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Job Summary:

Caterpillar’s Electric Power Division is seeking a Rental Power Technical Trainer to lead the development and delivery of technical training across the global dealer network. This role is critical to enabling rental power growth by building technical capability on both Caterpillar and non-Caterpillar solutions. The Technical Trainer serves as a subject matter expert, partnering with internal teams and external suppliers to design and implement training programs that support go-to-market execution, new product introduction (NPI), and dealer readiness.

What you will do: 

• Develop and deliver technical training programs for dealer and internal teams focused on rental power applications, including generators, energy storage, hybrid systems, and supporting technologies.

• Lead training strategy and execution for both Caterpillar and non-Caterpillar products, ensuring alignment with rental fleet growth and emerging solutions.

• Partner with external suppliers and internal product teams to create and deploy training content tied to new product introductions and strategic initiatives.

• Enable dealer sales and operations teams through applied training on product application, system integration, safety, and jobsite efficiency.

• Support go-to-market efforts by providing technical expertise at key customer engagements, demos, and deployments.

• Assess dealer capability and performance, identifying gaps and opportunities to improve utilization, application effectiveness, and customer outcomes.

• Standardize and scale training delivery using modern learning tools, digital platforms, and repeatable playbooks.

What you will have:

Customer Focus: Knowledge of the values and practices that align customer needs and satisfaction as primary considerations in all business decisions and ability to leverage that information in creating customized customer solutions.
Level Expert:
• Champions, models and directs an organization's commitment to externally focused decision-making tied to customer business needs and satisfaction.
• Provides customer focused vision, strategy and leadership that exceeds customer expectations.
• Persuasively articulates the link between customer focus and enhanced business success to stakeholders.
• Teaches others to foster customer relationships based on mutual understanding, respect, trust and 'business partnering'.
• Develops 'best practices' to create, evaluate and enhance customer loyalty that are sought by others within and outside the organization.
• Consults with senior executives regarding critical success factors and details to being a customer focused organization.

Products and Services: Knowledge of major products and services and product and service groups; ability to apply knowledge of product and service appropriately to diverse situations.
Level Extensive Experience:
• Oversees development activities for multiple products or product lines.
• Advises colleagues on implementation and operational considerations.
• Coaches others on key factors that differentiate offerings from that of competition.
• Develops procedures for product planning, development, and delivery cycles.
• Promotes understanding of multiple product and service groups and their interdependencies.
• Monitors regulatory and environmental issues and considerations.

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.

Relationship Management: Knowledge of relationship management techniques; ability to establish and maintain healthy working relationships with clients, vendors, and peers.
Level Extensive Experience:
• Communicates to clients regarding expectations of all parties.
• Participates in negotiating the terms of the business relationship.
• Conducts periodic reviews of work effort, progress, issues, and successes.
• Maintains productive, long-term relationships with clients or vendors.
• Creates opportunities to educate support teams on client priorities.
• Empowers others to establish collaborative, healthy relationships.

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.

Top Candidates Will Also Have:

• Prior experience with Caterpillar generator sets.

• Prior experience with developing and facilitating training modules.

Additional Information:

• This position is located in Irving, TX or Peoria, IL.

• Travel up to 50% is required.

• Domestic relocation assistance is offered for this position.

• Visa sponsorship is not offered for this position.

• This position requires the candidate to work a 5-day-a-week schedule in the office.

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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Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen.