we should only include sections that have real specific content. We could include Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits. If Skills ends up being thin, maybe we omit it. Let's see if we can derive meaningful Skills not covered elsewhere.
From responsibilities we have skills like: collaborating across functions, developing EHS culture, ensuring compliance, conducting site activities, maintaining audit readiness, overseeing contractor safety, providing EHS support (incident investigations, MOC, RMP, SDS), overseeing environmental permitting and waste management, managing onsite training program. Those are more responsibilities than skills.
From qualifications we have experience with EHS programs etc. Those could be considered skills.
Thus we could have Skills section listing: incident investigation, hazard communication, risk analysis, environmental management, process safety, MOC, RMP, SDS management, environmental permitting, waste management, onsite training management, contractor safety oversight, etc. But many of those appear in responsibilities. Might be duplication.
Given the instruction to avoid duplication, maybe we should not create a Skills section if it would duplicate. Instead we could put all required and preferred items under Requirements and Qualifications, and maybe combine them. But we need to follow headings: we can include Requirements and Qualifications only, and maybe Benefits. Skills could be omitted if no distinct content.
Let's examine the posting for any explicit "Skills" phrase: "Demonstrate strong technical, organizational, verbal, and written communication skills, required." That's a skill. Also "Have experience managing site industrial hygiene, personal protective equipment (PPE), and safety programs, required." That's more experience. "Have a collaborative “hands on” EHS attitude..." that's attitude.
Thus we could put communication skills under Skills. But we already have that as required. Could move to Skills.
Better to follow typical resume: Requirements = education + experience; Qualifications = certifications, plus; Skills = technical/soft skills.
Thus:
Requirements (required):
- Bachelor's degree in Chemistry, Biology, Engineering, or another related technical discipline.
- 5 years demonstrated EHS experience in a manufacturing field (such as pharmaceuticals, agriculture, petrochemical, industrial fermentation, etc.).
- Collaborative “hands on” EHS attitude that enables and sustains a positive, impactful, regulatory compliant culture across plant functions and personnel.
- Experience managing site industrial hygiene, personal protective equipment (PPE), and safety programs.
- Strong technical, organizational, verbal, and written communication skills.
Qualifications (preferred/plus):
- Master's degree in Environmental Health & Safety (EHS), Industrial Hygiene (IH), Occupational Safety (OS), or related field.
- Previous regulatory agency experience.
- Industrial hygiene certificate and/or monitoring experience.
- Experience implementing and operating the Risk Management Plan (RMP) under EPA’s Process Safety Management.
- Experience with EHS programs such as incident investigation, hazard communication, risk analysis, environmental management, process safety, etc.
- Knowledge of EHS requirements for hot work, confined space, line break, elevated work, control of hazardous energy and safe work permit.
- Experience managing an EHS program under Responsible Care Management System (RCMS).
- Experience developing and managing an effective industrial training program across teams and expertise.
Skills (maybe we can list specific technical skills from responsibilities):
- Incident investigation
- Hazard communication
- Risk analysis
- Environmental management
- Process safety
- Management of Change (MOC)
- RMP and SDS management
- Environmental permitting
- Waste management
- Onsite training program management
- Contractor safety oversight
- Collaboration across site functions
- Developing EHS culture
- Ensuring regulatory compliance
- Conducting site activities and documentation
- Maintaining audit ready state
But many of these are responsibilities. Might be too thin.
Given the instruction to prefer few substantive sections, maybe we