EHS Specialist, Salt Lake City, UT

Join Komatsu as an EHS Specialist in Salt Lake City, UT! In this high-visibility role, you will provide leadership and direction for Environmental Health and Safety initiatives across regional and site operations for a construction equipment dealership. You'll ensure compliance with federal, state, customer, and company EHS standards, and play a key part in advancing our EHS culture and operational excellence.

While you're based in our Salt Lake City, UT office, you'll spend 25% of your time out in the field, with up to 50% travel across Utah, Nevada, and Wyoming to ensure safety compliance, training, and strong customer alignment. Travel is generally scheduled in advance, with occasionalemergency needs after hours.

You'll work with employees, customers, and regulatory agencys to ensure safety and compliance with OSHA, MSHA, environmental law, and more. You'll schedule and conduct training, work on reports, use Avetta and ISNet, handle site and workplace inspections, visit MSHA &Part 46 locations, and interact with customers.

• Lead and implement regional and site EHS policies, procedures, and best management practices.
• Oversee all EHS activities to ensure compliance with national, customer, and company standards, aligning with Komatsu's corporate mandates.
• Guide and develop EHS representatives, setting goals and strategic direction.
• Analyze, document, and communicate corrective actions for all incidents of loss (injury, illness, liability, property, near miss); lead investigations for significant incidents.
• Collect, analyze, and report key EHS performance metrics regularly (daily, monthly, quarterly, annually).
• Drive pollution prevention and waste minimization efforts to reduce facility waste management costs.
• Ensure compliance with California OSHA and environmental regulations; interpret and implement regulatory changes, and facilitate related training.
• Assure environmental compliance (air permits, hazardous waste, stormwater, emergency reporting, etc.).
• Champion Komatsu's EHS culture, lead by example, and act as a change agent for EHS integration into core business processes.
• Provide technical guidance, education, and mentoring to managers, supervisors, and employees.
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  Attend daily lineouts with operations teams
  
  
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  Conduct inspections, audits, facility walkthroughs, and hazard assessments
  
  
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  Engage in conversations with technicians, supervisors, and customer representatives
  
  
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  Track and manage compliance in ISNetworld and Avetta
  
  
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  Lead or assist with safety presentations and team meetings
  
  
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  Schedule and deliver established training programs including:
  

  
  
  • Fall Protection
  • Working at Heights
  • Critical Risk Training
  • Cardinal Rules
  • New Hire Training
  • Stormwater Pollution Prevention
  • Environmental compliance
  
  

  
  
  
  
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  Support incident investigations and documentation
  
  
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  Prepare and submit required customer documentation for project approval
  
  
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  Serve as a resource to field teams and respond to occasional after-hours safety calls (e.g., post-incident drug testing)
  
  
• Lead internal audits, support corrective action implementation, and ensure documentation of issue closure.
• Support corporate monitoring, record keeping, and reporting to demonstrate compliance.

• 5+ years with MSHA
• Bachelor's degree in Safety, Health and Environmental Management or a related field preferred but not required if candidate has relevant work experience
• 5-7 years of practical EHS experience in heavy industrial, manufacturing, or mining sectors
• Professional certifications such as CSP, CRSP, or CMSP are desirable.
• Strong knowledge of federal, state, and local EHS regulations (OSHA, MSHA, DOT, EPA, etc.).
• OSHA 500 Train the Trainer or equivalent training expertise in DOT, EPA, hazardous communication, WHMIS, confined space, fall protection, respiratory protection, hoisting/rigging, aerial work platforms, and behavioral safety management is a plus.
• Experience with Workers' Compensation Claims Management and best practices.
• Excellent interpersonal, leadership, and communication skills.
• Ability to plan, prioritize, and execute EHS initiatives and lead organizational change.
• Proficient computer skills.
• Willingness to travel overnight (up to 50% of the time) to geographic locations several hours away
• Ability to work in office, shop/warehouse, and field (mine-site) environments.