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 PURPOSE:    
An Engineering Manager to lead a section within the DCR division within ICS Global Engineering organization.  As a First line manager, the incumbent will provide leadership to a section primarily focused on providing Engineering design, development, detailing services for various Components and Reman products.

JOB RELATED STATISTICS:

Total Operating Expenses: Less than $2 Million
Personnel: Manage a team of 20 Full time employees and 25+ Contract employees

Job Duties:

As an Engineering Manager, you will coach, guide and facilitate the development of a workgroup. The supervision role accounts for up to 100% of this assignment. The remainder of the time, the incumbent acts as an individual contributor, bringing technical expertise to the project as well.  The incumbent needs to coach and facilitate relationship building within the team, with clients, suppliers, other cross functional groups to ensure goals are achieved.

Program/project management skills and organizational skills are critical. Project management activities includes, resource planning, project allocation, tracking and status reporting to meet client expectations on quality, velocity, and cost. You would be accountable for managing the budget, resources, and expenses for the section.

Position requires excellent human relations, interpersonal, and communications skills.  Ability to draw upon the role-based competencies of Managing Vision & Purpose, Motivating Others, Developing Others, and Listening.  Ever increasing skills in the Caterpillar Leadership competencies.

You would consciously create and maintain an organizational climate / culture which encourages innovation, collaboration, excitement / commitment and a sense of urgency towards business success. You would be responsible for continuous process improvement activities, to improve the key performance deliverables. You would also provide people leadership inclusive of coaching, career planning and performance  management.

The incumbent would set strategy at the section level.  The section would solve problems for a technology, component, product, or process. Project scope will vary from a moderate technical focus on a component, product, or sub-product, and will require incumbent to broaden business understanding. The ability to draw upon foundational product development skills such as conceptual design, development of product and/or process, data analysis & extraction, failure resolution & prevention, and requirements management is required. This role requires that the incumbent increases understanding of product technology and process and the customers’ business and needs.  

To make decisions, this position will work with immediate work group or project team, division/business unit, suppliers, internal and external customers, and the market, typically impacting a product, process, or factory. Decisions may also affect warrantees, sales, customer perception, and the product through technology and core competency.  

BACKGROUND/EXPERIENCE:   
Bachelor’s degree in an accredited Engineering, Computer Science, or Materials Science curriculum plus 13-15 years of previous experience or a master’s degree in an Engineering, Computer Science, or Materials Science curriculum plus 9-12 years of previous experience or a doctorate degree in Engineering plus 5-6 years of previous experience.

Project Management experience, Stakeholder management experience, Experience of managing teams with over 10 direct employees & proven leadership skills.

Desired Skills:

6 Sigma  experience

Product Development experience in Cabs, Components, Hydraulics, Remanufacturing.

Skill Descriptors:

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 Working Knowledge:

• Delivers helpful feedback that focuses on behaviors without offending the recipient.

• Listens to feedback without defensiveness and uses it for own communication effectiveness.

• Makes oral presentations and writes reports needed for own work.

• Avoids technical jargon when inappropriate.

• Looks for and considers non-verbal cues from individuals and groups.

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 Working Knowledge:

• Identifies and documents specific problems and resolution alternatives.

• Examines a specific problem and understands the perspective of each involved stakeholder.

• Develops alternative techniques for assessing accuracy and relevance of information.

• Helps to analyze risks and benefits of alternative approaches and obtain decision on resolution.

• Uses fact-finding techniques and diagnostic tools to identify problems.

Customer/Market Focus: Understanding of the importance of remaining aware of shifting market priorities and ability to respond to internal and external customer needs in a manner that consistently adds value.

Level Working Knowledge:

• Surfaces new or unexpressed customer needs.

• Focuses product and service features and functions on the customer's critical success factors.

• Develops consistent methods for maintaining customer responsiveness.

• Delivers customer value within parameters of profitability and other targets.

• Escalates systemic problems that could affect customer satisfaction.

Managing People: Knowledge of processes involved in managing people; ability to lead successful teams, and diligently address issues related to performance and conflicts at the workplace.

Level Working Knowledge:

• Assesses the amount of time and resources needed to accomplish a task; delegates work accordingly.

• Explains how the team's work contributes to the success of the organization; creates a shared vision.

• Reviews progress and performance of employees; addresses bottlenecks or concerns impending employee growth.

• Uses multiple channels such as meetings, e-mails, newsletters to communicate important messages with the team regularly.

• Works with employees to set and define performance standards and career development goals; supports in achieving them.

Project Management: 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.

Level Extensive Experience:

• Utilizes 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.

Product Design and Development: Knowledge of product features; ability to design, build, and develop a new product, technology, or service from concept through to production, including Aftermarket.

Level Extensive Experience:

• Develops organizational standards and processes in order to maximize complex product services' efficiency and effectiveness.

• Creates and introduces new techniques that expedite or simplify the development process.

• Supervises the management of multiple and diverse types of products or services.

• Develops proof-of-concept exercises to prove or disprove validity of proposed products.

• Advises on the appropriate solutions to complex product design and development problems.

• Designs working prototypes of a variety of proposed products or services.

Relocation is available for this position.

Posting Dates:

March 24, 2025 - April 1, 2025

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