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.
This position will lead tactical and NPI projects to support development of packaged advanced power systems to include fuel cells, energy storage, and site integration. Responsibilities will include execution of projects through the NPI process and program execution to achieve cost, time, and quality goals.
The incumbent will also directly engage market facing teams, product definition managers, manufacturing, product support, engineering, and purchasing to execute a projects. Strong communication and organizational skills are necessary along with a strategic view due to the emerging project technology within the scope of this role.
Job Duties/Responsibilities may include, but are not limited to:

• 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. Interpersonal, leadership, and strong communication skills are required.
• 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 nonverbal information from the customer, management, and team members.
• The Project Team Leaders is the spokesperson for the team in meetings with multiple levels of 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 Leader may be called upon to give input to performance reviews for team members.
• The Project Team Leader must be at the Fully Skilled level 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 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.
• Projects will have a moderately broad technical scope. Understanding and defining benefits of project or program to the customer is crucial.
• 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.
• Ever increasing skill in technical project management, development of product, internal and external requirements management, and cost-value management is also required.

Basic Qualifications:

• Generally requires an accredited engineering degree or a closely related technical degree plus 13-15 years of engineering experience.
• In lieu of an accredited Engineering or Technical degree, this level of a position will generally require at least 15 years of progressively responsible, directly related experience.
• Previous team leadership experience is necessary.

Top Candidates will also have:

• Experience in more than one engineering function is desirable and experience in more than one business or service unit would be helpful.

Additional Information:

• Location of this position is in Mossville, IL.
• Relocation assistance is available for this position.
• This position may require less than 10% travel.
• This position will close on Thursday, October 14th, 2021 at 11:59 PM.

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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