EHS Senior Specialist

Caterpillar Inc.•Cary, NC

11d•$112,710 - $169,060•Onsite

About The Position

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

Requirements

Experience serving as an individual contributor on Environmental, Health and/or Safety (EHS) projects and assignments that support facility performance and compliance.
Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) Policy Compliance
Determines criteria for assessing vendors which may have potential environmental impact.
Formulates health and safety plans and policies, e.g. a fire safety plan and road safety policy.
Trains employees on EHS policy compliance and measures understanding.
Designs an incident report form and reporting procedures for EHS management.
Collaborates across multiple departments to facilitate EHS management.
Controls pollution and minimizes waste of materials, energy and water within the organization.
Decision Making and Critical Thinking
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
Seeks out what's common in conflicting points of view.
Influences key individuals inside and outside own group and earns their respect.
Resolves potentially harmful differences between individuals and groups of people.
Contributes as a member on a variety of teams.
Establishes and maintains productive working relationships within and outside of own area.
Establishes and maintains credibility with clients and teammates.
Risk Management
Produces and interprets common risk assessment and management reports.
Identifies common technology, security, or financial risks relevant to own function or unit.
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 specific line of business.

Nice To Haves

Sustainability
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.
Collaborating
Demonstrates experience participating in productive collaborative processes.
Under guidance, initiates collaborative meetings.
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.
Overcoming Resistance to Change
Demonstrates experience overcoming resistance to many types of change in a given realm.
Masters new and changing responsibilities.
Explains the ramifications of changes in a positive light.
Sets expectations and assuages fears associated with impact of change.
Delineates stages of change acceptance.
Proposes goals or activities to promote change.
Problem Solving
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.

Responsibilities

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, alerts line management to problems and makes recommendations for improvement.
Determines criteria for assessing vendors which may have potential environmental impact.
Formulates health and safety plans and policies, e.g. a fire safety plan and road safety policy.
Trains employees on EHS policy compliance and measures understanding.
Designs an incident report form and reporting procedures for EHS management.
Collaborates across multiple departments to facilitate EHS management.
Controls pollution and minimizes waste of materials, energy and water within the organization.
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.
Seeks out what's common in conflicting points of view.
Influences key individuals inside and outside own group and earns their respect.
Resolves potentially harmful differences between individuals and groups of people.
Contributes as a member on a variety of teams.
Establishes and maintains productive working relationships within and outside of own area.
Establishes and maintains credibility with clients and teammates.
Produces and interprets common risk assessment and management reports.
Identifies common technology, security, or financial risks relevant to own function or unit.
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 specific line of business.
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.
Demonstrates experience participating in productive collaborative processes.
Under guidance, initiates collaborative meetings.
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.
Demonstrates experience overcoming resistance to many types of change in a given realm.
Masters new and changing responsibilities.
Explains the ramifications of changes in a positive light.
Sets expectations and assuages fears associated with impact of change.
Delineates stages of change acceptance.
Proposes goals or activities to promote change.
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.