2027 Environmental Health & Safety Specialist

As a Textron employee, you’ll take on meaningful work from day one—contributing to real projects and collaborating with experienced team members across the business. This entry-level opportunity is designed to help you build your skills, gain exposure across functions, and grow through hands-on experience, mentorship, and development opportunities.

Textron is a global Fortune 500 company with a diverse portfolio of industry leading brands, including Bell, Beechcraft, Cessna, Pipistrel, Jacobsen, Kautex, Lycoming, E-Z-GO, and Textron Systems. We foster a culture where curiosity is encouraged, ideas are valued, and innovation drives real-world solutions.

Join Textron and build a career where your work makes an impact, your ideas are valued, and your growth is supported.

Responsibilities: 
 

• Examine work environments for various physical, chemical, biological, and environmental hazards and stresses and make recommendations for improvements to process and equipment. 

• Conduct activities that measure and improve workplace safety culture. 

• Implement corrective actions for stresses that impair employee health and efficiency. 

• Interpret OSHA standards and regulations and maintain cooperative relationship with OSHA. 

• Monitor and support a robust process for incident investigation and failure analysis of environmental, health and safety incidents. 

• Conduct health and safety training courses for supervisors and employees, as needed. 

• Provide technical expertise and assistance in the design of protective equipment for uses on processes and machinery and redesign equipment to eliminate and reduce safety and health hazards as needed. 

• Manage aspects of workers compensation and act as a liaison to 3rd party claims management group. 

• Implement and monitor the effectiveness of Textron EHS standards and policies. 

• Coordinate activities involving outside regulatory agencies such as OSHA, EPA, etc. 

• Analyze proposed and final regulations for impacts to manufacturing operations. 

• Submit monthly, quarterly, semi-annual, or annual reports to federal, state, local and corporate offices as required. 

Education: Bachelor’s degree in environmental engineering, safety engineering, occupational safety, or related field required OR years of experience in lieu of degree.

 Years of Experience: P1 – 0-2 years of relevant experience with degree OR 4 years of relevant EHS experience in lieu of degree

Software Knowledge: Microsoft Office Suite preferred. 

Additional Requirements: Certified or ability to be certified in First Aid/CPR/AED required. 

Working knowledge of OSHA requirements and federal/state regulations, OSHA injury reporting preferred. Experience with emergency response protocols, powered industrial truck requirements, ISO 14001:2015 and ISO 45001, machine guarding, LOTO, and control of hazardous energy requirements preferred.