Career Area:Engineering
Job Description:Role Definition:Sustainment Engineering requires investigations and analyses in multiple technical areas like Engineering and Logistics to ensure a continued supply and maintenance of our electrical parts and systems with managed risk. The Sustainment Project lead will be responsible to assist others or lead the planning and development of multiple complex life-extension solutions for Electrical components to assure continued Caterpillar Product functionality. The life-extension solution could involve designing out end-of-life or obsolete piece parts, redesigning components, completing a supplier transfer, or defining a component repair option.
What You Will Do:- Coach and develop team members through mentoring.
- Assist others or lead the creation and development of new components or systems to replace legacy parts.
- Assist supply specialists and buyers with supplier development and supplier performance.
- Partner with suppliers to improve quality, manage transitions, evaluate sourcing risks, and ensure continuity of supply.
- Develop and document functional requirements and translating into detail design documents.
- Participate in or lead proposal preparation, cost estimates, and technical reports.
- Understand Electrical component design and functionality in systems.
- Manage component sustainment by understanding production requirements and removal dates, service requirements, and component supply risk.
- Develop component or family long term sustainment plans by understanding the current and future obsolescence issues and any required change validation.
- Utilize Caterpillar and supplier information to monitor and resolve quality or reliability issues.
- Understand Product structure and required Engineering Data System maintenance and print change activities.
Degree RequirementRequires a degree in an accredited Mechanical or Electrical Engineering field.
What You Will Have: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 Extensive Experience:
- Reviews others' writing or presentations and provides feedback and coaching.
- Adapts documents and presentations for the intended audience.
- Demonstrates both empathy and assertiveness when communicating a need or defending a position.
- Communicates well downward, upward, and outward.
- Employs appropriate methods of persuasion when soliciting agreement.
- Maintains focus on the topic at hand.
Technical Excellence: Knowledge of a given technology and various application methods; ability to develop and provide solutions to significant technical challenges.
Level Extensive Experience:
- 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.
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.
Supplier Management - MFG: Knowledge of processes and methods to effectively manage business relationships and transactions with suppliers of raw materials or product components; ability to apply related knowledge, experience and skills into real practice.
Level Extensive Experience:
- Facilitates supplier partnering arrangements that share risk and reward.
- Monitors supplier performance; works to resolve discrepancies between performance and agreements.
- Develops quality standards and controls for suppliers.
- Builds and maintains partnerships with multiple and/or large suppliers.
- Evaluates issues and terminates supplier relationships as appropriate; works with legal departments.
- Ensures the fulfillment of report and record-keeping requirements.
What Sets You Apart:- Knowledge of electronic components.
- Knowledge of parts cancellations, service replacements, part shortages processes
- Knowledge of electronic component validation processes and standards.
Additional Information- Sponsorship is not available
- Relocation is not available
Summary Pay Range:$128,470.00 - $192,710.00
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
Posting Dates:August 20, 2026 - September 2, 2026
Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen.
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