Caterpillar, Inc

Senior Digital Project Manager

Caterpillar, Inc$112K — $169K *
Enterprise Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in digital project management, particularly in complex program environments.
  • Strong understanding of Agile delivery and software development lifecycle (SDLC).
  • Proficiency in using project management tools like Azure DevOps, Confluence, and Power BI.
  • Proven ability to manage multiple stakeholders and effectively communicate technical updates to non-technical audiences.
  • Highly organized with experience in maintaining documentation and project metrics.

Responsibilities

  • Drive project cadence and delivery for CatRentals 2.0 and related initiatives.
  • Coordinate cross-functional execution across product, engineering, and business stakeholders.
  • Establish governance routines to improve delivery predictability and project tracking.
  • Maintain plans, ownership, and performance visibility across all workstreams.
  • Prepare clear status updates and decision materials for leadership and teams.
  • Facilitate meetings and working sessions to ensure focus on outcomes and accountability.
  • Identify and enhance ways of working to support scalable delivery practices.

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)
  • Employee Assistance Program
  • Career Development
  • Tuition Reimbursement
  • Incentive bonus
  • Life Insurance
  • Parental leave
Full Job Description
Career Area:
Technology, Digital and Data

Job Description:

Job Summary:
The CatRentals Program is expanding in scope, complexity, and execution risk as CatRentals 2.0 and ongoing rental digital initiatives span dealer onboarding, UAT, data integrations, analytics, and cross-functional delivery. As a Senior Digital Project Manager supporting Rental, you will provide dedicated operational support to coordinate complex workstreams, improve delivery predictability, and strengthen cross-team alignment across product, engineering, business, dealer, and partner teams. This role will help stand up and reinforce governance processes-including intake, scope management, delivery tracking, risk management, and reporting frameworks-with the objective of supporting at least 80% on-time delivery of program commitments while scaling into future rental programs.

What You Will Do:
  • Drive project cadence and delivery for CatRentals 2.0 and related rental digital initiatives, ensuring milestones, dependencies, risks, and decisions are visible, tracked, and actively managed.
  • Coordinate cross-functional execution across product, engineering, dealer operations, implementation partners, analytics, and business stakeholders to support dealer onboarding, UAT readiness, data integrations, and go-to-market delivery.
  • Stand up and reinforce governance routines that improve delivery predictability, including intake, scope management, backlog hygiene, schedule management, delivery tracking, RAID management, documentation, and action item follow-up.
  • Support the program objective of achieving at least 80% on-time delivery of commitments by maintaining clear plans, ownership, decision logs, escalation paths, and performance visibility across workstreams.
  • Prepare clear status updates, leadership readouts, decision materials, and escalation summaries that help teams align on priorities, trade-offs, release readiness, quality concerns, and execution risks.
  • Facilitate productive meetings, working sessions, and follow-ups that keep teams focused on outcomes, unblock delivery, and reinforce accountability across teams that do not directly report into one another.
  • Identify and improve ways of working that reduce execution friction, strengthen transparency, and support scalable delivery practices for future rental programs and 2030 planning.


What You Will Have:
  • Planning: Tactical, Strategic: Knowledge of effective planning techniques and ability to contribute to operational, tactical, and strategic planning in support of the overall business plan.
  • Decision Making and Critical Thinking: Knowledge of the decision-making process and associated tools and techniques; ability to accurately analyze situations and reach productive decisions based on informed judgment.
  • Data Gathering and Reporting: Knowledge of tools, techniques, and processes for gathering and reporting data; ability to use data to provide visibility, support decision-making, and monitor delivery progress.
  • IT Project Control and Reporting: Knowledge of project control and reporting; ability to monitor the vital signs of an IT project while managing its progress, risks, dependencies, and delivery schedule.
  • IT Project Management: Knowledge of project management; ability to plan, organize, monitor, and control IT projects using appropriate technical resources.


Considerations For Top Candidates
  • Experience managing complex digital programs or projects across multiple workstreams, including dealer onboarding, UAT, data integrations, analytics, release readiness, governance, and go-to-market activities.
  • Strong understanding of software delivery practices, including Agile delivery, SDLC concepts, release planning, backlog management, dependency management, intake management, scope control, and risk/issue tracking.
  • Proficiency with Azure DevOps (ADO) and experience with collaboration and planning tools such as Confluence, Miro, Aha!, Power BI, Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, or similar tools.
  • Proven ability to engage stakeholders and communicate effectively with product, engineering, business, dealer, and leadership audiences, translating complex delivery topics into clear updates, asks, and decisions.
  • Highly organized, detail-driven, and structured, with a track record of maintaining schedules, action items, documentation, risks, decisions, delivery metrics, and dependencies across multiple teams.
  • Demonstrated ability to drive accountability without direct authority, remove blockers, facilitate alignment, and maintain momentum in ambiguous or fast-moving environments with existing dependencies and quality challenges.
  • Experience building or refining delivery processes, operating rhythms, dashboards, templates, or governance routines that improve transparency, predictability, execution quality, and on-time delivery performance.
  • Experience working with dealer-facing digital products, rental operations, ERP or integration programs, Caterpillar's digital portfolio, or scaled planning efforts is preferred.


Summary Pay Range:

$112,710.00 - $169,060.00

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

Visa Sponsorship is not available for this position.

Posting Dates:
August 5, 2026 - August 16, 2026

About Caterpillar, Inc

Progress Rail Services Corporation, a Caterpillar company, is one of the largest integrated and diversified suppliers of railroad and transit system products and services worldwide. Since its acquisition by Caterpillar Inc. in 2006, Progress Rail has used the Caterpillar international footprint to gain quick and widespread notice and approval across the globe. Product technology, reliability and durability, along with legendary aftermarket parts and service support, have been their keys to success. Caterpillar is the world's leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, diesel and natural gas engines and industrial gas turbines. The technology and world reach of Caterpillar, combined with the service standard and historical reliability of Progress Rail, ensures their products and services make a growing impact on the world rail industry. With their acquisition of Electro-Motive Diesel (EMD), Progress Rail is the world's largest builder of diesel-electric locomotives for all commercial railroad applications including freight, intercity passenger, commuter, switching, industrial and mining. EMD is also a global provider of diesel power engines for marine propulsion, offshore and land based oil well drilling rigs and stationary power generation. Electro-Motive is the only diesel engine manufacturer of its size to have produced more than 70,000 engines. This success stems from product reliability, serviceability, load acceptance capability, low operating costs and ease of maintenance with standardized components.

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Learn more about Caterpillar, Inc
Size
107,700 employees
Market Cap
$125.3 billion
Industry
Net Income
$2.9 billion
Founded
1925
5 Year Trend
+5.8%
Revenue
$41.7 billion
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