Legacy Team Project Lead

Caterpillar Brazil; Mossville (IL); On-site; USD 128,000 - 193,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision benefits

Paid time off plan

401(k) savings plans

Health Savings Account

Incentive bonus

Job summary

Caterpillar Inc. seeks a Sustainment Engineer to lead life-extension solutions for electrical components and assure continued product functionality. You will mentor teammates, coordinate supplier development, and translate requirements into detailed design documents.

You will manage obsolescence, perform change validation, and develop long-term sustainment plans while partnering with suppliers to ensure ongoing supply and reliability across Caterpillar products.

Qualifications

• Requires a degree in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering.
• Experience mentoring teams and leading complex sustainment projects.
• Strong collaboration with suppliers and cross-functional partners.

Responsibilities

• Lead life-extension projects for electrical components to ensure continued Caterpillar product functionality.
• Mentor team members and assist supply specialists with supplier development.
• Develop and document long-term sustainment plans addressing obsolescence and change validation.
• Collaborate with suppliers to improve quality and manage supply risk.
• Prepare proposals, cost estimates, and technical reports.

Skills

Mentoring

Supplier development

Quality management

Project management

Communication

Education

Bachelor's or higher in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering

Tools

Engineering Data System

Job description

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 Advanced Power Technologies

Advanced Power Technologies (APT) defines and delivers Caterpillar’s next generation of power system technologies. The organization leads product strategy, long term technology roadmaps, and lifecycle leadership for advanced power, electrification, electronic controls, software, and energy solutions across the entire range of Power and Energy applications. APT integrates hardware, software, and digital services to deliver scalable, reliable, and future‑ready power solutions. Partnering closely with product groups, engineering, and global delivery teams, APT balances near‑term business execution with long‑term technology leadership—enabling best in class electronics quality, fast response to market changes, differentiated customer value through vertical integration, improved uptime, and sustainable power systems across Caterpillar’s Power and Energy product portfolio.

Role Definition

Sustainment Engineering requires investigations and analyses in multiple technical areas like Engineering and Logistics to ensure a continued supply and maintenance of our electrical parts and systems with managed risk. The Sustainment Project lead will be responsible to assist others or lead the planning and development of multiple complex life‑extension solutions for Electrical components to assure continued Caterpillar Product functionality. The life‑extension solution could involve designing out end‑of‑life or obsolete piece parts, redesigning components, completing a supplier transfer, or defining a component repair option.

What You Will Do

Coach and develop team members through mentoring. Assist others or lead the creation and development of new components or systems to replace legacy parts. Assist supply specialists and buyers with supplier development and supplier performance. Partner with suppliers to improve quality, manage transitions, evaluate sourcing risks, and ensure continuity of supply. Develop and document functional requirements and translating into detail design documents. Participate in or lead proposal preparation, cost estimates, and technical reports. Understand Electrical component design and functionality in systems. Manage component sustainment by understanding production requirements and removal dates, service requirements, and component supply risk. Develop component or family long term sustainment plans by understanding the current and future obsolescence issues and any required change validation. Utilize Caterpillar and supplier information to monitor and resolve quality or reliability issues. Understand Product structure and required Engineering Data System maintenance and print change activities.

Degree Requirement

Requires a degree in an accredited Mechanical or Electrical Engineering field.

What You Will Have

Effective Communications: Understanding of effective communication concepts, tools and techniques; ability to effectively transmit, receive, and accurately interpret ideas, information, and needs through the application of appropriate communication behaviors. Level Extensive Experience: Reviews others' writing or presentations and provides feedback and coaching. Adapts documents and presentations for the intended audience. Demonstrates both empathy and assertiveness when communicating a need or defending a position. Communicates well downward, upward, and outward. Employs appropriate methods of persuasion when soliciting agreement. Maintains focus on the topic at hand.

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 Extensive Experience: Utilizes preferred tools, techniques and methods for estimating project cost and time. Plans, estimates, staffs, organizes and monitors significant projects. Identifies risks and vulnerabilities; creates contingency plans. Conducts regular and ad‑hoc project reviews with project team, sponsors, and clients. Maintains open communication among project participants and interested parties. Communicates reporting requirements; creates monitoring and control mechanisms.

Supplier Management - MFG: Knowledge of processes and methods to effectively manage business relationships and transactions with suppliers of raw materials or product components; ability to apply related knowledge, experience and skills into real practice. Level Extensive Experience: Facilitates supplier partnering arrangements that share risk and reward. Monitors supplier performance; works to resolve discrepancies between performance and agreements. Develops quality standards and controls for suppliers. Builds and maintains partnerships with multiple and/or large suppliers. Evaluates issues and terminates supplier relationships as appropriate; works with legal departments. Ensures the fulfillment of report and record-keeping requirements.

What Sets You Apart

Knowledge of electronic components.

Knowledge of parts cancellations, service replacements, part shortages processes.

Knowledge of electronic component validation processes and standards.

Additional Information

Sponsorship is not available Relocation is not available Caterpillar Inc. is the world’s leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, off-highway diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines and diesel-electric locomotives. For nearly 100 years, we’ve been helping customers build a better, more sustainable world and are committed and contributing to a reduced‑carbon future. Our innovative products and services, backed by our global dealer network, provide exceptional value that helps customers succeed.

Summary Pay Range

Pay Range: $128,470.00 - $192,710.00 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

• 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

August 20, 2026 - September 2, 2026

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

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

We hire smart, friendly people and it shows in our culture. We hold ourselves to high standards and make sure our values of integrity, excellence, teamwork, commitment and sustainability come to life in the way we work. We make sure our employees feel continuously challenged while also supported. We provide professional growth opportunities, including leadership programs. We celebrate the diversity of our team, while also working together as one Caterpillar. Our culture, like everything at our company, is made possible by each employee’s contribution. Person by person, we create the environment we work in, and we are proud of the Caterpillar we’ve built.