Career Area:Manufacturing
Job Description:Job SummaryWe are seeking a visionary and execution-focused
ManufacturingEngineering Manager to help manage Caterpillar's motor prototyping facility in Noblesville, Indiana. This site represents a pivotal step in advancing our division's electrification strategy and will play a critical role in developing multiple motor technologies. You will be responsible for scaling operations, fostering a culture of innovation, safety, and collaboration. You will lead a team of operations professionals, ensuring alignment with strategic goals and delivering high-impact results.
Additional Information• This role will be located in Noblesville, IN
• Up to 15% domestic travel will be required.
• This role does not provide relocation.
• This role does not offer sponsorship.
What you will do- Recruit, develop, and manage a high-performing cross-functional team.
- Oversee prototyping activities and ensure alignment with electrification technology roadmaps.
- Collaborate with internal stakeholders across engineering, manufacturing, and supply chain.
- Drive continuous improvement, quality, and safety initiatives.
What you will have- Proven leadership experience in manufacturing, R&D, or prototyping environments.
- Strong understanding of electric motor technologies and product development cycles.
- Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to thrive in a dynamic, startup-like environment within a global enterprise.
Operations: Extensive knowledge of motor manufacturing plants and operations. Experience in a variety of operational roles from supply chain to quality.
• Designs awareness programs for multi- and cross-functional issues of the regulatory environment., and validation relevant industry practices from an operations perspective and works accordingly.
• Recommends efficiencies in operational functions wherever possible.
Collaborating: Extensive expertise in working cross functionally with engineering, design, testing, and validation in order to drive process design for manufacturability.
• Demonstrates experience engendering collaborative processes that lead to problem solving and the achievement of business goals.
• Deemphasizes divides; focuses on collaboration across generations, functions, regions, and levels.
• Implements methods for people to come together on the fly to make decisions, solve problems, and develop products/services.
Continuous Transformation: Working knowledge of evolving the business to remain competitive; ability to understand, adapt oneself to, respond to and proactively seek changes and innovation in the business environment to improve the competitive advantage of an organization.
• Implements new systems, procedures and tools efficiently when changes occur in the work environment.
• Explains lessons or experiences learned from mistakes and failures as well as successes.
• Communicates and analyzes assumptions about a particular issue with colleagues to gain new perspectives or more effective solutions.
Influencing Through Expertise: Working 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.
• Analyzes the needs, desires, and motivations of the other party to effectively understand a given scenario.
• Provides evidentiary support while giving opinions or recommendations to influence decision-making.
• Conducts tasks in such a way as to build a strong reputation and credibility as an expert in the field.
Project Management: Extensive 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.
• Plans, estimates, staffs, organizes and monitors significant projects.
• Identifies risks and vulnerabilities; creates contingency plans.
• Maintains open communication among project participants and interested parties.
Lean Manufacturing: Expert knowledge of the philosophy, principles and implementation approaches of lean manufacturing; ability to integrate and implement lean manufacturing philosophy into existing production and management processes.
• Mentors others on the organizational and cultural transformation needed for effective lean implementation.
• Creates training programs for the approaches to developing and executing a lean supplier strategy.
Top candidates will also have- Demonstrated people leadership experience with a record of building high-performing teams and driving a culture of safety and continuous improvement.
- Experience leading startup or early-stage manufacturing/prototyping operations.
- Working knowledge of electrification technologies (batteries, inverters, ePowertrain systems).
This position will be posted until 11:59PM CDT on July 8, 2026Summary 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:Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen.
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