Senior Consultant - Safety Culture & Leadership Development

Career Area:

Product Support

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.

Caterpillar Safety Services partners with teams across Caterpillar, Cat® dealers and customers worldwide to strengthen safety performance and build long-term safety resilience. We are seeking a dynamic, curious, inclusive, and collaborative facilitator to join our global consulting team as a Senior Consultant - Safety Culture & Leadership Development .

In this role, you will help organizations across diverse industries transform their safety culture by strengthening the foundational elements of resilient safety performance - Mindset, System, Leadership, and Ownership. Our proven methodologies, tools and processes have driven meaningful, measurable results within Caterpillar and with customers around the world, and you will play a critical role in extending that impact.

What You Will Do

As a Senior Consultant, you will lead strategic consulting engagements to help organizations embed safety into every aspect of their business. Key responsibilities include:

Solution Delivery & Consultative Sales

• Lead the consulting relationship once a customer contract is established, including full ownership of delivery.

• Collaborate closely with the Consulting Project Coordinator and Industry Account Manager(s) to ensure efficient planning, scheduling, resource alignment, and ongoing customer satisfaction.

• Utilize standard Caterpillar Safety Services materials and processes to fulfill all contract deliverables with excellence and protect Caterpillar intellectual property.

• Win repeat business, expansion, and referrals through strong customer relationships and high-quality delivery.

Strategic Partnership & Visioning

• Co-create, with an Industry Account Manager, a long-term strategic roadmap with each customer.

• Build trusted relationships with customer senior leaders and key influencers to drive engagement, secure support, and guide long-term cultural change.

Leadership Coaching & Culture Transformation

• Coach leaders at all levels to demonstrate visible safety commitment and foster accountability.

• Advise on the development of accountability systems and processes that integrate safety into daily work.

• Guide cross-functional steering teams to build data-driven, tactical improvement plans.

• Guide frontline employee continuous improvement teams to design and implement leading-indicator processes that identify hazards, mitigate risk and drive accountability for safety ownership.

Internal Collaboration & Continuous Improvement

• Role-model Caterpillar Values and the principles of Caterpillar Safety Services, providing constructive feedback and positive reinforcement to teammates and customer partners.

• Partner with cross-functional team members across consulting, account management, and product support to refine processes, enhance materials, and evolve Caterpillar's culture and leadership solutions.

Travel & Work Style

Extensive travel required (up to 75% of working time). This position requires a high degree of initiative and accountability to achieve performance targets while working independently. Non-travel office time will be utilized to complete tasks and projects which support customer-facing work, generate repeat and new business and contribute to Caterpillar team development.

What skills you will have:

Consulting: Experience in safety management and developing safety management strategies . Serious Injury and Fatality (SIF) prevention experience . Proven ability to lead teams through process and performance improvement. Experience with continuous improvement, Lean practices, and change management .

Collaborating: Exceptional training/facilitation skills - dynamic engagement style that fosters open conversation, problem-solving and learning by diverse teams.

Customer Focus: Knowledge of the values and practices that align customer needs and satisfaction as primary considerations in all business decisions and ability to leverage that information in delivering solutions.

Service Excellence: Knowledge of customer service concepts and techniques; ability to meet or exceed customer needs and expectations and provide excellent service in a direct or indirect manner. Strong business management acumen.

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.

Effective Communications: Exceptional human relations and interpersonal communication skills. Polished and professional presentation style demonstrating the ability to command an audience with confidence and credibility.

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.

Relationship Management: Knowledge of relationship management techniques; ability to establish and maintain healthy working relationships with leaders, peers, and customers.

Top Candidates will also have:

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Environmental Health and Safety Management, Business Management, or Human Resources.

Experience applying Human and Organizational Performance (HOP) principles.

Technical writing skills and experience, particularly in survey data interpretation.

Operations experience in an oversight position with a track record of safety improvement.

Certifications in safety management.

Additional Information:

The primary work location for this role is Tucson, AZ, Irving, TX Peoria, IL, Portland, OR with a requirement to work on-site full-time at a Caterpillar facility.

This position may require 75% travel.

Domestic relocation assistance is available.

Visa sponsorship, international assignments, or payroll transfers are not available for this role.

Summary Pay Range:

$128,470.00 - $192,710.00

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.

Relocation is available for this position.

Visa Sponsorship is not available for this position.

Posting Dates:

June 4, 2026 - June 21, 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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