If you have experience in Environment, Health, and Safety and are motivated by making a real-world impact, Emerson offers an opportunity to grow your capabilities while helping create a safer, more sustainable workplace! Based at our Shakopee, Minnesota campus, this role plays a key part in advancing environmental compliance and stewardship while supporting broader safety and health initiatives. As an Environmental Specialist , you will partner across the site to strengthen compliance, prevent risk, and foster a culture where people and the environment are protected and valued. Your work will directly contribute to pollution prevention, waste management, sustainable operations, and overall environmental performance.

In This Role, Your Responsibilities Will Be:

Support the implementation and maintenance of environmental compliance programs, policies, procedures, and recordkeeping systems to help ensure compliance with federal, state, local, and corporate environmental requirements.
Assist with environmental training and awareness programs related to hazardous waste, chemical management, air emissions, wastewater, stormwater, spill prevention, and environmental reporting requirements.
Participate in environmental compliance inspections, audits, and gap assessments while helping track corrective actions and compliance improvement activities.
Assist in evaluating site operations, equipment, processes, and chemical use to help identify environmental risks and support implementation of appropriate controls.
Support environmental monitoring activities, industrial hygiene sampling coordination, routine inspections, and maintenance of required environmental records and documentation.
Assist with environmental incident, spill, release, and near miss investigations, including documentation, corrective action tracking, and follow-up activities.
Support environmental permitting, regulatory reporting, agency inspections, and sustainability initiatives under the direction of site EHS leadership.
Partner with operations, maintenance, engineering, and site personnel to promote environmental compliance awareness and support continuous improvement initiatives.

Who You Are:

You engage in collaborative planning. You solicit both input and discussion. You stay aligned with your goals and stay productive. You relate comfortably with people across levels, functions, cultures, and geography. You acquire data from multiple and diverse sources when solving problems. You convert ideas into actions and produce results with new initiatives. You align words and actions to model reliability. You deal comfortably with the uncertainty of change.

For This Role, You Will Need:

Bachelor’s degree, preferably in Occupational Safety & Health, Safety Management, Engineering, Industrial Hygiene, or Chemistry. Bachelor’s degree in a different discipline may be considered with applicable job experience.
Minimum of one year of experience as a practitioner in an Environment, Health and Safety role, with applied knowledge of relevant EPA, OSHA, state regulatory and industry standards
Legal authorization to work in the United States

Preferred Qualifications That Set You Apart:

Professional Certification (ASP, CHMM, etc.)
Experience in facilitating incident investigations and root cause analysis

Our Culture & Commitment to You:

At Emerson, we prioritize a workplace where every employee is valued, respected, and empowered to grow. We foster an environment that encourages innovation, collaboration, and diverse perspectives—because we know that great ideas come from great teams. Our commitment to ongoing career development and growing an inclusive culture ensures you have the support to thrive. Whether through mentorship, training, or leadership opportunities, we invest in your success so you can make a lasting impact. We believe diverse teams, working together are key to driving growth and delivering business results.

We recognize the importance of employee wellbeing. We prioritize providing flexible, competitive benefits plans to meet you and your family’s physical, mental, financial, and social needs. We provide a variety of medical insurance plans, with dental and vision coverage, Employee Assistance Program, 401(k), tuition reimbursement, employee resource groups, recognition, and much more. Our culture offers flexible time off plans, including paid parental leave (maternal and paternal), vacation and holiday leave.

Our compensation philosophy is simple: we pay a competitive base salary, within the local market in which we operate, and reward performance during our annual merit review process. The salary range for this role is $75,000–$90,000 annually, commensurate with the skills, talent, capabilities, and experience each candidate brings to a role.

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WHY EMERSON

Our Commitment to Our People

At Emerson, we are motivated by a spirit of collaboration that helps our diverse, multicultural teams across the world drive innovation that makes the world healthier, safer, smarter, and more sustainable. And we want you to join us in our bold aspiration.

We have built an engaged community of inquisitive, dedicated people who thrive knowing they are welcomed, trusted, celebrated, and empowered to solve the world’s most complex problems — for our customers, our communities, and the planet. You’ll contribute to this vital work while further developing your skills through our award-winning employee development programs. We are a proud corporate citizen in every city where we operate and are committed to our people, our communities, and the world at large. We take this responsibility seriously and strive to make a positive impact through every endeavor.

At Emerson, you’ll see firsthand that our people are at the center of everything we do. So, let’s go. Let’s think differently. Learn, collaborate, and grow. Seek opportunity. Push boundaries. Be empowered to make things better. Speed up to break through. Let’s go, together.

Work Authorization

Emerson will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States. This is not a position for which sponsorship will be provided. Individuals with temporary visas such as E, F-1(including those with OPT or CPT) , H-1, H-2, L-1, B, J or TN, or who need sponsorship for work authorization now or in the future, are not eligible for hire.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Emerson is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, color, religion, national origin, age, marital status, political affiliation, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, disability or protected veteran status. We are committed to providing a workplace free of any discrimination or harassment.

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ABOUT EMERSON

Emerson is a global leader in automation technology and software. Through our deep domain expertise and legacy of flawless execution, Emerson helps customers in critical industries like life sciences, energy, power and renewables, chemical and advanced factory automation operate more sustainably while improving productivity, energy security and reliability.

With global operations and a comprehensive portfolio of software and technology, we are helping companies implement digital transformation to measurably improve their operations, conserve valuable resources and enhance their safety.

We offer equitable opportunities, celebrate diversity, and embrace challenges with confidence that, together, we can make an impact across a broad spectrum of countries and industries. Whether you’re an established professional looking for a career change, an undergraduate student exploring possibilities, or a recent graduate with an advanced degree, you’ll find your chance to make a difference with Emerson. Join our team – let’s go!

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