EHS Specialist

**Career Area**:
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.

Role Definition

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.

**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 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.

Level Working Knowledge:

- 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.

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.
- 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.

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.

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