Engineering Project Team Leader - Core Components, Head, Blocks & Housings

Caterpillar Inc.; Lafayette (IN); On-site; USD 95,000 - 145,000; Full time

Job summary

Caterpillar Inc. is seeking an engineering leader in Indiana to drive multiple complex projects within the Large Power Systems Division.

The role focuses on designing and delivering heads, blocks, and housings with quality, manufacturability, and cost targets in mind. You will guide cross-functional teams across procurement, product development, and manufacturing, ensuring alignment with strategic priorities and timelines.

Qualifications

• Requires a degree in an accredited Engineering, Computer Science, or Materials Science curriculum or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead teams in execution of New Product Introduction, New Source Introduction, and Continuous Product Improvement programs.
• Develop and maintain project plans, scope, timelines, resources, deliverables, and product requirements to address product challenges and opportunities within the Heads, Blocks, and Housings team.
• Coordinate resources across the business through engagement and collaboration with procurement, product development groups, value chain, manufacturing, and suppliers.
• Oversee project progress and costs; communicate status with stakeholders and participating functional areas; address and resolve problems.
• Direct project team; facilitate project meetings, provide team communications, document actions, and ensure accountability across team and stakeholders.
• Utilize project strategy and problem solving methodology to organize project plans, communications, and deliverables to teams and stakeholders.

Skills

Team leadership

Project management

Cross-team coordination

Stakeholder communication

Mentoring

Problem solving

Strategic planning

Education

Engineering degree

Job description

Job Description

Your Work Shapes the World at Caterpillar Inc. When you join Caterpillar, you're joining 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't just 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.

Career Area

Engineering

Job Description

Your Work Shapes the World at Caterpillar Inc. When you join Caterpillar, you're joining 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't just 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.

About LPSD

The Large Power Systems Division (LPSD) is part of Caterpillar’s Power & Energy segment. Through this global organization, Caterpillar designs and manufacture large (greater than 18 liters) diesel and natural gas engines, powertrains and key engine systems. LPSD products and solutions support customers across power generation, industrial, marine, oil & gas, rail, services and Cat machine applications worldwide.

Job Summary

This role provides engineering leadership of multiple complex engineering projects within LPSD’s Core Components Heads, Blocks, and Housings team. Projects will require consideration of multiple functions, organizations, products, and value chains. Focus will be on improving heads, blocks, and housing design to meet product quality, supply, offerings, manufacturability, and cost objectives. This role has impact across multiple platforms, guides key technical decisions, and ensures continuing development and innovation within Caterpillar’s global engineering organizations.

What You Will Do

• Lead teams in execution of New Product Introduction, New Source Introduction, and Continuous Product Improvement programs
• Develop and maintain project plans, scope, timelines, resources, deliverables, and product requirements to address product challenges and opportunities within the Heads, Blocks, and Housings team.
• Coordinate resources across the business through engagement and collaboration with procurement, product development groups, value chain, manufacturing, and suppliers.
• Oversee project progress and costs; communicate status with stakeholders and participating functional areas; address and resolve problems. Identify challenges, roadblocks, and associated solutions, and elevate issues and delays to leaders.
• Direct project team; facilitate project meetings, provide team communications, document actions, and ensure accountability across team and stakeholders.
• Utilize project strategy and problem solving methodology to organize project plans, communications, and deliverables to teams and stakeholders.

Degree Requirement

Requires a degree in an accredited Engineering, Computer Science, or Materials Science curriculum or equivalent experience

What You Will Have

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

Level Extensive Experience:

• Advises others on the assessment and provision of all technical solutions.
• Engages appropriate subject matter resources to effectively resolve technical issues.
• Mentors others to enhance their technical competence and its application to achieve more effective technical solutions.
• Coaches others in promoting, defining, analyzing, and providing superior technical solutions to business problems.
• Provides effective solutions to moderate technical challenges through strong technical competence, effectively examining implications of events and issues.
• Assumes accountability for personal technical performance and holds others responsible for theirs.

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.

Level Expert:

• Champions organization's project management methodology, tools, and techniques.
• Manages multiple high-risk, high-cost projects involving multiple stakeholders.
• Coaches others in open communication among project stakeholders.
• Monitors major projects for critical path and actual status versus planned.
• Consults on project planning and management of high-risk, high-impact projects.
• Monitors industry for fresh approaches and tools for project management.

Team Management

Knowledge of effective team building techniques; ability to form and manage effective teams.

Level Extensive Experience:

• Brings projects to closure and ensures capture of what can be learned from the experience.
• Leads the definition of team mission and objectives for a variety of teams.
• Employs appropriate techniques for maintaining team enthusiasm, energy, and focus.
• Ensures that team members are on board, unified, and moving in the same direction.
• Communicates both within the team and to stakeholders.
• Learns and utilizes special talents and work styles of team members.

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