Project Manager

Career Area:

Administrative Support

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 greater than 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.

As a Project Manager – Electric Power/Genset, you will be responsible to align, lead, plan and manage resources for implementing major Electric Power/Genset projects. This role own and manage input to the Implementation Project Plan; balancing trade-offs to maintain enterprise perspective and customer focus while planning and executing activities supporting the project implantation.

Job Duties/Responsibilities may Include, but are not limited to: 

• Manage overall project and program scheduling and activity

• Schedule and facilitate meetings as necessary. Document activities and issues that surface in the meetings and distribute this to internal and external team members.

• Assure the timely creation of key implementation documentation

• Drive continuous improvement in the efficiency by identifying and recommending new approaches, policies, and standard operating procedures.

• Resolves internal issues by assuming ownership of problems, strategizing with affected departments, and selecting and implementing solutions.

• Understand the project technical and commercial requirements, local conditions, statutory requirements

• Execute project schedule, project costing, and manage document control

• Collaborate with dealers in managing customer change orders, facilitating the project team in making sound technical and commercial assessments and decisions

• Develop the risk identification and risk mitigation strategies, jointly working with team members and dealers on projects

• Practice and manage regular communications and reporting with team members, dealers, customers, and management.  Communicate.  With excellence.  No matter how challenging that may be!

• Leverage functional area leaders and team members alike to solve business problems to ensure project objectives and requirements are met

• Institutionalize process excellence and lessons learned disciplines by conducting ‘lessons learned’ meeting(s) with all functional area leaders and responsible dealer after system turnover to end user

• Escort customer visits, witness tests, and inspections

Required Qualifications:  

• Bachelor’s Degree and 3+ years of job-related experience

• Progressive experience in new product development process, stage gates and planning

• Strong project management skills with the ability to deliver on time and on plan.

• Excellent written, oral, presentation and influencing skills.

• High level of curiosity and investigative mindset with attention to detail.

• Strong leadership skills with the ability to take initiative and drive creative ideas forward.

• Ability to thrive and adapt in a high growth, rapidly changing environment

• Passion for collaboration and ability to align multiple stakeholders

Top Candidates Will Have:

• PMP Certification

• Experience with New Product Introduction (NPI)

• Customer facing negotiation experience

Travel:

• Up to 10%

Additional Information:

• Relocation assistance is not available for this position.

• This position is located in Griffin, GA and offers a flexible work environment

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 a salary. Because we value your performance, we offer a total rewards package that provides day-one benefits, including but not limited to:

• Competitive salary and annual bonus program

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage​

• Paid time off plan (Vacation, Holiday, Volunteer, Etc.)​

• Company-matched 401(k) plan

• Stock option opportunity over time

• 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)

• Strong community involvement

Caterpillar Inc. is the world’s leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, off-highway diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines and diesel-electric locomotives. For nearly 100 years, we’ve been helping customers build a better, more sustainable world and are committed and contributing to a reduced-carbon future. Our innovative products and services, backed by our global dealer network, provide exceptional value that helps customers succeed. 

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

This employer is not currently hiring foreign national applicants that require or will require sponsorship tied to 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   #LI-Hybrid

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

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