Senior Engineering Project Team Leader

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

As a Senior Engineering Project Team Leader in the Emissions and Product Regulatory Compliance department, you will have leadership responsibility for the business side of development, deployment, and maintenance of Caterpillar’s bespoke software systems that support various certification and compliance workflows. You will leverage expert knowledge of project leadership as well as software and IT systems to shape the vision and development roadmap for those systems. You will manage multiple or complex development projects involving multiple organizations, products, and jurisdictions to deliver solutions to meet current and future regulatory requirements and support business process execution.

Responsibilities

• Develop project scope and execution plans to address business challenges and opportunities.

• Coordinate resources across the department, engineering groups, manufacturing facilities, IT and other functional areas as needed.

• Oversee project progress and costs; communicate status with stakeholders and participating organizations; address and resolve problems; drive projects to completion on time and within budget.

• Direct project staffing, motivate and develop project team and team members.

• Manage a portfolio of high-impact, short and long duration initiatives and projects, ensuring effective prioritization of resources, achievement of development plans, usability, and business value realization.

• Provide specialized technical support and consulting to various areas of the organization.

• Develop and maintain a strategic development roadmap; partner with IT to ensure software architecture sustainably supports execution to the roadmap.

Degree Requirement 

Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience desired

Skills Descriptors

• Planning: Expert knowledge of effective planning techniques and ability to contribute to operational (short term), tactical (1-2 years) and strategic (3-5 years) planning.

• Decision Making and Critical Thinking: Expert knowledge of the decision-making process and associated tools and techniques; proven ability to accurately analyze situations and reach productive decisions based on informed judgment.

• Effective Communications: Understanding of effective communication concepts, tools and techniques; proven ability to effectively transmit, receive, and accurately interpret ideas, information, and needs through the application of appropriate communication behaviors.

• 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.

• 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.

• Team Management: Expert knowledge of effective team building techniques; proven ability to form and manage effective teams through complex, cross-functional projects.

• Requirements Development and Analysis: Extensive knowledge of tools, methods, and techniques of requirements development and 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.

• Technical Excellence: Knowledge of how to leverage software to support complex, business critical processes; ability to develop and provide solutions to significant technical challenges.

• Education : A degree in an accredited Computer Science, Engineering, or closely related curriculum.

Top candidates will also have

• Experience as part of a software development team using various methodologies, including Agile and Waterfall.

• Experience integrating multiple software systems and/or leveraging data lake technology.

• Extensive knowledge of Teamcenter and other product data management systems.

• Experience with Caterpillar's CDM system.

• Understanding of master data management principles and experience as a data owner.

• Expert knowledge in use of Microsoft content management, collaboration, and reporting tools including SharePoint and Power BI.

• Experience with multiple approaches to change management and leading teams to successful implementation of new processes and tools.

Additional Information

• This position will close 5/10/2024 at 11:59 pm.

• The location for this position is Mossville, IL (Building-AC) or Peterborough, UK.

• Domestic relocation assistance is available for this position.

• This position may require less than 15% travel.

Employee benefit details

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 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).

Final details

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. 

Please frequently check the email associated with your application, including the junk/spam folder, as this is the primary correspondence method. If you wish to know the status of your application – please use the candidate log-in on our career website as it will reflect any updates to your status.

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Posting Dates:

April 26, 2024 - May 12, 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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