Senior Manager, Environmental Health and Safety

Caterpillar•East Peoria, IL

1d•Onsite

About The Position

The Senior Environmental Health and Safety Manager provides strategic and operational leadership for health and safety programs at Caterpillar's Track Type Tractor manufacturing facility in East Peoria, Illinois. The role also leads environmental programs across the East Peoria campus, including drivetrain and undercarriage manufacturing operations. The leader mentors operations professionals and people leaders while strengthening a culture of workplace safety, environmental responsibility, and regulatory compliance. The position leads EHS initiatives across a large, complex manufacturing campus and influences employee safety, regulatory compliance, environmental performance, and operational excellence. It develops EHS talent, partners with senior manufacturing leadership, and improves systems and processes that protect people and the environment.

Requirements

Demonstrated ability to lead EHS programs within a manufacturing, industrial, engineering, or similarly complex operating environment.
Extensive knowledge of environmental, occupational health, and workplace safety requirements, with the ability to translate them into effective site programs and procedures.
Experience assessing operational risk, establishing controls, creating audit mechanisms, and using risk data to make business decisions.
Ability to lead the resolution of high-impact, complex, cross-functional safety, health, or environmental issues.
Ability to analyze alternatives, anticipate crisis-related considerations, and make informed decisions involving multiple stakeholders.
Demonstrated success establishing shared goals and building cooperation across functions, organizational levels, and professional disciplines.
Experience overcoming resistance and helping employees and leaders adopt new processes, behaviors, and operating expectations.
Ability to communicate technical and regulatory information clearly to frontline employees, technical professionals, and senior leaders.
Experience coaching, mentoring, or leading environmental, health, and safety professionals or operational leaders.

Nice To Haves

EHS leadership experience in heavy manufacturing, industrial equipment, automotive, aerospace, energy, metals, foundry, machining, assembly, or similar industrial operations.
Extensive knowledge of OSHA, EPA, and applicable Illinois environmental and workplace-safety requirements, including experience supporting regulatory inspections and communicating with government agencies.
Experience managing occupational health and safety programs such as machine guarding, ergonomics, industrial hygiene, electrical safety, hazardous energy control, contractor safety, emergency response, and injury prevention.
Experience managing environmental compliance programs involving air, water, waste, spill prevention, hazardous materials, and ISO 14001 and/or ISO 45001 management systems.
Bachelor’s degree in occupational safety, environmental science, engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant experience.

Responsibilities

Provide leadership, mentoring, and direction to hourly employees, salaried professionals, management personnel, and EHS professionals engaged in environmental, health, and safety activities.
Identify workplace safety, occupational health, and environmental hazards associated with manufacturing operations and establish practical controls and corrective actions to mitigate risk.
Lead EHS compliance programs, audits, and required training in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local regulations, company standards, and business objectives.
Monitor EHS performance, including leading and lagging indicators, incident data, audit findings, and performance reports, to identify trends, emerging risks, and improvement opportunities.
Communicate material risks and performance trends to facility leadership and recommend actions that improve safety, compliance, and operational performance.
Lead incident reporting, investigation, root-cause analysis, corrective-action processes, and cross-functional problem-solving with operations, engineering, maintenance, human resources, medical, security, and other business partners.
Develop and continuously improve risk-management processes, assessment tools, audit mechanisms, and performance benchmarks.
Support environmental stewardship through pollution prevention and responsible use of materials, energy, and water.
Influence organizational change, build relationships with regulatory agencies and internal and external partners, and coach leaders and EHS professionals in risk assessment, compliance responsibilities, and adoption of new safety processes, technologies, and behaviors.