EHS Senior Associate

Environmental Health and Safety

Your Work Shapes the World at Caterpillar Inc.

When you join Caterpillar, you're joining a global team who cares not just about the work we do – but also about each other. We are the makers, problem solvers, and future world builders who are creating stronger, more sustainable communities. We don't just talk about progress and innovation here – we make it happen, with our customers, where we work and live.

Together, we are building a better world, so we can all enjoy living in it.

To serve as an individual contributor on Environmental, Health and/or Safety (EHS) projects and assignments that support and enhance Caterpillar facility performance and compliance.

What you will do:

• Enable our business partners to build a strong and proactive EHS Culture, aligned around Safety Driven (care, learn and prevent serious injuries).
• Regularly collaborate and proactively coach teams in the factory (operations) as well as various support groups within the organization.
• Identifies common safety/health/environmental hazards inherent in the organization's operations and establishes guidelines for protection from, elimination of or proper management of those hazards.
• Ensures EHS training is completed to comply with regulatory requirements or in support of facility, division, or enterprise objectives.
• Audits safety/health/environmental programs for compliance and with company standards, government regulations, customer requirements and adequacy relative to local conditions.
• Conduct facility audits to identify unsafe conditions and recommend collaborative corrective actions with employees.
• Partner in incident learning teams, contributing factors, and corrective action development.
• Maintain EHS systems in alignment with division and enterprise, including incident reporting systems and support leading and lagging indicator tracking.
• Support Management of Change (MOC) processes and pre-task planning reviews.
• Assist with industrial hygiene activities such as air monitoring, noise surveys, exposure assessments and mitigation plans.
• Develop and enhance Risk Assessments for standard work tasks.
• Maintain accurate EHS records including training logs, inspection findings, and regulatory documentation.
• Prepare reports for internal leadership and regulatory agencies as required.
• Champion and conduct site level environmental activities and permitting, e.g. (air, water, waste) in collaboration with business environmental manager

What you will have:

Degree Requirement Degree in EHS or related field required.

Skill Descriptors

Process Management:
Knowledge of business process improvement tools and techniques; ability to understand, monitor, update, control, or enhance existing business or work processes.

Accuracy and Attention to Detail:
Understanding the necessity and value of accuracy; ability to complete tasks with high levels of precision.

Effective Communications:
Understanding of effective communication concepts, tools and techniques; ability to effectively transmit, receive, and accurately interpret ideas, information, and needs through the application of appropriate communication behaviors.

Influencing:
Knowledge of effective influencing tactics and strategies; ability to impact decisions within and outside own organization.

Initiative:
Being proactive and committing to action on self-identified job responsibilities and challenges; ability to seek out work and the drive to accomplish goals.

Managing Multiple Priorities:
Knowledge of effective self-management practices; ability to manage multiple concurrent objectives, projects, groups, or activities, making effective judgments as to prioritizing and time allocation.

Problem Solving:
Knowledge of approaches, tools, techniques for recognizing, anticipating, and resolving organizational, operational or process problems; ability to apply knowledge of problem solving appropriately to diverse situations.

Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) Policy Compliance:
Knowledge of Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) policies; ability to implement EHS policies to ensure that provided products and services are safe for people and the environment and in compliance with legal requirements and standards.

Partial relocation is available for this role

Summary Pay Range: $89,210.00 - $

Compensation and benefits offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, job level, market location, job-related knowledge, skills, individual performance and experience. Please note that salary is only one component of total compensation at Caterpillar.

This position requires working onsite five days a week. Visa Sponsorship is not available for this position.