Career Area:
Engineering
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 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.
Description
Supervision and technical direction to salaried and management personnel engaged in manufacturing, supply chain, development or research activities related to a single technology, component, product, or sub-process which accomplish product maintenance and new product introduction objectives.
Job Duties
Reporting to this position are various levels of engineers, technologists, and support personnel in one or multiple geographic locations. The supervision role accounts for up to 50% of this assignment. The remainder of the time, the incumbent acts as an individual contributor, bringing technical expertise to the project as well. Program/project management skills and organizational skills are critical. 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. The incumbent would set strategy at the section level. The section would solve problems for a single technology, component, product, or sub-process in the Energy & Transportation portfolio in manufacturing and supply chain. Project scope will vary from a moderate technical focus on a component, product, or subproduct, and will require incumbent to broaden business understanding. Therefore, the ability to draw upon foundational manufacturing skills such as manufacturing process planning, digital manufacturing, supply chain readiness support, data analytics and asking skill in technical project management. 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 single product, process, or factory. Decisions may affect build readiness, line down situations, sales, customer perception, and the product through technology and core competency. Primary accountability for operating expense budget.
Basic Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in an accredited Engineering, Supply chain or Materials Science curriculum plus 9-12 years of experience or a Master's in Engineering, Supply chain, or Materials Science curriculum plus 6-8 years of experience or a doctorate degree plus 1-2 year of experience.
Top Candidates will also have
Advanced Degree
Other experience
Additional Information
The location for this position is Mossville, IL with additional locations in Seguin, TX, Lafayette, IN, Griffin, GA
Domestic relocation assistance is available for this position.
This position may require up to 25% 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
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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 .
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