Senior Manager EHS & Facilities Engineering

Career Area: Environmental Health and Safety Job Description: 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 provide leadership, mentoring and direction to hourly, salaried and management personnel engaged in Environmental, Health, and/or Safety (EHS) activities and Facilities Engineering, Maintenance related activities to a large facility.

Responsibilities • Identifies common and more complex 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. - Directing staffing, development and performance management programs for all facilities management staff; managing, motivating and developing management team.

•Maintaining communications and relationships with customers, local community, service providers, and utilities.

•Developing plans and strategies for infrastructure and processes needed to run a manufacturing facility in accordance with regulatory procedures and environmental standards.

•Planning the implementation and use of programs and databases for effectively managing properties, physical assets and equipment.

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 Extensive Experience: • Debates the pros and cons of various risk management models.

•Implements function-wide risk management processes and tools.

•Designs cross-functional risk management processes, tools, and audit mechanisms.

•Measures key benefits and drawbacks for specific risk management practices.

•Relates risk assessment models and analysis tools and processes to own business.

•Establishes key business-specific risk management benchmarks.

Collaborating: Knowledge of collaborative techniques; ability to work with a variety of individuals and groups in a constructive and collaborative manner.

Level Extensive Experience: • Demonstrates experience engendering collaborative processes that lead to problem solving and the achievement of business goals.

•Establishes shared goals to foster collaboration.

•Ensures that everyone can access the same data and provide input into how business is conducted.

•Redesigns physical areas to allow for collaboration and private time.

•Deemphasizes divides; focuses on collaboration across generations, functions, regions, and levels.

•Implements methods for people to come together on the fly to make decisions, solve problems, and develop products/services.

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 Expert: • Analyzes and discusses alternatives with multiple stakeholders.

•Monitors developments in critical-thinking and decision-making models for potential use by organization.

•Coaches others in decision-making models, processes, and practices.

•Anticipates special issues and considerations for effective decision-making during a crisis.

•Shares experiences regarding optimal timing and circumstances for refraining from or making decisions.

•Differentiates between content and context of a decision.

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 Expert: • Coaches others in developing and maintaining cooperative and satisfying relationships.

•Intervenes with highly difficult people and situations.

•Creates initiatives that foster communication, directness and spirit of cooperation.

•Arbitrates difficult situations with high stakes.

•Sets the tone for interacting with other business functions or units.

•Encourages others to build partnerships with other functions or departments.

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 Expert: • Demonstrates experience overcoming resistance to anticipated and unanticipated changes in a wide variety of realms.

Identifies and provides training for new values, skills, and behaviors required for the change.

•Develops strategies for overcoming resistance to change.

•Fosters an attitude of anticipation and graciousness toward change; welcomes change as an opportunity.

•Conceptualizes methods for