Career Area:

Engineering

Job Description:

Your Work Shapes the World at Caterpillar Inc.

When you join Caterpillar, you're joining a global team who cares not just about the work we do – but also about each other.  We are the makers, problem solvers, and future world builders who are creating stronger, more sustainable communities. We don't just talk about progress and innovation here – we make it happen, with our customers, where we work and live. Together, we are building a better world, so we can all enjoy living in it.

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 Summary:

Caterpillar’s Integrated Components and Solutions Division is currently seeking a Mining Technology Product Engineering Manager for the Caterpillar MineStar System.  As the engineering manager, you will be accountable for the leadership of the technical team responsible for the mining technology solutions for automating mining drills, large track-type tractors, and for Terrain for Grading & Loading.  This role is directly responsible for delivering technical outcomes in support of new product development, enhancement, maintenance, support, performance and innovation.   The leader in this role will be expected to establish goals for the team that deliver towards the department goals and product strategy. 

In this position you will have a team of direct reports who function as technical leads of enterprise process for management of change including NPI (New Product Introduction), NTI (New Technology Introduction, CPI (Continuous Product Improvement and NMI (New Market Introductions) bringing all engineering work together to deliver the technical aspect of the program.  The Technical leads bring the engineering development together collaborating with and leveraging engineering teams in partner organizations.  These delivery teams span across multiple different internal and external organizations to deliver technical solutions that fully integrate with other product systems to complete a mine site technology solution.  As engineering manager, you are ultimately responsible for the delivery of all these teams to meet product objectives, schedules, and quality targets.   

This position is also responsible to provide technical support to customers, the MineStar operations teams and product support.  There are frequent and regular interactions with customers and end users.   The engineering manager must be able to build relationships and partnerships with product support, commercial teams, strategy teams, process owners and customers to provide exceptional service.  Serving the product support teams and customers well is what provides best in class value for the MineStar solution.  

The incumbent must have strong technical and analytical skills, good communication and project management skills, a broad technical knowledge base, strong engineering judgement, and demonstrated team leadership skills.  The incumbent must have the ability to interface with mining customers tactfully and with technical competence. 

What You Will Do:

•  Manages and coordinates technical feasibility assessment, planning, design optimization, costs/schedule management, risk assessment/mitigation, project communication and on-going production support.    
• Promotes and fosters strong partnerships with partner organizations internal to Caterpillar and with suppliers external to Caterpillar.
• Researches and monitors industry developments, such as technology, materials and process advance; identifies potential new product opportunities and strategies.
• Provides leadership and performance management to product development engineering staff and monitors product development and production processes and activities.
• Develops department goals for quality, reliability, scheduling and support; monitors projects to help product development team meet goals.
• Leading Product Improvement projects.
• Stimulating team innovation 
• Communicating globally with customers, suppliers, team members, and other business units
• Providing guidance and oversight for product analysis and validation.

Education Requirement:

• Bachelor’s degree in an accredited Engineering curriculum

What Skills You Will Have:

Planning: Tactical, Strategic:
• Develops, refines, and communicates tactical plans for own responsibilities.
• Provides the right level of detail as input for strategic plan development.
• Demonstrates the value and necessity of linking tactical plans to overall strategic plan.
• Ensures attention to the detail and dependencies of existing departmental-level plans.
• Plans for allocation of resources in line with unit goals, technical and business objectives.
• Ensures the planning process is integrated with the overall business plan.

Decision Making and Critical Thinking:
• Differentiates assumptions, perspectives, and historical frameworks.
• Evaluates past decisions for insights to improve decision-making process.
• Assesses and validates decision options and points and predicts their potential impact.
• Advises others in analyzing and synthesizing relevant data and assessing alternatives.
• Uses effective decision-making approaches such as consultative, command, or consensus.
• Ensures that assumptions and received wisdom are objectively analyzed in decisions.

Technical Excellence:
• Advises others on the assessment and provision of all technical solutions.
• Engages appropriate subject matter resources to effectively resolve technical issues.
• Mentors others to enhance their technical competence and its application to achieve more effective technical solutions.
• Coaches others in development of technical solutions

  Assumes Subject Matter Expert role for the mining technology solutions they are responsible for.
• Provides effective solutions to moderate technical challenges through strong technical competence, effectively examining implications of events and issues.
• Assumes accountability for personal technical performance and holds others responsible for theirs.

Communicating for Impact:
• Analyzes the interests or requirements of the audience; shares only relevant information in a direct and efficient manner.
• Adapts standard communication approaches when conducting dialogue with different audiences or conveying messages.
• Explains others' view points and asks questions to ensure mutual understanding.
• Recognizes and assesses cues or unstated intentions behind verbal and nonverbal communication.
• Provides persuasive messages using well-reasoned arguments to address audience concerns or reactions.

Customer/Market Focus:
• Represents Caterpillar to mining technology customers as technical expert.

Implements improvements to methods for maintaining customer responsiveness.
• Recommends new products and services based on changing customer needs and success criteria.
• Responds proactively to market and competitive shifts so as to maintain advantage.
• Delivers superior customer value consistently and within targets.
• Negotiates successful outcomes on behalf of difficult or dissatisfied customers.
• Coaches others to improve focus on the customer.

Managing People:
• Anticipates and manages difficult interpersonal situations and conflicts; resolves them to mutual satisfaction.
• Consults within the team; seeks inputs from subordinates and considers all views while making decisions.
• Implements coaching and mentoring programs to ensure the holistic development of employees.
• Monitors employee morale and satisfaction; recognizes employee contributions and achievements.
• Regularly reviews employee performance and provides constructive feedback.
• Works collaboratively with people from diverse backgrounds; understands their needs and perspectives.

Collaborating Globally:
• Leads a global technical  development team. 

Evaluates different viewpoints and reconciles conflicting interests to achieve a collective understanding and a group mission.
• Provides optimum solutions for complex problems by using collective intelligence of colleagues' networks.
• Trains others on the new technologies or techniques used to facilitate group interactions and improve collaboration.
• Uses internal and external network of leaderships or experts to help achieve organizational and client goals.
• Facilitates group's thinking and brainstorming activities to collectively create and share ideas.
• Oversees a team collaboration to produce positive business results.

Influencing Through Expertise:
• Communicates complex ideas and concepts in a clear and concise manner so that others can understand.
• Exhibits depth and breadth of knowledge, skill, and experience in the relevant field.
• Provides relevant, timely and objective subject matter/process expertise and key insight regarding multiple client business areas and affiliated fields.
• Provides others with information, opportunities, or resources to develop their skills in the area of expertise.
• Discards examples of persuasive arguments lacking evidentiary support or impact.
• Coaches others to enhance their proficiency regarding the tenets, practices, and examples of the 'trusted advisor' credential.

Top Candidates Will Also Have:

• 5 years’ experience working on MineStar office solutions.   
• Caterpillar Product Development Experience - NPI process / leadership experience
• Experience with application of automation and information technologies to machines
• Software and Systems Development Experience. 

Additional Information

This position will be in Tucson, AZ.

Domestic relocation assistance is available for this position.
This position requires up to 25% travel (approximately 1 week every month).

What You Will Get:

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 wage, because we value your performance, we offer a total rewards package that provides:

• Competitive Base Salary
• Annual incentive bonus plan*
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Paid time off plan (Vacation, Holiday, Volunteer, Etc.)
• 401k savings plan
• Health savings account (HSA)
• Flexible spending accounts (FSAs)
• Short and long-term disability coverage
• Life Insurance
• Paid parental leave
• Healthy Lifestyle Programs
• Employee Assistance Programs
• Voluntary Benefits (Ex. Accident, Identity Theft Protection)

*Subject to annual eligibility and incentive plan guidelines.

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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Posting Dates:

November 11, 2024 - November 18, 2024

Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen.   

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