Career Area:Engineering
Job Description:Role DefinitionWe are seeking a
Senior Engineering Project Team Leader. This person will manage multiple or complex engineering projects involving multiple functions, organizations, products, or value chains.
What You Will Do:- Own the system-level technical requirements and architecture for their assigned engine platform or subsystem
- Serve as the primary technical interface between software, hardware, validation, applications, and product groups.
- Lead issue resolution for system integration problems, field issues, and product performance gaps.
- Guide CRMs, design decisions, and technical studies, ensuring changes align with system intent and program goals.
Support new product introductions (NPI), validation planning, and release readiness from a system perspective. - Mentor system engineers and contribute to technical strategy, roadmap planning, and risk management within the Gas Engine Systems portfolio.
Degree RequirementDegree required; an engineering degree is preferred, ideally in mechanical or electrical engineering.
What You Will Have:Influencing Through Expertise: 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.
Level Extensive Experience:
- Communicates complex ideas and concepts in a clear and concise manner so that others can understand.
- Exhibits depth and breadth of knowledge, skill, and experience in the relevant field.
- Provides relevant, timely and objective subject matter/process expertise and key insight regarding multiple client business areas and affiliated fields.
- Provides others with information, opportunities, or resources to develop their skills in the area of expertise.
- Discards examples of persuasive arguments lacking evidentiary support or impact.
- Coaches others to enhance their proficiency regarding the tenets, practices, and examples of the 'trusted advisor' credential.
Requirements Analysis: Knowledge of tools, methods, and techniques of requirement analysis; ability to elicit, analyze and record required business functionality and non-functionality requirements to ensure the success of a system or software development project.
Level Extensive Experience:
- Plays an active or leading role in recording and storing requirement documents in various forms.
- Ensures the successful completion of all major activities, tasks and deliverables pertaining to the requirement analysis stage.
- Supervises the advanced use of requirements analysis tools and services, including prototyping and use cases.
- Produces detailed functional and information requirements models and documentation.
- Trains others on requirements walkthroughs and quality reviews.
- Utilizes automated diagramming tools to ensure traceability of requirements.
Troubleshooting Technical Problems: Knowledge of troubleshooting approaches, tools and techniques; ability to anticipate, detect and resolve technical problems in a manufacturing or product development environment.
Level Extensive Experience:
- Evaluates business impact of failure and the criticality and timing of needed resolution.
- Resolves difficult or high-impact equipment and systems problems.
- Monitors machine performance and history; addresses excessive maintenance or repair needs.
- Coaches others how to resolve integration or communications problems in multi-vendor environment.
- Applies specific techniques for isolating a problem and defining resolution approach.
- Uses advanced diagnostic techniques and tools for unusual or performance-related problems.
Additional Information- Relocation is available
- Sponsorship is not available
Summary Pay Range:$147,760.00 - $221,640.00
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:July 13, 2026 - August 2, 2026
