Career Area:
Engineering
Job Description:
Your Work Shapes the World
Whether it be groundbreaking products, best in class solutions or creating a lifelong career, you can do the work that matters at Caterpillar. With a 95-year legacy of quality and innovation and 150 locations in countries around the world, your impact spans the globe.
When you join Caterpillar, you are joining a team of makers, innovators, and doers. We are the people who roll up our sleeves and do the work to build a better world. We don't just talk about progress and innovation. We make it happen. And we are proud of that, because it helps our customers build and power the world we live in - the roads, hospitals, homes, and infrastructure. Without a dedicated workforce Caterpillar could not effectively meet our customer's needs. Join us.
Description
This position provides enterprise leadership for the High Value Technical Information Protection program that is outlined by enterprise procedure. The Chief Technology Officer owns the enterprise procedure and delegates the task of leading enterprise compliance to this role. This involves working with each of Caterpillar's Division's Technical Information Protection Champions / Chief Engineers and their delegates to ensure that high value technical information assets are being managed and protected as prescribed. This position reports to the Enterprise Risk Advisor for technical information within the Ethics & Compliance Program, and as such, will also advise on technical information risk beyond enterprise procedure.
Job Duties / Responsibilities include, but are not limited to;
Leading the Technical Information Protection Champion Program with the various Caterpillar business units to ensure compliance with enterprise procedure.
Providing leadership for multi-disciplined teams of business partners to execute the processes and activities driven by enterprise procedure.
Coordinate technical information protections including segmented storage locations (HVV), Data Loss Prevention (DLP), and others.
Maintain the enterprise inventory of high value technical information assets and lead the HVV exception process throughout the enterprise.
Respond to DLP events and provide enterprise leadership for others that review DLP events.
Maintain a focus on Continuous Process Improvement with projects related to HVV enhancement, improved tools and processes, engineering onboarding/offboarding, and integration into other development processes.
Conduct training and communication with Divisions, both as requested and as part of required learning, quarterly dashboards, etc.
Lead the annual Ethics & Compliance Enterprise Technical Information Risk Evaluation process
Support Divisions as a Technical Information Risk Advisor. This includes the opportunity to learn principles of Intellectual Property and Intellectual Capital Management.
Basic Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Engineering or Technology
10+ years of relevant experience working within product development and/or IP management/protection roles
Working knowledge of product development systems and tools.
Strong skills in:
Leadership
Integrity and Trust
Execution
Building Inclusive Relationships
Broad network of internal engineering contacts
Demonstrated competence of influencing people and building collaborative relationships
Top Candidates will also have
Black Belt experience
Experience interacting with technical managers and chief engineers
Experience working with joint ventures, suppliers, and research partners
Experience in negotiations and contracts
Experience in information security and/or information technology
Additional Information
The location for this position is IL
Domestic relocation assistance is available for this position.
This position may require up to 10% travel.
Employee benefit details
Our goal at Caterpillar is for you to have a rewarding career. Our teams are critical to the success of our customers who build a better world.
Here you earn more than just a salary because we value your performance. We offer a total rewards package that provides benefits on day one (medical, dental, vision, RX, and 401K) along with the potential of an annual bonus.
Additional benefits include paid vacation days and paid holidays (prorated based upon hire date).
Final details
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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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