Lead Value Engineer

Caterpillar Brazil; Belo Horizonte; Presencial; BRL 260 000 - 460 000; Tempo integral

Vantagens oferecidas por esta oferta de emprego

Medical plan

Dental plan

Pension plan

Profit share

Meal assistance

Christmas basket

Transportation

Life insurance

Extended parental leave

Employee groups

Resumo da oferta

Caterpillar Brazil is seeking a Lead Value Engineer to drive regional value engineering for MineStar technologies and related mining solutions. You will establish baselines, build business cases, and work with Commercial teams to demonstrate quantified value across customer sites.

You will apply mining operations and planning expertise to evaluate cycles, fleet sizing, and operational constraints while collaborating with global peers to ensure credible, evidence-based deployment outcomes.

Qualificações

• Bachelor's degree in Mining Engineering, Industrial Engineering or a related field.
• Significant experience in mining operations, mine planning or operational improvement roles.
• Experience with MineStar or similar fleet management, autonomy or mining technology solutions.
• Experience developing business cases, value baselines, benchmarks or simulations for mining or industrial operations.
• Proficiency with mine planning, simulation or analytics tools (e.g., haulage simulation, scheduling software, Excel modeling, Power BI or similar).
• Customer-facing experience supporting commercial pursuits, consulting or technical sales.
• Experience working across cultures and with remote, site-based and customer-embedded teams.
• Advanced English is required.

Responsabilidades

• Lead value engineering for the region, serving as the go-to expert for customer business case analysis across new pursuits and existing customer sites.
• Establish value baselines for customer operations using operational, production, cost and performance data.
• Build value simulations and business case models that quantify the productivity, cost, safety and utilization impact of MineStar technologies.
• Apply mine planning and operational expertise to evaluate haul cycles, fleet sizing, equipment utilization and constraints that drive value.
• Partner with Commercial and Sales teams to shape customer value propositions, support pursuits and provide domain expertise in customer discussions.
• Baseline existing operations and translate performance insights into benchmarks for future sites.
• Define value targets and assumptions that regional teams use for deployment success.
• Present value findings and business cases to operations, planning, finance and executives.

Conhecimentos

Mining Operations Expertise

Mine Planning Experience

Business and Value Acumen

Customer Focus

Data Gathering & Analysis

Technical Excellence

Consulting Ability

Relationship Management

Effective Communications

Problem Solving

Advanced English

Formação académica

Bachelor's degree in Mining Engineering

Industrial Engineering or related field

Advanced degree or business/finance qualification preferred

Ferramentas

Excel

Power BI

Descrição da oferta de emprego

Career Area: Product Support

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The Lead Value Engineer is the regional value engineering lead, responsible for building the value case behind Caterpillar's mining technology solutions in AmS. Reporting to the Global Manager, Performance & Value Intelligence, this role establishes value baselines, models future‑state performance and sets the customer business case that defines success for every deployment. In this role, you will apply deep mining operations and mine planning expertise to understand how a customer's operation performs today and quantify the value MineStar™ technologies, including Autonomous Haulage Systems (AHS), Fleet Management, Onboard and Underground solutions, can unlock. You will work with Commercial teams during pursuits, and with regional Customer Value Enablement teams during delivery, to make sure the business case is credible, evidence-based and achievable. You will work closely with peers in Performance Intelligence and Performance Monitoring to baseline existing operations. You will then apply those insights and benchmarks to assess the value potential of new sites and customers.

What You Will Do

Lead value engineering for the region, serving as the go‑to expert for customer business case analysis across new pursuits and existing customer sites. Establish value baselines for customer operations using operational, production, cost and performance data. Build value simulations and business case models that quantify the productivity, cost, safety and utilization impact of MineStar technologies. Apply mine planning and operational expertise to evaluate haul cycles, fleet sizing, equipment utilization, material movement and operating constraints that drive value. Partner with Commercial and Sales teams to shape customer value propositions, support pursuits and provide domain expertise in customer discussions. Work with Performance Intelligence and Performance Monitoring peers to baseline existing operations and translate performance insights into benchmarks for future sites. Apply global benchmarking from existing deployments to assess value potential and readiness at new and prospective customer sites. Define the value targets and assumptions that regional Customer Value Enablement teams use as the definition of success during deployment. Support value realization reviews by comparing actual performance to the business case, explaining gaps and recommending what will close them. Present value findings and business cases to customer operations, mine planning, finance and executive stakeholders. Contribute to global value engineering standards, methods and tools, and share lessons learned across regions.

Scope & Impact

Regional individual contributor, and the recognized value engineering authority for the region. Sets the customer business case that anchors commercial commitments and deployment success. Significant engagement with customer operations, mine planning and executive leadership, as well as dealer and Commercial teams. Informs where and how Customers will obtain return in their investments with new site deployments by connecting proven performance to future value potential. Key contributor to the global capability for establishing value and proving it is real.

What Skills Will You Bring?

Mining Operations Expertise Deep understanding of surface and/or underground mining operations, including load and haul, fleet management and the operational drivers of productivity and cost.

Mine Planning Experience Experience with short- and long-term mine planning, production scheduling, fleet sizing and haulage analysis, and translating plans into operational and financial outcomes.

Business and Value Acumen Proven ability to build value baselines, business cases and financial models, and to communicate the conditions required to achieve and sustain value.

Customer Focus Proven ability to use the customer business case as the definition of success and connect technology performance to customer outcomes.

Data Gathering & Analysis Strong analytical capability using operational, production, financial and benchmark data to quantify performance gaps and value potential.

Technical Excellence Working knowledge of MineStar™, autonomous haulage, fleet management or similar mining technologies, and how they change operating workflows and performance.

Consulting Ability Ability to advise customers and Commercial teams on value opportunities, challenge assumptions constructively and recommend credible, evidence-based targets.

Relationship Management Experience building trusted relationships with customer operations and planning leaders, Commercial teams, dealers and global peers.

Effective Communications Ability to explain complex analysis clearly, from site engineers to customer executives, and build confidence in the business case.

Problem Solving Proven ability to identify the root drivers of performance gaps and recommend practical actions that close them.

Top Candidates Will Also Have

• Bachelor's degree in Mining Engineering, Industrial Engineering or a related field; advanced degree or business/finance qualification preferred.
• Significant experience in mining operations, mine planning or operational improvement roles.
• Experience with MineStar™ or similar fleet management, autonomy or mining technology solutions.
• Experience developing business cases, value baselines, benchmarks or simulations for mining or industrial operations.
• Proficiency with mine planning, simulation or analytics tools (e.g., haulage simulation, scheduling software, Excel modeling, Power BI or similar).
• Customer-facing experience supporting commercial pursuits, consulting or technical sales.
• Experience working across cultures and with remote, site-based and customer-embedded teams.
• Advanced English is required.

Additional Information

This position requires the candidate to work full-time in the Belo Horizonte office. This position will require up to 25% travel, including customer site visits. Note: The position requires the candidate to work onsite five days a week.

• Medical plan
• Dental plan
• Medicines reimbursement
• Psychological, Legal, Social and Finance Support Program
• Private pension plan
• Profit share
• Meal assistance
• Christmas basket
• Transportation
• Life and personal insurance
• Extended maternity and paternity leave
• Employee resources group (Young Professional, Women in Networking, LAMBDA (LGBTQIA+), Latin Group and Active in Sport)
• *Caterpillar reserves the right to change or modify benefits at any time, subject prior notice and in compliance with legal requirements.

Benefit elegibility may vary by position and location.

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