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.

Role Definition
Manages multiple or complex engineering projects involving multiple functions or sites.

Responsibilities
•    Coordinating with the businesses and platform groups to manage resources for each deliverable within the project.
•    Overseeing project progress and costs; communicating status with stakeholders and participating functional areas; addressing and resolving problems.
•    Influencing project staffing; motivating and developing project team and team members.
•    Communicating with customers and managing expectations; ensuring effective use of project controls and reporting mechanisms.

• Leading Digital Transformation in all business verticals with focus on Robotic /  Cobotic ,  Industry 4.0 / 5.0 in the areas of welding, fabrication, painting, machining and assembly & Logistics. 
• Coordinating new project capital investments across verticals to ensure adherence to business needs while ensuring technology adaptations appropriately. 
• Leading Industrial Engineering activities in all value streams of business.  

Degree Requirement
Degree or equivalent experience desired

Skill Descriptors
Planning: Tactical, Strategic: Knowledge of effective planning techniques and ability to contribute to operational (short term), tactical (1-2 years) and strategic (3-5 years) planning in support of the overall business plan.
 Level Extensive Experience: 
•    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.

Products and Services: Knowledge of major products and services and product and service groups; ability to apply knowledge of product and service appropriately to diverse situations.
 Level Extensive Experience: 
•    Oversees development activities for multiple products or product lines.
•    Advises colleagues on implementation and operational considerations.
•    Coaches others on key factors that differentiate offerings from that of competition.
•    Develops procedures for product planning, development, and delivery cycles.
•    Promotes understanding of multiple product and service groups and their interdependencies.
•    Monitors regulatory and environmental issues and considerations.

Quality Management: Knowledge of quality management methods, tools, and techniques and ability to create and support an environment that meets the quality goals of the organization.
 Level Working Knowledge: 
•    Utilizes quality indicators relevant to own unit or function.
•    Adheres to organizational quality management processes and practices.
•    Applies key aspects of continuous improvement processes and evaluates impact on quality.
•    Uses quality evaluation tools and techniques such as walkthroughs and inspections.
•    Works with quality assurance methods, tools and techniques.

Effective Communications: Understanding of effective communication concepts, tools and techniques; ability to effectively transmit, receive, and accurately interpret ideas, information, and needs through the application of appropriate communication behaviors.
 Level Expert: 
•    Works to create a climate that values and rewards good oral and written communication.
•    Communicates effectively with diverse audiences, using appropriate media and language.
•    Monitors developments in communications tools for potential use by organization.
•    Writes reports, articles, or books for distribution to the business or professional community.
•    Ensures important messages are clearly understood.
•    Coaches others on methods of improving their own communications.

Problem Solving: Knowledge of approaches, tools, techniques for recognizing, anticipating, and resolving organizational, operational or process problems; ability to apply knowledge of problem solving appropriately to diverse situations.
 Level Extensive Experience: 
•    Ensures capture of lessons to be learned from a problem-solving effort.
•    Organizes potential problem solvers and leads problem resolution efforts.
•    Uses varying problem-solving approaches and techniques as appropriate.
•    Contributes to standard practices for problem-solving approaches, tools, and processes.
•    Analyzes and synthesizes information and devises alternative resolution strategies.
•    Develops successful resolutions to critical or wide-impact problems.

Customer Service Management: Knowledge of customer service priorities and ability to utilize tools and techniques for maintaining an environment where all understand, and are committed to providing excellent service to internal and external customers.
 Level Extensive Experience: 
•    Communicates with clients on quality of service measurements.
•    Ensures teams maintain focus on value-added services.
•    Conducts and acts on reviews of open service requests.
•    Identifies and resolves gaps in customer expectations versus actual service levels.
•    Negotiates the terms of deliverables, service level agreements, and expectations.
•    Verifies client satisfaction and keeps customers informed.

Program Management: Knowledge of the policies and techniques to manage a set of related projects within a program; ability to plan, organize, monitor, and control the set of projects, ensuring efficient utilization of technical and administrative resources to achieve program objectives.
Level Extensive Experience: 
•    Evaluates risks and vulnerabilities, and creates contingency plans.
•    Advises others on preferred tools, techniques and methods for estimating program cost and time.
•    Conducts regular and ad-hoc program reviews with project managers, team and clients.
•    Coaches others in maintaining open communication among project managers and interested parties.
•    Oversees reporting requirements, and creates monitoring and control mechanisms.
•    Plans, estimates, staffs, organizes and monitors a set of projects within a program.

Design for Manufacturability (DFM): Knowledge of design for manufacturability guidelines, methodologies, and use cases; ability to use this knowledge to optimize product designs and manufacturing operations.
 Level Working Knowledge: 
•    Analyzes the implementation challenges of DFM methodologies and shares them with their supervisors.
•    Documents each stage of the design process for audit and review purposes.
•    Follows standard guidelines and best practices while carrying out DFM procedures.
•    Implements DFM methodologies to standardize product designs, simplify operations, and reduce costs for certain types of manufacturing processes.
•    Utilizes basic DFM tools and technologies to implement DFM methodologies.
 

Relocation is available for this position.

Posting Dates:

August 29, 2024 - September 12, 2024

Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EEO).

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