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.

Job Description Summary

At Caterpillar, we work to help our customers build a better world. Without our team of talented, bright and driven individuals, we wouldn’t be the Caterpillar we are today. Now, this is your chance to join our team and do work that matters. We want you to help us enable customer success, make progress possible around the world and help our communities grow and thrive. We are looking for a dynamic, organized self-starter to join our Cat Technology Division as a Mining Component Platform Lead in Bibra Lake (Perth), Australia.

Cat Technology collaborates with partners across the Caterpillar enterprise to advance technologies including autonomy and automation, which helps enhance site safety, productivity and efficiency across customer operations worldwide. Cat Technology also owns enterprise-wide initiatives in innovation, research and development, manufacturing automation and advanced materials, ensuring Caterpillar continues to lead the industry in technological excellence and engineering innovation.

We’re committed to our customers, who build a better world with our products, services and solutions. We understand and show the value of why they should always choose us. We’re exploring new ideas and opportunities –innovating to discover the breakthroughs necessary for tomorrow’s growth.


Role Definition
Component product and team owner of Caterpillar wireless ranging technology that is comprised of several devices used as mounted on site infrastructure, mounted on machines and worn by personnel to conduct ranging in our autonomous, automated and safety products in underground and surface mining operations. As product owner, you are responsible for the development life cycle: maintaining current to driving development of the next generation of the product.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of engineers that is responsible for establishing requirements, executing design, certifying for specific country operation, sourcing, delivering and maintaining this wireless product.

• Overseeing project progress and costs; communicating status with suppliers, stakeholders and participating functional areas; addressing and resolving problems.

• Directing project staffing; motivating and developing project team and team members.

• Lead these efforts utilizing Caterpillar New Product Introduction and Advanced Quality processes.

Degree Requirement

• Requires a Bachelor’s degree in an accredited Engineering, Computer Science, or Materials Science curriculum.

Key Skills Required:

Effective Communications:

• Creates and/or reviews others' writing or presentations and provides feedback and coaching.

• Adapts documents and presentations for the intended audience.

• Demonstrates both empathy and assertiveness when communicating a need or defending a position.

• Communicates well downward, upward, and outward.

• Employs appropriate methods of persuasion when soliciting agreement.

• Maintains focus on the topic at hand.

Relationship Management:

• Communicates to clients and suppliers regarding expectations of all parties.

• Participates in negotiating the terms of the business relationship.

• Conducts periodic reviews of work effort, progress, issues, and successes.

• Maintains productive, long-term relationships with clients or vendors.

• Creates opportunities to educate support teams on client priorities.

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 promoting, defining, analyzing, and providing superior technical solutions to business problems.

• 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.

Project Management:

• Utilises preferred tools, techniques and methods for estimating project cost and time.

• Plans, estimates, staffs, organizes and monitors significant projects.

• Identifies risks and vulnerabilities; creates contingency plans.

• Conducts regular and ad-hoc project reviews with project team, sponsors, and clients.

• Maintains open communication among project participants and interested parties.

• Communicates reporting requirements; creates monitoring and control mechanisms.

Electronics Engineering:

• Anticipates the challenges and opportunities associated with creating printed circuit boards and electronic assemblies

• Advises on matching methodology, materials and tools to the electronic product that is being built.

Supplier Management:

• Facilitates supplier partnering arrangements that share risk and reward.

• Monitors supplier performance; works to resolve discrepancies between performance and agreements.

• Builds and maintains partnerships with suppliers.

• Evaluates issues and maintains supplier relationships as appropriate; works with purchasing and legal departments.

• Ensures the fulfillment of report and record-keeping requirements.

Troubleshooting Technical Problems:

• Evaluates business impact of failure and the criticality and timing of needed resolution.

• Coaches others how to resolve communication problems in multi-vendor environment.

• Applies specific techniques for isolating a problem and defining resolution approach.

Top candidates will have:

• Strong communication and organisational skills that will be utilized in the planning, execution, and communication process of an electronic component development program from working level engineers to senior leaders.

• Ability to establish a vision for the product and work a generational delivery plan.

• Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills to go along with degree from an accredited engineering program.

• Previous experience in delivering electronic products to production as a working level engineer and/or as a lead engineer

• Previous experience with supplier interaction, particularly contract manufacturers.

• Previous experience in system integration of electronic components.

Additional Information:

• This position requires the candidate to work 5 days in office

• Relocation is not available.

• Sponsorship is not available

This position requires working onsite five days a week.

 

Visa Sponsorship is not available for this position.

Posting Dates:

March 24, 2026 - April 7, 2026

Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer.  Qualified applicants of any age are encouraged to apply

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