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Job Summary:

The Release Train Engineer/Cross-Mission Delivery Lead operates the cross-mission execution system for Atlas and the broader CI portfolio cadence. This role connects plans, milestones, dependencies, risks, decisions, commitments, and evidence into one disciplined execution flow. The role facilitates alignment and recovery without replacing Product, TPM, Mission Lead, Architecture, Engineering, or delivery-team accountability.

What You Will Do:

• Lead integrated release planning and maintain a reconciled execution plan across mission teams.
• Operate the critical path, including baseline and forecast views, dependency classes, float, recovery triggers, and owner validation.
• Manage cross-mission and cross-organization dependency flow, with clear suppliers, consumers, need-by dates, impacts, escalations, and closure evidence.
• Run cross-team execution cadences and readiness forums that turn risks, decisions, commitments, and impediments into accountable follow-through.
• Coordinate release and milestone readiness, including entry and exit criteria, exceptions, mitigations, and Go/No-Go preparation.
• Operate change-control and replanning processes so material changes are evaluated, dispositioned, communicated, and traceable.
• Reconcile execution information across Azure DevOps, integrated plans, and reporting products; surface source conflicts and data-quality exceptions rather than manufacturing status.
• Drive systemic impediment removal and continuous improvement through retrospectives, Inspect and Adapt, and measurable operating-system improvements.
• Provide concise execution transparency to Portfolio and leadership, including critical-path threats, dependency impacts, recovery options, and decisions required.

What You Will Have:

• Program Management: Knowledge of practices used to plan, organize, monitor, and control a set of related projects and technical work to achieve program objectives.
• Decision Making and Critical Thinking: Ability to distinguish facts, assumptions, forecasts, and owner judgments; evaluate alternatives; and drive timely, informed decisions.
• Planning: Tactical and Strategic: Ability to translate objectives and milestones into an integrated, executable plan with credible sequencing, dependencies, checkpoints, and recovery paths.
• Change Control: Knowledge of processes through which changes are identified, evaluated, approved, monitored, communicated, and documented.
• Organizational Leadership: Ability to align diverse technical and business stakeholders, clarify roles, establish operating discipline, and influence without relying on direct authority.
• Project Control and Reporting: Ability to monitor execution health, probe delays, reconcile conflicting sources, and communicate decision-relevant status to technical and leadership audiences.
• Problem Management: Ability to identify systemic impediments, perform root-cause analysis, coordinate resolution, and prevent recurrence.

Top Candidates Will Have:

• Experience integrating complex programs across multiple teams, technical domains, suppliers, or partner organizations.
• Demonstrated ability to build and operate integrated plans, critical paths, dependency systems, readiness reviews, and recovery cadences.
• Experience facilitating scaled or cross-team planning while preserving clear ownership for scope, technical decisions, estimates, and acceptance.
• Working knowledge of Azure DevOps or comparable work-management tools, including hierarchy, dependencies, history, and reporting traceability.
• Ability to challenge dates and commitments constructively, expose uncertainty, and convert ambiguity into owners, decisions, actions, and evidence.
• Strong written and verbal communication with technical teams, program leaders, and executives.
  

Additional Details:

• This position requires the candidate towork full-time onsite at the Irving, TX office (Dallas)
• Domestic relocation assistance is available for this position.
• Visa sponsorship is NOT available 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