Caterpillar, Inc

Translations Project Manager

Caterpillar, Inc$72K — $108K *
Business Services
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience desired
  • 2-3 years of project management experience preferred
  • Strong project management and organizational skills
  • Excellent written and verbal communication abilities
  • Experience working with vendors and external partners
  • Attention to detail to ensure accuracy and quality across all deliverables
  • Familiarity with file types preferred

Responsibilities

  • Lead end-to-end translation and localization projects, including scope definition, scheduling, budgeting, and risk management
  • Act as the primary liaison between internal business unit clients and external vendors, ensuring clear communication and alignment on requirements and timelines
  • Oversee content quality and consistency across all deliverables, ensuring adherence to brand, terminology, and accuracy standards
  • Manage vendor relationships, including work assignment, performance monitoring, and onboarding of new resources
  • Utilize translation management systems (TMS) and AI-enabled tools to optimize workflows and improve efficiency
  • Track and report on project performance, including cost, timelines, and quality metrics, while maintaining translation assets such as glossaries and style guides

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
Full Job Description

Career Area:

Marketing

Job Description:

Job Summary:
 

The Translation Project Manager is responsible for planning, coordinating, and delivering translation and localization projects across multiple content types. This role works closely with internal business unit clients, external vendors, and linguists to ensure projects are completed on time, within budget, and meet quality standards. The Translation Project Manager also plays a key role in process improvement, vendor management, and adoption of new translation technologies, including AI-enabled solutions

What You Will Do:

  • Lead end-to-end translation and localization projects, including scope definition, scheduling, budgeting, and risk management

  • Act as the primary liaison between internal business unit clients and external vendors, ensuring clear communication and alignment on requirements and timelines

  • Oversee content quality and consistency across all deliverables, ensuring adherence to brand, terminology, and accuracy standards

  • Manage vendor relationships, including work assignment, performance monitoring, and onboarding of new resources

  • Utilize translation management systems (TMS) and AI-enabled tools to optimize workflows and improve efficiency

  • Track and report on project performance, including cost, timelines, and quality metrics, while maintaining translation assets such as glossaries and style guides

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.
Collaborating: Knowledge of collaborative techniques; ability to work with a variety of individuals and groups in a constructive and collaborative manner.
Creativity: Knowledge of the approaches, tools, and techniques for promoting creative, original thinking and ability to apply it to a variety of business situations.
Relationship Management: Knowledge of relationship management techniques; ability to establish and maintain healthy working relationships with clients, vendors, and peers.
Project Management: Knowledge of effective project management strategies and tactics; ability to plan, organize, monitor, and control projects, ensuring efficient utilization of technical and administrative resources to achieve project objectives.

Considerations For Top Candidates:

  • Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience desired

  • 2-3 years of project management experience preferred

Top Candidates Will Have:

  • Strong project management and organizational skills

  • Excellent written and verbal communication abilities

  • Experience working with vendors and external partners

  • Attention to detail to ensure accuracy and quality across all deliverables

  • Familiarity with file types preferred

Additional Details:

  • This position requires the candidate to work full-time in Peoria

  • May require coordination across multiple time zones

  • Travel up to 10% could be required for meetings

  • Sponsorship is not available

  • Relocation is not available

What You Will Get

Working with a Fortune 100 leader, you can build your career on a global scale and take advantage of development opportunities with emerging technologies. We’ve created an inclusive environment for you to explore your passions, make an impact and do the work that really matters. Join Us.


 

Summary Pay Range:

$72,360.00 - $108,540.00

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

 

 

This position requires working onsite five days a week. 

 

 

 

 

 

Posting Dates:

August 10, 2026 - August 14, 2026

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

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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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