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Job Summary

The Motor and Generator Solutions Team at Caterpillar develops the motors and generators that drive electric powertrains across the company’s machine portfolio. In the Engineering Project Team Lead role, you will lead the design and development of nextgeneration motor and generator technologies while also advancing the performance, cost-effectiveness, and durability of current products.

What You Will Do

• Develop project budgets and forecast resource needs optimizing staffing and workflows for efficient, high-quality project execution.

• Collaborate with machine and drivetrain teams to document requirements and manage the scope, objectives, and deliverables of motor component projects.

• Lead crossfunctional teams to execute projects effectively, ensuring timely delivery and adherence to Caterpillar processes.

• Serve as the primary liaison between engineering, leadership, and external partners, providing clear and timely technical and program status updates.

• Communicate risks, issues, and dependencies early while effectively managing expectations around project scope, timelines, and resources.

• Leverage the expertise of Caterpillar SMEs to apply best practices, enhance design efficiency, and elevate the overall capability and skill level of the team.

What You Will Have

Bachelor's degree or higher in an engineering discipline.

Technical Excellence: Extensive experience and knowledge of a given technology and various application methods; ability to develop and provide solutions to significant technical challenges.

• Advises others on the assessment and provision of all technical solutions.

• Engages appropriate subject matter resources to effectively resolve technical issues.

• Mentors others to enhance their technical competence and its application to achieve more effective technical solutions.

• Coaches others in promoting, defining, analyzing, and providing superior technical solutions to business problems.

• Provides effective solutions to moderate technical challenges through strong technical competence, effectively examining implications of events and issues.

• Assumes accountability for personal technical performance and holds others responsible for theirs.

Influencing Through Expertise: Extensive experience and 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.

• Communicates complex ideas and concepts in a clear and concise manner so that others can understand.

• Exhibits depth and breadth of knowledge, skill, and experience in the relevant field.

• Provides relevant, timely and objective subject matter/process expertise and key insight regarding multiple client business areas and affiliated fields.

• Provides others with information, opportunities, or resources to develop their skills in the area of expertise.

• Discards examples of persuasive arguments lacking evidentiary support or impact.

• Coaches others to enhance their proficiency regarding the tenets, practices, and examples of the 'trusted advisor' credential.

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.

• Champions organization's project management methodology, tools, and techniques.

• Manages multiple high-risk, high-cost projects involving multiple stakeholders.

• Coaches others in open communication among project stakeholders.

• Monitors major projects for critical path and actual status versus planned.

• Consults on project planning and management of high-risk, high-impact projects.

• Monitors industry for fresh approaches and tools for project management.

Team Management: Extensive experience and knowledge of effective team building techniques; ability to form and manage effective teams.

• Brings projects to closure and ensures capture of what can be learned from the experience.

• Leads the definition of team mission and objectives for a variety of teams.

• Employs appropriate techniques for maintaining team enthusiasm, energy, and focus.

• Ensures that team members are on board, unified, and moving in the same direction.

• Communicates both within the team and to stakeholders.

• Learns and utilizes special talents and work styles of team members.

Requirements Analysis: Extensive experience and 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.

• Plays an active or leading role in recording and storing requirement documents in various forms.

• Ensures the successful completion of all major activities, tasks and deliverables pertaining to the requirement analysis stage.

• Supervises the advanced use of requirements analysis tools and services, including prototyping and use cases.

• Produces detailed functional and information requirements models and documentation.

• Trains others on requirements walkthroughs and quality reviews.

• Utilizes automated diagramming tools to ensure traceability of requirements.

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

• 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.

What Will Set You Apart

• Experience designing components or systems for offroad machines or the automotive industry.

• Experience with new product introduction.

• Demonstrated strong oral and written communication skills.

• Self-starter with strong technical and analytical skills.

• Demonstrated team leadership and project management skills.

Additional Information

• This position is located in Mossville, IL and requires 5-day a week on-site availability

• Domestic travel up to 10% & minimal international travel is required

• Domestic relocation assistance is offered for this position

• Visa sponsorship is not offered for this position

Summary Pay Range:

Compensation and benefits offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, job level, market location,job-related knowledge, skills, individual performance and experience. Please note that salary is only one component of total compensation at Caterpillar.

Benefits:

Subject to plan eligibility, terms, and guidelines. This is a summary list of benefits.

• Medical, dental, and vision benefits*

• Paid time off plan (Vacation, Holidays, Volunteer, etc.)*

• 401(k) savings plans*

• Health Savings Account (HSA)*

• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)*

• Health Lifestyle Programs*

• Employee Assistance Program*

• Voluntary Benefits and Employee Discounts*

• Career Development*

• Incentive bonus*

• Disability benefits

• Life Insurance

• Parental leave

• Adoption benefits

• Tuition Reimbursement

* These benefits also apply to part-time employees

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