Engineering Manager: Analytics, PLM & Tools Onsite

Caterpillar; Clayton (NC); On-site; USD 128,000 - 193,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision benefits

401(k) savings plans

Bonus/incentive programs

Paid time off

Job summary

Caterpillar’s Clayton Machine Development Center seeks an Engineering Manager for Analytics, PLM, and Tools to lead a global, high-performing team delivering data-driven solutions. You will shape strategy, establish governance, and drive adoption of analytics, PLM enhancements, and automation across engineering and business functions.

You will partner with engineering, IT, purchasing, and other groups to transform data into actionable insights, enabling smarter decisions and cost-effective

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, data science, computer science, information systems, or a related field.
• Experience leading technical teams, projects, or workstreams in an engineering or business environment.
• Experience with Power BI, Tableau, or similar business intelligence software, including the development of visually effective, intuitive reporting and decision-support solutions.
• Experience with Snowflake or a comparable cloud-based data warehouse or enterprise data platform.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to engage both technical and nontechnical audiences.
• Proficiency with Microsoft 365 applications, including Teams, Excel, PowerPoint, and Word.

Responsibilities

• Build, lead, and develop a high-performing team across analytics, PLM, and engineering productivity tools.
• Define the team’s strategy, roadmap, governance, priorities, and performance measures.
• Partner with internal customers to prioritize needs and deliver scalable technical solutions.
• Deliver intuitive dashboards, reports, interfaces, and shared data products that translate insights into action and support informed decision-making.
• Improve PLM systems and develop automation tools that streamline workflows, increase adoption, and reduce cost and rework.
• Partner with enterprise teams to acquire, govern, and analyze telematics and other business-critical data, turning it into actionable insights.
• Apply AI and machine learning to analytics products and engineering workflows where they create measurable value.
• Communicate the team’s value, drive adoption, support investment decisions, and share best practices and reusable solutions across Caterpillar.

Skills

Data analysis

Team collaboration

Analytical thinking

Troubleshooting

Requirements analysis

Products and services knowledge

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering, data science, computer science, information systems, or related field

Tools

Power BI

Tableau

Snowflake

Microsoft 365

Job description

Caterpillar’s Clayton Machine Development Center seeks an Engineering Manager for Analytics, PLM, and Tools to lead a global, high-performing team delivering data-driven solutions. You will shape strategy, establish governance, and drive adoption of analytics, PLM enhancements, and automation across engineering and business functions.

You will partner with engineering, IT, purchasing, and other groups to transform data into actionable insights, enabling smarter decisions and cost-effective