Career Area:
Engineering
Job Description:
JOB PURPOSE :
To successfully lead a team to solve a technical problem or create a particular item or portion of a process within budget, while meeting the requirements of the internal or external customer.
JOB DUTIES:
* The team leader role accounts for up to 50% of this assignment the remainder of the time, the incumbent acts as an individual contributor, bringing technical expertise to the project as well
* Team leaders must manage their own development, continuously learning through experience new business knowledge and skill. Program/project management and strong organizational skills are critical
* Significant challenges of this position are working with people; enhancing the team's creativity; facilitating the team's cooperation; clearly communicating the requirements and tasks, while gaining input from the team on refinement of same; translating both verbal and non-verbal information from the customer, management, and team members. Team leader acts as spokesperson for the team in meetings with management and with the customer
* Team leader must develop good networks to enable them to obtain resources and cooperation needed, and remove roadblocks so that they can insure the success of their team
* Team leaders must have strong communication skills and interpersonal skills; as well as, ever increasing skills in the role-based competencies of Managing Vision & Purpose, Decision Quality, and Negotiating
* The incumbent would set strategy at the project level
* The project would solve problems for a single technology, component, product, or sub-process
* Project scope will vary up to a moderate technical focus on a component, product, or sub-process and will require incumbent to broaden business understanding
* Although jobs/projects will have a relatively narrow focus, understanding and defining their benefits to the customer is crucial
* 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, the ability to draw upon knowledge of more than one engineering function, technology, component, system, product, or process
* Ever increasing skill in technical project management, development of product, internal and external requirements management, and cost-value management are also required
* Team leaders must manage their own development, continuously learning through experience an understanding of the customers' needs and application of the product or process, as well as keeping up with technology. Experience in more than one engineering area is desirable
* Team leaders are accountable for pulling together a team of individuals, who may or may not have worked together before, to solve a technical problem or create a particular item or portion of a process
* Team leaders may or may not select the team and the job/project deadline. Incumbent will be expected to pull input from the whole team to develop the output for the job
* Key areas of responsibility encountered in the role of team leader are: plan and manage the job/project; manage the business/financial aspects of the job or project; provide a supportive work environment for the team; mentor, coach, and develop others; and manage one's own development
* The team leader will interact with people from diverse technical and cultural backgrounds
* Incumbent will work within the team and beyond the team with contractors, hourly, salaried, and management employees, suppliers, customers, and individuals working in many Caterpillar organizations
* Decisions may affect the job/project team, the division or business unit, suppliers, both internal and external customers, and the market. Decisions may impact a product, process or factory, warranty, sales, and customers' perceptions. Expectations demand that jobs/projects be completed on time, independent of the hours required
* Acknowledging trade-offs between time, resources and quality, and raising the customers' and management's awareness of those trade-offs, is essential.
BACKGROUND/EXPERIENCE:
* A engineering degree from an accredited university or a closely related technical degree with 5+ 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 7+ 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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