Caterpillar, Inc

EHS Senior Associate

Caterpillar, Inc$89K — $133K *
Healthcare
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Degree in Environmental Health and Safety or related field required.
  • 5-7 years of relevant EHS experience preferred.
  • Strong knowledge of EHS policies and compliance requirements.
  • Experience in auditing safety programs and conducting facility audits.
  • Familiarity with industrial hygiene activities and risk assessments.

Responsibilities

  • Foster a proactive EHS culture among business partners.
  • Coach and collaborate with factory teams and support groups.
  • Identify and mitigate safety, health, and environmental hazards.
  • Ensure completion of EHS training to meet compliance standards.
  • Conduct audits of EHS programs for regulatory and company compliance.
  • Assist in maintaining EHS systems and reporting for performance tracking.
  • Support environmental activities including permitting and compliance.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision benefits.
  • Paid time off plan (Vacation, Holidays, Volunteer, etc.).
  • 401(k) savings plans.
  • Health Savings Account (HSA).
  • Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs).
  • Employee Assistance Program.
  • Tuition Reimbursement.
  • Career Development opportunities.
Full Job Description

Career Area:

Environmental Health and Safety

Job Description:

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.

What you will do:

  • Enable our business partners to build a strong and proactive EHS Culture, aligned around Safety Driven (care, learn and prevent serious injuries).

  • Regularly collaborate and proactively coach teams in the factory (operations) as well as various support groups within the organization.

  • Identifies common safety/health/environmental hazards inherent in the organization's operations and establishes guidelines for protection from, elimination of or proper management of 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 and with company standards, government regulations, customer requirements and adequacy relative to local conditions.

  • Conduct facility audits to identify unsafe conditions and recommend collaborative corrective actions with employees.

  • Partner in incident learning teams, contributing factors, and corrective action development.

  • Maintain EHS systems in alignment with division and enterprise, including incident reporting systems and support leading and lagging indicator tracking.

  • Support Management of Change (MOC) processes and pretask planning reviews.

  • Assist with industrial hygiene activities such as air monitoring, noise surveys, exposure assessments and mitigation plans.

  • Develop and enhance Risk Assessments for standard work tasks.

  • Maintain accurate EHS records including training logs, inspection findings, and regulatory documentation.

  • Prepare reports for internal leadership and regulatory agencies as required.

  • Champion and conduct site level environmental activities and permitting, e.g. (air, water, waste) in collaboration with business environmental manager

What you will have:

Degree Requirement
Degree in EHS or related field required.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Partial relocation is available for this role

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 5essential job functions6 as that term is defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act.

 

Summary Pay Range:

$89,210.00 - $133,810.00

Compensation and benefits offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, job level, market location,job-related knowledge, skills, individual performance and experience. Please note that salary is only one component of total compensation at Caterpillar.

Benefits:

Subject to plan eligibility, terms, and guidelines. This is a summary list of benefits.

  • Medical, dental, and vision benefits*

  • Paid time off plan (Vacation, Holidays, Volunteer, etc.)*

  • 401(k) savings plans*

  • Health Savings Account (HSA)*

  • Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)*

  • Health Lifestyle Programs*

  • Employee Assistance Program*

  • Voluntary Benefits and Employee Discounts*

  • Career Development*

  • Incentive bonus*

  • Disability benefits

  • Life Insurance

  • Parental leave

  • Adoption benefits

  • Tuition Reimbursement

       

* These benefits also apply to part-time employees

 

 

This position requires working onsite five days a week.

 

 

 

Visa Sponsorship is not available for this position.

 

 

Posting Dates:

July 6, 2026 - July 19, 2026

About Caterpillar, Inc

Progress Rail Services Corporation, a Caterpillar company, is one of the largest integrated and diversified suppliers of railroad and transit system products and services worldwide. Since its acquisition by Caterpillar Inc. in 2006, Progress Rail has used the Caterpillar international footprint to gain quick and widespread notice and approval across the globe. Product technology, reliability and durability, along with legendary aftermarket parts and service support, have been their keys to success. Caterpillar is the world's leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, diesel and natural gas engines and industrial gas turbines. The technology and world reach of Caterpillar, combined with the service standard and historical reliability of Progress Rail, ensures their products and services make a growing impact on the world rail industry. With their acquisition of Electro-Motive Diesel (EMD), Progress Rail is the world's largest builder of diesel-electric locomotives for all commercial railroad applications including freight, intercity passenger, commuter, switching, industrial and mining. EMD is also a global provider of diesel power engines for marine propulsion, offshore and land based oil well drilling rigs and stationary power generation. Electro-Motive is the only diesel engine manufacturer of its size to have produced more than 70,000 engines. This success stems from product reliability, serviceability, load acceptance capability, low operating costs and ease of maintenance with standardized components.

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Learn more about Caterpillar, Inc
Size
107,700 employees
Market Cap
$125.3 billion
Industry
Net Income
$2.9 billion
Founded
1925
5 Year Trend
+5.8%
Revenue
$41.7 billion
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