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.

Engineering Project Team Leader

Relocation Assistance Available

Lafayette, Indiana

As an Engineering Project Team Lead in the Core Components team, you will have leadership responsibility for Core Castings (Engine blocks, cylinder heads, housings, and head to block joint components) within Large Power Systems Division. You will contribute to the development and maintenance of diesel, natural gas, and alternative fuel reciprocating engines serving a variety of customers across the world. You will partner with a global team of engineers, suppliers, and production facilities to develop products throughout their lifecycle through the phases of concepting, design, validation, production, and post-production support.

What you will do:

• New Source Introduction (NSI) and capacity increase programs
• Mentor team members on NSI, APQP, PPAP, and PCN processes
• Collaborate and communicate with internal and external customers, suppliers, team members, manufacturing facilities, and other business unit
• Represent Core Components Engineering Organization to internal partners in platform, purchasing, operations, etc.

Skill Descriptors:

• Communication: Expert level communication skills dealing with production shop floor employees to VP level audience.
• Products and Services: Extensive knowledge of major products and services and product and service groups; ability to apply knowledge of product and service appropriately to diverse situations.
• Technical Excellence: Extensive knowledge of a given technology and various application methods; ability to develop and provide solutions to significant technical challenges.
• Influencing Through Expertise: Extensive knowledge of effective influencing tactics and strategies; ability to use these to deepen own expertise and impact or challenge decisions within and outside own organization
• Project Management: Expert knowledge of effective project management strategies and tactics; ability to plan, organize, monitor, and control projects, ensuring efficient utilization of technical and administrative resources to achieve project objectives.
• Team Management: Expert knowledge of effective team building techniques; ability to form and manage effective teams.
• Requirements Analysis: Extensive knowledge of tools, methods, and techniques of requirement analysis; ability to elicit, analyze and record required business functionality and non-functionality requirements to ensure the success of a system or software development project.
• Troubleshooting Technical Problems: Extensive knowledge of troubleshooting approaches, tools and techniques; ability to anticipate, detect and resolve technical problems in a manufacturing environment.
• Product Design and Development: Expert knowledge of product features; ability to design, build, and develop a new product, technology, or service from concept through to production.
• Education: Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in an accredited Engineering, Engineering Technology, Manufacturing, and/or Material Science curriculum

Top candidates will also have:

• Experience working on engine platform or component engineering projects
• Demonstrated examples of stakeholder and interpersonal communication excellence 
• New source introduction and cost reduction experience
• APQP, PPAP, PCN, and design releasing experience
• Validation definition experience using FMEA and DVP&R methods

What you will get:

• A commitment to diversity and inclusion. Our common values and focus on inclusion and respect drive the decisions made by our company, teams, and people. Here, you can apply your unique life and job experiences, and work in a team environment where your ideas are heard, your contributions are celebrated, and your whole-self matters. 
• 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)

Additional Information:

• This position may require travel up to 20%
• This position is located in Lafayette, IN
• Domestic relocation is Available
• VISA Sponsorship is NOT Available

Final details:

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Relocation is available for this position.

Visa Sponsorship is not available for this position. 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.

Posting Dates:

August 13, 2024 - August 29, 2024

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

EEO/AA Employer.  All qualified individuals - Including minorities, females, veterans and individuals with disabilities - are encouraged to apply.

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