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Senior Manager, Environmental Health and Safety

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$147,760 – $221,640 a year
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East Peoria, Illinois
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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.

Senior Manager, Environmental Health and Safety

Location: East Peoria, Illinois, Building SS

Travel: Up to 10% Relocation Assistance: Available Visa Sponsorship: Not Available

Job Summary

The Senior Environmental Health and Safety Manager provides strategic and operational leadership for health and safety programs at Caterpillar's iconic Track Type Tractor manufacturing facility in East Peoria, Illinois, home to legendary machines including the Cat D9, D10, and D11. With manufacturing roots dating back to 1910, East Peoria is one of Caterpillar's most historic manufacturing locations and remains central to the company's legacy of building equipment that shapes the world.

This position also leads environmental programs across the entire East Peoria campus, including drivetrain and undercarriage manufacturing operations. The leader will mentor and guide operations professionals and people leaders while strengthening a culture where workplace safety, environmental responsibility, and regulatory compliance are part of daily operations.

Your Impact

When you join Caterpillar, you join a team of makers, problem solvers, and future world builders working to create stronger, more sustainable communities.

In this position, you will have the opportunity to lead EHS initiatives at one of Caterpillar's most recognizable manufacturing operations, where generations of employees have built the machines that move the world.

You will directly influence employee safety, regulatory compliance, environmental performance, and operational excellence across a large, complex manufacturing campus. You will develop EHS talent, partner with senior manufacturing leadership, and drive meaningful improvements in the systems and processes that protect our people and environment.

Key Responsibilities

  • Provide leadership, mentoring, and direction to hourly employees, salaried professionals, management personnel, and EHS professionals engaged in environmental, health, and safety activities.
  • Identify workplace safety, occupational health, and environmental hazards associated with manufacturing operations and establish practical controls and corrective actions to mitigate risk.
  • Lead EHS compliance programs, audits, and required training in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local regulations, company standards, and business objectives.
  • Monitor EHS performance, including leading and lagging indicators, incident data, audit findings, and performance reports, to identify trends, emerging risks, and improvement opportunities.
  • Communicate material risks and performance trends to facility leadership and recommend actions that improve safety, compliance, and operational performance.
  • Lead incident reporting, investigation, root-cause analysis, corrective-action processes, and cross-functional problem-solving involving operations, engineering, maintenance, human resources, medical, security, and other business partners.
  • Develop and continuously improve risk-management processes, assessment tools, audit mechanisms, and performance benchmarks.
  • Support environmental stewardship through pollution prevention and responsible use of materials, energy, and water.
  • Influence organizational change, build effective relationships with regulatory agencies and internal and external partners, and coach leaders and EHS professionals in risk assessment, compliance responsibilities, and adoption of new safety processes, technologies, and behaviors.

Required Skills

  • Environmental, health and safety leadership: Demonstrated ability to lead EHS programs within a manufacturing, industrial, engineering or similarly complex operating environment.
  • EHS policy and regulatory compliance: Extensive knowledge of environmental, occupational health and workplace safety requirements, including the ability to translate requirements into effective site programs and procedures.
  • Risk management: Experience assessing operational risk, establishing controls, creating audit mechanisms and using risk data to make business decisions.
  • Problem solving: Ability to lead the resolution of high-impact, complex and cross-functional safety, health or environmental issues.
  • Decision-making and critical thinking: Ability to analyze alternatives, anticipate crisis-related considerations and make informed decisions involving multiple stakeholders.
  • Collaboration and influence: Demonstrated success establishing shared goals and building cooperation across functions, organizational levels and professional disciplines.
  • Change leadership: Experience overcoming resistance and helping employees and leaders adopt new processes, behaviors and operating expectations.
  • Communication: Ability to communicate technical and regulatory information clearly to frontline employees, technical professionals and senior leaders.
  • People leadership: Experience coaching, mentoring or leading environmental, health and safety professionals or operational leaders.

Preferred Skills

  • Environmental, health, and safety leadership experience in heavy manufacturing, industrial equipment, automotive, aerospace, energy, metals, foundry, machining, assembly, or similar industrial operations.
  • Extensive knowledge of OSHA, EPA, and applicable Illinois environmental and workplace-safety requirements, including experience supporting regulatory inspections and communicating with government agencies.
  • Experience managing occupational health and safety programs such as machine guarding, ergonomics, industrial hygiene, electrical safety, hazardous energy control, contractor safety, emergency response, and injury prevention.
  • Experience managing environmental compliance programs involving air, water, waste, spill prevention, hazardous materials, and ISO 14001 and/or ISO 45001 management systems.
  • Bachelor’s degree in occupational safety, environmental science, engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant experience.

Summary Pay Range:

$147,760.00 - $221,640.00

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

Posting Dates:

November 9, 2026 - November 15, 2026

Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen.

Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer, Including Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities. Qualified applicants of any age are encouraged to apply.

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