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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.
Your Work Shapes the World
Whether it be groundbreaking products, best in class solutions or creating a lifelong career, you can do the work that matters at Caterpillar. With a 95-year legacy of quality and innovation and 150 locations in countries around the world, your impact spans the globe.
When you join Caterpillar, you are joining a team of makers, innovators, and doers. We are the people who roll up our sleeves and do the work to build a better world. We don’t just talk about progress and innovation. We make it happen. And we are proud of that, because it helps our customers build and power the world we live in – the roads, hospitals, homes, and infrastructure. Without a dedicated workforce Caterpillar could not effectively meet our customer’s needs. Join us.
Description
As an Environmental, Health and Safety (EHS) Specialists for our Caterpillar Technical Center facility, you will have an exciting opportunity to make a difference for Caterpillar people – employees, leaders, and the communities within which we live and work. If you are looking for a career that values collaboration, creating engaging partnerships that support all levels of the business, impacts on a global scale, and team culture, we encourage you to apply!
What you will do:
- Identifies common safety/health/environmental hazards inherent in the organization's operations and establishes guidelines for protection from 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 with company standards, government regulations, and adequacy relative to local conditions.
- Monitors periodic performance reports for trends and conditions and alerts line management to problems.
Skill Descriptors
Sustainability: Knowledge of sustainability strategy; ability to integrate sustainability into the overall business strategy of the organization to build a sustainable business model.
Level Basic Understanding:
- Contributes to timely and accurate data collection and analysis at the corporate and site level.
- Describes the basic concepts and objectives of Sustainability.
- Supports research and general administrative requirements for our sustainability efforts.
- Understands various sustainability practices adopted by the organization.
Risk Management: Knowledge of processes, tools and techniques for assessing and controlling an organization's exposure to risks of various kinds; ability to apply knowledge of risk management appropriately to diverse situations.
Level Working Knowledge:
- Produces and interprets common risk assessment and management reports.
- Identifies common technology, security, or financial risks relevant to EHS.
- Implements or manages risk management for own area.
- Documents the key steps of a unit-specific risk management process and associated procedures.
- Evaluates risk assessment models and techniques relevant to a EHS.
Collaborating: Knowledge of collaborative techniques; ability to work with a variety of individuals and groups in a constructive and collaborative manner.
Level Working Knowledge:
- Demonstrates experience participating in productive collaborative processes.
- Assists in communicating shared goals with diverse groups and parties.
- Helps promote collaboration across generations, functions, regions, and levels.
- Helps solve business problems and meet business goals through collaborative processes.
Decision Making and Critical Thinking: Knowledge of the decision-making process and associated tools and techniques; ability to accurately analyze situations and reach productive decisions based on informed judgment.
Level Extensive Experience:
- Differentiates assumptions, perspectives, and historical frameworks.
- Evaluates past decisions for insights to improve decision-making process.
- Assesses and validates decision options and points and predicts their potential impact.
- Advises others in analyzing and synthesizing relevant data and assessing alternatives.
- Uses effective decision-making approaches such as consultative, command, or consensus.
- Ensures that assumptions and received wisdom are objectively analyzed in decisions.
Interpersonal Relationships: Knowledge of the techniques and the ability to work with a variety of individuals and groups in a constructive and collaborative manner.
Level Working Knowledge:
- Explains impact of interactions with individuals and groups.
- Identifies roles and responsibilities for self and others.
- Demonstrates an understanding of alternative points of view.
- Collaborates with departmental associates and management.
- Adapts interaction style to situations and people.
Overcoming Resistance to Change: Understanding and insight into the futility of refusing to accept the inevitable and ability to overcome resistance and adapt to a complex and changing environment.
Level Working Knowledge:
- Chooses own thoughts and attitudes about change.
- Works to overcome resistance to anticipated changes.
- Demonstrates receptivity to changes.
- Acts as if has already overcome internal resistance, and eventually does.
- Approaches accepting change as a process.
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.
Level Working Knowledge:
- Identifies and documents specific problems and resolution alternatives.
- Examines a specific problem and understands the perspective of each involved stakeholder.
- Develops alternative techniques for assessing accuracy and relevance of information.
- Helps to analyze risks and benefits of alternative approaches and obtain decision on resolution.
- Uses fact-finding techniques and diagnostic tools to identify problems.
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.
Level Extensive Experience:
- Determines criteria for assessing vendors which may have potential environmental impact.
- Formulates health and safety plans and policies, e.g. electrical safety plan, contractor safety, PPE, etc.
- Trains employees on EHS policy compliance and measures understanding.
- Collaborates across multiple departments/divisions to facilitate EHS management..
Basic Qualifications
Bachelor’s Degree in Environmental Health & Safety or related field (10 years of experience in lieu of a degree would be accepted)
3-5 years of job-related work experience
Top Candidates will also have
Advanced Degree
Experience with Human & Organizational Performance principles
Additional Information
The location for this position is Mossville, IL
Domestic relocation assistance is available for this position.
This position will require less than 10% travel.
Employee benefit details
Our goal at Caterpillar is for you to have a rewarding career. Our teams are critical to the success of our customers who build a better world.
Here you earn more than just a salary because we value your performance. We offer a total rewards package that provides benefits on day one (medical, dental, vision, RX, and 401K) along with the potential of an annual bonus.
Additional benefits include paid vacation days and paid holidays (prorated based upon hire date).
Final details
Please frequently check the email associated with your application, including the junk/spam folder, as this is the primary correspondence method. If you wish to know the status of your application – please use the candidate log-in on our career website as it will reflect any updates to your status.
This employer is not currently hiring foreign national applicants that require or will require sponsorship tied to a specific employer, such as H, L, TN, F, J, E, O. As a global company, Caterpillar offers many job opportunities outside of the U.S. which can be found through our employment website at www.Caterpillar.com/Careers .
For more information, visit caterpillar.com. To connect with us on social media, visit caterpillar.com/social-media
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Posting Dates:
March 8, 2024 - March 22, 2024Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen.
EEO/AA Employer. All qualified individuals - Including minorities, females, veterans and individuals with disabilities - are encouraged to apply.
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