Career Area:
Engineering
Job Description:
JOB PURPOSE:
Supervision and technical direction to a staff of hourly, salaried, and management personnel including technical specialist(s) engaged in design, development or research activities related to one or more technology, component, product, or process which accomplish product maintenance and new product introduction objectives.
JOB DUTIES:
* Reporting to this position are various levels of engineers, technologists, and support personnel in one or more geographic location
* The supervision role accounts for up to 100% of this assignment
* The incumbent needs to coach and facilitate the development of the work group to develop collaborative relationships among themselves, with customers, suppliers, other cross functional groups, and internal customers to ensure goals are achieved
* Program/project management skills and organizational skills are critical
* Position requires excellent human relations, interpersonal, and communications skills
* Position also requires highly developed people skills for coaching and leading people
* Ability to draw upon and ever increasing skills in the Caterpillar Leadership competencies - Be Strategic, Focus on the Enterprise, Global Leadership, Lead Change, Hold Self and Others Accountable, Know your Customer, Build Engagement, and Coach for Development
* The incumbent would set strategy at the section level. The section would solve problems for one or more technology, component, product, or process
* Project scope will vary from a moderate technical focus to a broader, multi-systems focus, and will require incumbent to broaden business understanding. Challenges include increased competitive pressure, increasing project complexity and customer demands
* Therefore, the ability to draw upon foundational product development skills such as conceptual design, development of product and/or process, data analysis & extraction, failure resolution & prevention, and requirements management is required; as well as, ever increasing skill in technical project management, development of product, internal and external requirements management, and cost-value management
* The ability to draw upon knowledge of more than one engineering function, technology, component, system, product, or process is required
* This role requires that the incumbent increases understanding of product technology and process and the customers' business and needs
* To make decisions, this position will work with immediate work group or project team, division/business unit, suppliers, internal and external customers, and the market, typically impacting one or more product(s), process(es), or factory(ies)
* Decisions may impact an entire product, process or factory and may affect warranty, sales, customer perception, and could have effect of evolutionary change to technology and its application in products or processes at Caterpillar through technology and core competency
* The incumbent has primary accountability for operating expense budget.
BACKGROUND/EXPERIENCE:
* A engineering degree from an accredited university or a closely related technical degree with 10+ years of experience
* An advanced degree is highly desired. In lieu of an accredited Engineering or Technical degree, this level of a position will generally require at least 15+ years of progressive responsibilities, directly related experience
This employer is not currently hiring foreign national applicants that require or will require sponsorship tied to a specific employer, such as H, L, TN, F, J, E, O. As a global company, Caterpillar offers many job opportunities outside of the U.S. which can be found through our employment website at www.caterpillar.com/careers.
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