Senior Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) Manager

Caterpillar Inc.•Mossville, IL

8d•Onsite

About The Position

Caterpillar’s Electrification & Energy Solutions Division has an open opportunity as a Senior Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) Manager. The Senior Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) Manager will lead and leverage a team to execute the Enterprise strategic roadmap for these functions including safety culture, environmental compliance, auditing, education, and change management to deliver on divisional objectives for conformance to corporate procedures, continuous improvement, and achieving strategic initiatives. Your contributions will help further accelerate the development and delivery of services and solutions to help our customers achieve their climate-related goals by using human and organizational principles to drive ownership of safety, health, and environmental impacts, with a focus on engagement, learning from events, and problem solving.

Requirements

Communicating for Impact: Knowledge of the concepts, tools and techniques for effective listening and communicating; ability to apply these theories to receive, transmit and accurately interpret information and ideas to influence others in various situations.
Level Extensive Experience: • Clarifies technical terminology to audiences; translates it in an easy to understand manner. • Advises others on tailoring the message to adapt to others' cultures and perspective, especially when communicating with globally diverse audiences. • Reconciles disparate information across the organization to create a holistic message. • Interprets business plans or solutions to top management to gain both collective intelligence and support. • Coaches others on improving their own communication methods and techniques. • Stays informed on proven best practices for effective listening and communication skills.
Managing Change: Knowledge of the necessity to adapt self and team to evolving business needs; ability to develop and implement new ideas and initiatives that improve the organization's performance in light of new requirements.
Level Working Knowledge: • Encourages exploration of non-traditional ideas by team members. • Employs sound methods of planning, introducing, and following through on change. • Reinforces outcomes of change programs to increase the likelihood that they will take hold. • Articulates the rationale for, and positive and negative consequences of change so as to help others adapt. • Carries out difficult interpersonal responsibilities professionally and effectively.
Strategic Thinking: Knowledge of the importance of "big picture" thinking and planning; ability to apply organizational acumen and competitiveness to identify and maintain focus on key success factors for the organization.
Level Extensive Experience: • Directs strategic alliances and partnerships for mutual benefit. • Makes sound business decisions on behalf of the group when faced with complex and contradictory alternatives. • Builds the strategic thinking capability of the group. • Interprets available data and analyses when creating business plans. • Recommends ways to position the organization for long-term competitiveness. • Prepares the group's response to key marketplace trends, opportunities, and vulnerabilities.
Leadership: Knowledge of leadership practices and processes; ability to use strategies and skills to enlist others in setting, embracing and achieving objectives while having a long-term perspective of the future state of things and how to get there.
Level Working Knowledge: • Utilizes an appropriate style of leadership: autocratic, democratic, laissez-faire/free rein, etc. • Utilizes positive reinforcement to motivate & attain desired behaviors; increases productivity. • Demonstrates leadership qualities: intelligence, dominance, persistence, integrity, confidence. • Employs leadership theories, such as contingency and transactional, and associated techniques. • Manages own behaviors during interactions, such as feedback giving, to shape workplace events.
Matrix Management: Understanding of the importance of being able to leverage external resources when required and ability to build and use effective working relationships within own department and across department, functional, and geographic reporting lines.
Level Extensive Experience: • Analyzes issues and determines who needs to be consulted or updated. • Helps others in understanding their roles and responsibilities within a matrix. • Builds networks and effective working relationships in relevant organizational areas. • Works to achieve consensus across organizational and functional lines. • Describes viewpoints of several functional groups. • Obtains timely decisions from multiple parties in an efficient manner.
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 Expert: • Leads discussions and answers complex questions regarding historical and future EHS legal dilemmas. • Counsels senior practitioners on the implications of EHS policy in related industries. • Plays a leading role in promoting HSE policy compliance best practices across the industry. • Imbeds EHS policy objectives into the organization's strategy and mission. • Promotes a culture in which all employees share a commitment to EHS policy compliance. • Advises HSE authorities and policymakers on ways to prevent violations of EHS related policies or guidelines.

Nice To Haves

Requires a technical degree (advanced degree and/or job-related certifications desired).
Strong understanding of EHS regulations (experience working with regulatory agencies (US/EU desired).
Excellent human relations and communication skills, with ability to socialize ideas, analyze data, make recommendations, and gather team consensus to move forward with excellent communication from plant floor to executive management.
10+ years of EHS experience (demonstrated success at functional leadership desired).

Responsibilities

Serves as division EHS process owner to develop and continuously improve EHS processes, tools and training.
Engages division leadership to lead change and take appropriate actions to address environmental risks and protect employees from hazards in the workplace.
Creates the vision for change.
Develops and facilitates collaborative relationships within the division and across functional groups to ensure strategic goals are achieved.
Manages, guides and supports the development, implementation, and measurement of strategies that support Caterpillar’s Sustainable Development initiatives at the division level.