EHS Associate

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.

We are seeking a highly motivated and technically competent EHS person to join our team and drive excellence in Environment, Health, and Safety across our manufacturing facility. The ideal candidate will play a key role in strengthening the organization's safety culture, ensuring statutory compliance, driving sustainability initiatives, and leveraging digital technologies to enhance EHS performance.

The candidate must have completed an M.E. in Industrial Safety Engineering, is DISH-approved, and possesses 4 to 7 years of experience in Environment, Health, and Safety (EHS).

 

Key Responsibilities:

·       Drive and foster a strong EHS culture across the facility through employee engagement, awareness programs, safety campaigns, and continuous improvement initiatives.

·       Develop and implement desktop applications, dashboards, and digital tools to support EHS management systems, reporting, analytics, and performance monitoring.

·       Monitor and ensure compliance with applicable EHS laws, regulations, statutory requirements, acts, and rules.

·       Lead the implementation of EHS requirements during new projects, process modifications, and machine installations.

·       Drive Contractor Safety Management programs, including contractor qualification, onboarding, risk assessment, monitoring, and compliance verification.

·       Support the implementation, maintenance, and continual improvement of ISO 14001:2015 Environmental Management System requirements.

·       Contribute to sustainability initiatives and ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) programs, including performance tracking and reporting.

·       Ensure compliance with Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) requirements and support related regulatory initiatives.

·       Promote digitalization in EHS through innovative technologies, automation, data analytics, AI-based solutions, and smart safety applications.

·       Conduct risk assessments, incident investigations, audits, inspections, and corrective action tracking to enhance workplace safety and environmental performance.

·       Prepare and maintain EHS reports, metrics, and management review presentations.

 

Skill Descriptors:

Process Management: Knowledge of business process improvement tools and techniques; ability to understand, monitor, update, control, or enhance existing business or work processes.

Level Working Knowledge:

•            Employs process flows, cycle time, process time and waste concepts as appropriate.

•            Walks through steps, decisions, measurements, dependencies and hand-offs for a specific process.

•            Creates process flow or work flow diagrams.

•            Documents types of process decisions and potential impact of each decision.

•            Identifies and monitors common process bottlenecks.

 

Accuracy and Attention to Detail: Understanding the necessity and value of accuracy; ability to complete tasks with high levels of precision.

Level Extensive Experience:

•            Evaluates and makes contributions to best practices.

•            Processes large quantities of detailed information with high levels of accuracy.

•            Productively balances speed and accuracy.

•            Employs techniques for motivating personnel to meet or exceed accuracy goals.

•            Implements a variety of cross-checking approaches and mechanisms.

•            Demonstrates expertise in quality assurance tools, techniques, and standards.

 

Effective Communications: Understanding of effective communication concepts, tools and techniques; ability to effectively transmit, receive, and accurately interpret ideas, information, and needs through the application of appropriate communication behaviors.

Level Working Knowledge:

•            Delivers helpful feedback that focuses on behaviors without offending the recipient.

•            Listens to feedback without defensiveness and uses it for own communication effectiveness.

•            Makes oral presentations and writes reports needed for own work.

•            Avoids technical jargon when inappropriate.

•            Looks for and considers non-verbal cues from individuals and groups.

 

Influencing: Knowledge of effective influencing tactics and strategies; ability to impact decisions within and outside own organization.

Level Working Knowledge:

•            Develops basic persuasive arguments.

•            Discusses organizational culture around providing input on decisions.

•            Uses active listening skills and probing techniques to surface opportunities to influence.

•            Identifies who the decision makers are and how they receive information.

•            Regularly presents ideas or suggestions to associates in persuasive terms.

 

Initiative: Being proactive and committing to action on self-identified job responsibilities and challenges; ability to seek out work and the drive to accomplish goals.

Level Working Knowledge:

•            Identifies and exploits own strengths; minimizes limitations.

•            Provides appropriate degrees of attention to both personal and professional priorities.

•            Explains how own motivation relates to the workplace.

•            Utilizes available tools or approaches for increasing knowledge of self-motivation.

•            Learns and uses resources the organization has to assess and enhance team motivation.

 

Managing Multiple Priorities: Knowledge of effective self-management practices; ability to manage multiple concurrent objectives, projects, groups, or activities, making effective judgments as to prioritizing and time allocation.

Level Working Knowledge:

•            Recognizes changing demands and priorities; validates changes with management.

•            Obtains information about how current assignments contribute to organizational goals.

•            Completes current work according to assigned priorities.

•            Responds to day-to-day operational priorities while still making progress on project work.

•            Performs at least 2-3 concurrent activities without reducing productivity.

 

Problem Solving: Knowledge of approaches, tools, techniques for recognizing, anticipating, and resolving organizational, operational or process problems; ability to apply knowledge of problem solving appropriately to diverse situations.

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-finding techniques and diagnostic tools to identify problems.

 

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 Working Knowledge:

•            Uses safety or personal protective equipment, e.g. safety boots and protective eyewear.

•            Prepares for emergency situations according to EHS policy.

•            Replaces hazardous materials with environmentally friendly ones where appropriate.

•            Conducts risk assessments to identify hazards in the business, work areas and work processes.

•            Completes incident report forms after detecting risks or hazards in the workplace.

 

Additional information: This job requires 5 working days from office.

 

This Job Description is intended as a general guide to the job duties for this position and is intended for the purpose of establishing the specific salary grade.  It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as an exhaustive summary of all responsibilities, duties and effort required of employees assigned to this job.  At the discretion of management, this description may be changed at any time to address the evolving needs of the organization.  It is expressly not intended to be a comprehensive list of “essential job functions” as that term is defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act.

 

Posting Dates:

October 5, 2026 - October 19, 2026

Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer.  Qualified applicants of any age are encouraged to apply

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