Career Area:
Information Technology
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.
Job Purpose:
This role will facilitate program and project workshops, development sessions, meetings, gate reviews and other project meetings independently. This position will understand and adhere to divisional and corporate governance processes (NPI, L-NPI, etc.) The levels in this family are differentiated by experience of the individual, value of programs, complexity of work, and the degree of supervision received by the incumbent.
Description:
This is a staff position that requires an expert in Project Management tools & processes. Included but not limited to:

• Ability to facilitate projects, lead chartering sessions, develop/validate network diagrams, lead integration and compression sessions.
• Understands and executes standard work to ensure the scope of services achieve and maintain appropriate level of risk and compliance to internal policies and procedures, including those relating to sustainability, cybersecurity, SOX, and IT General Controls.
• Specific work assignments may be as follows: Plan and lead program and project planning sessions. The incumbent will function independently in leading a large, diverse program or project planning session.
• Responsibilities also include preparation and pre-work for the session as well as follow up and action ownership.
• Mentor/coach the leadership team and address leadership issues one-on-one with senior divisional and department management.
• Facilitator must have the ability to adapt to diverse business climates.
• Able to control the planning sessions - able to stop any side bar conversations constructively, and they must be able to keep the team focused on the objectives.
• Provide input for staffing and support of programs and create accurate and detailed schedules.
• Facilitator position must be able to successfully handoff off project to Program Managers or Project Coordinators.
• Interpret & communicate Voice of the Customer (VOC), Voice of Business (VOB), and Critical Customer Requirements (CCR) to develop a comprehensive Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) to reduce program risk and enhance project schedule quality.
• Employee may also be responsible for performing other job duties occasionally as assigned.

Travel is required for this position, including travel outside the US to support all business sectors and emerging market programs, which may include India, China, Japan, Brazil and Russia.
Basic Requirements:

• Six to eight years of progressively responsible job-related experience in multiple business units are typically required.
• Interpersonal skills are required in order to deal with sensitive issues, develop others, or influence others inside and outside the department to take specific actions.
• Project management skills, team leadership skills, excellent communication skills, strong analytical and organizational skills.

Top Candidate Will Also Have:

• Broad knowledge of company policies and processes, and company products and customers with direct project management experience.
• College or university degree with a technical focus is highly desirable.
• Professional training in leading and facilitating meetings is highly desired.
• Previous Black Belt experience is a plus.

Additional Details:
Location: East Peoria, Illinois
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 day one benefits [medical, dental, vision, RX, and 401(k)] 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
EEO/AA Employer. All qualified individuals - Including minorities, females, veterans and individuals with disabilities - are encouraged to apply.
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