Career Area:
Manufacturing
Job Description:
Job Summary
Caterpillar is seeking a Senior Facilities Project Engineer in Sanford, North Carolina, to lead the integration and delivery of the facility systems required to bring a new advanced manufacturing site safely from design through production readiness. The role will focus on campus construction and facilities-related capital projects to support operations. This role coordinates electrical, mechanical, civil, building-control, and manufacturing interfaces while managing integrated scope, schedule, cost, quality, and risk.
You will work within the Facilities Engineering Team, which provides technical expertise and project leadership for facilities-related initiatives. You will manage system interfaces and dependencies, resolve ownership gaps, and ensure that design and execution decisions support the facility. You may bring deep expertise in one engineering discipline, but you must be able to challenge assumptions, evaluate trade-offs, and make sound decisions across disciplines.
You will manage facilities related initiatives in areas such as warehouse and distribution, fabrication, assembly, office, and other general facility-level capital investments. You will partner with business leaders, engineering teams, consultants, contractors, and service providers to deliver safe, timely, and financially responsible results.
What You Will Do
Capital Project Leadership
- Lead facility planning, design, construction, commissioning, and operational readiness activities while managing project scope, budgets, schedules, and execution strategies.
- Identify and resolve cross-functional risks, ownership gaps, and critical decisions, escalating issues with clear business impacts and recommendations to maintain safety, quality, cost, schedule, and launch objectives.
Integrate Facility and Manufacturing Systems
- Serve as a facilities engineering expert, translating operational needs into integrated design, execution, and readiness plans for office, warehouse, distribution, and manufacturing environments.
- Lead the integration and performance of facility, utility, infrastructure, controls, network, and manufacturing systems, applying multidisciplinary expertise to optimize design decisions and operational outcomes.
Consultant & Contractor Management
- Lead and manage consultants, contractors, and suppliers through design, construction, commissioning, and project execution while ensuring safety, quality, cost, and schedule performance.
- Partner with manufacturing, operations, maintenance, safety, quality, IT, and OT teams to resolve priorities, manage trade-offs, and deliver successful project outcomes.
Stakeholder Engagement & Business Partnership
- Translate complex technical challenges into clear business recommendations, risks, and decision-ready project updates for leadership.
- Build stakeholder alignment and guide project decisions that support operational goals and long-term business objectives.
Control Cost, Schedule, Risk, Readiness, and Continuous Improvement
- Lead project controls, governance, capital planning, and facility optimization initiatives while ensuring safety, quality, sustainability, compliance, and financial stewardship.
- Oversee commissioning, turnover, and continuous improvement activities, including testing, documentation, training, maintenance strategies, and technical mentoring.
What You Will Have
Project & Program Management: Demonstrated experience managing integrated scope, schedules, milestones, budgets, forecasts, change control, performance reporting, and recovery plans for complex capital projects.Ability to manage multiple sizable projects and make cost, schedule, and risk trade-offs while protecting the overall business case.A record of anticipating risks, determining root causes, evaluating alternatives, escalating decisions, and driving corrective actions through verified closure.Success delivering projects in complex, matrixed organizations.
Leadership & Influence: Ability to align discipline engineers, contractors, suppliers, and internal partners; establish accountability; and drive commitments without direct reporting authority.Ability to communicate complex facility and project information clearly to senior leaders and facilitate timely, fact-based decisions.Experience negotiating construction contracts, developing supplier relationships, and influencing decisions across organizational levels.
Construction & Facilities Knowledge: Experience with facility planning, design, construction, commissioning, project delivery, and capital investment processes.Experience coordinating consultants, architects, contractors, and multidisciplinary engineering teams.Demonstrated judgment integrating electrical, mechanical, and civil infrastructure scopes and resolving dependencies across an industrial facility.Experience validating system performance and confirming that documentation, training, maintenance strategies, punch-list closure, and turnover requirements are complete and accepted.
Problem Solving & Execution: Demonstrated ability to resolve ambiguous, cross-functional problems while maintaining focus on safety, business objectives, and critical milestones.Disciplined follow-through, including clear ownership, documented decisions, timely escalation, and verified closure.
Top Candidates Will Also Have
- Bachelors degree in engineering, construction management, facilities engineering, or a related discipline
- Demonstrated experience delivering capital projects in large industrial or manufacturing facilities from design through construction, commissioning, and production readiness.
- Demonstrated experience leading multidisciplinary project teams and managing integrated cost, schedule, quality, and risk.
- Experience integrating electrical, mechanical, utility, civil, structural, fire-protection, building-control, and manufacturing-equipment requirements across a complex facility.
- Technical depth in at least one facility discipline, with broad working knowledge of electrical, mechanical, and civil infrastructure systems and their interfaces.
- Experience leading design, constructability, safety, integrated testing, and readiness reviews and driving field issues, nonconformances, and punch-list items to closure.
- Knowledge of applicable building, fire, environmental, safety, and engineering codes and standards for industrial facilities.
- Professional Engineer (PE), Project Management Professional (PMP), Certified Facility Manager, Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED), or a comparable credential, where relevant.
What You Will Get
- Shape the systems, standards, and operating environment for a highly visible advanced-manufacturing campus.
- Influence decisions across engineering, construction, operations, maintenance, safety, quality, information technology, and operational technology.
- Create lasting operational value by delivering safe, reliable, scalable facility infrastructure and a disciplined transition to production.
Additional Info:
- Location: Sanford, North Carolina
- Work Arrangement: Onsite, five days per week. Locations may flex between temporary offices while transitioning to new facility.
- Travel: High percentage of travel (50-75%) may be required during construction planning, supplier reviews, equipment installation, commissioning, startup and production ramp-up.
- Schedule: This will be a demanding and very rewarding role. Selected candidate should have schedule flexibility to meet project requirements.
- Relocation: US domestic relocation is available
- Visa Sponsorship: 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
