Director Engineering

Caterpillar Inc.; Pontiac (MI); On-site; USD 189,000 - 284,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision benefits

401(k) retirement plan

Paid time off

Job summary

Caterpillar Inc. is seeking an Engineering Director to lead manufacturing engineering, technical services, and facilities engineering across machining, heat treat, assembly, and supporting infrastructure.

You will drive lean improvements, improve asset performance, and deploy manufacturing technologies in a cross-functional environment. The role emphasizes capital deployment, process introduction, and standards across manufacturing and infrastructure, with focus on safety, quality, cost, and

Qualifications

• Degree required, Engineering degree preferred.
• Planning: Tactical, Strategic knowledge for short-term, tactical and strategic planning.
• Decision making and critical thinking using formal tools and judgment.
• Technical excellence in a given technology and application methods.
• Communicating for impact to influence others effectively.
• Customer/market focus and responsiveness to needs.
• Managing people and leading teams.
• Collaborating globally across cultures and geographies.
• Influencing through expertise to deepen impact.

Responsibilities

• Managing the engineering staff and activities toward goals and development.
• Monitoring and improving product and process performance, quality and cost.
• Providing leadership to design, develop and manufacture components and technologies.
• Managing engineering issues from concept through end of life-cycle.

Skills

Planning

Decision Making

Technical Excellence

Communicating for Impact

Customer Focus

Managing People

Collaborating Globally

Influencing Through Expertise

Education

Engineering degree

Job description

Career Area:

Engineering

Job Description:

Your Work Shapes the World at Caterpillar Inc.

When you join Caterpillar, you’rejoining a global team who cares not just about the work we do – but also about each other. We are the makers, problem solvers, and future world builders who are creating stronger, more sustainable communities. We don’tjust talk about progress and innovation here – we make it happen, with our customers, where we work and live. Together, we are building a better world, so we can all enjoy living in it.

The Engineering Director leads manufacturing engineering/technical services, process maintenance, and facilities engineering to deliver safe, reliable, efficient, and high-quality operations across machining, heat treat, assembly, and supporting infrastructure. The role develops technical teams and drives continuous improvement through lean methods, operational excellence, equipment reliability, and data-driven problem solving to improve safety, quality, delivery, cost, and asset performance.

The position also owns capital deployment, new process introduction, process maintenance strategy, and facilities engineering priorities, including planning, justification, installation, sustainment, and launch of manufacturing technologies, equipment, utilities, and facility systems. Working cross-functionally, the Engineering Director sets manufacturing and infrastructure standards, builds technical capability, improves equipment availability and facility readiness, and advances productivity, capacity, reliability, and long-term competitiveness.

What you will do:

• Managing the engineering staff and activities with an emphasis on organizational goals achievement, professional development and continuous improvement.
• Monitoring and continuously improving product and process performance, quality and cost-effectiveness for all engineering activities and deliverables.
• Providing leadership to create and maintain processes used to design, develop and manufacture components, systems, products, services, and technologies.
• Managing engineering product and manufacturing process or quality issues, from concept through end of life-cycle.

Degree Requirement:

Degree required, Engineering degree preferred

Skills you must have:

Planning: Tactical, Strategic: Expert knowledge of effective planning techniques and ability to contribute to operational (short term), tactical (1-2 years) and strategic (3-5 years) planning in support of the overall business plan.

Decision Making and Critical Thinking: Expert knowledge of the decision-making process and associated tools and techniques; ability to accurately analyze situations and reach productive decisions based on informed judgment.

Technical Excellence: Expert knowledge of a given technology and various application methods; ability to develop and provide solutions to significant technical challenges.

Communicating for Impact: Extensive knowledge of the concepts, tools and techniques for effective listening and communicating; ability to apply these theories to receive, transmit and accurately interpret information and ideas to influence others in various situations.

Customer/Market Focus: Extensive understanding of the importance of remaining aware of shifting market priorities and ability to respond to internal and external customer needs in a manner that consistently adds value.

Managing People: Extensive knowledge of processes involved in managing people; ability to lead successful teams, and diligently address issues related to performance and conflicts at the workplace.

Collaborating Globally: Expert knowledge of effective collaboration techniques and ability to build networks with people from different countries and cultures, think and work with them to bring positive impact and flourishing business results.

Influencing Through Expertise: Expert 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.

Top candidates will also have:

• Capital project management experience
• Demonstrated direct and/or indirect leadership capabilities as a leader of leaders

What you will get:

• A commitment to diversity and inclusion. Our common values and focus on inclusion and respect drive the decisions made by our company, teams, and people. Here, you can apply your unique life and job experiences, and work in a team environment where your ideas are heard, your contributions are celebrated, and your whole-self matters.
• You earn more than just a salary because we value your performance. We offer a total rewards package that provides benefits on day one (medical, dental, vision, RX, and 401K) along with the potential of an annual bonus.
• Additional benefits include paid vacation days and paid holidays (prorated based upon hire date)

Additional Information:

• Travel requirements may be less than 10%.
• This position is located in Pontiac, IL
• Domestic relocation is available.
• VISA Sponsorship is not available

Summary Pay Range:

$189,080.00 - $283,630.00

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:

September 15, 2026 - September 21, 2026

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

Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer, Including Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities. Qualified applicants of any age are encouraged to apply.

This employer is not currently hiring foreign national applicants that require or will require sponsorship tied to a specific employer, such as H, L, TN, F, J, E, O. As a global company, Caterpillar offers many job opportunities outside of the U.S. which can be found through our employment website at www.caterpillar.com/careers.