Onsite Portfolio Governance Lead — Irving, TX

Caterpillar Inc.; Irving (TX); On-site; USD 128,000 - 193,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision benefits

Paid time off

401(k) savings plans

Health Savings Account

Flexible Spending Accounts

Career Development

Incentive bonus

Parental leave

Job summary

Caterpillar Inc. in Irving, TX, seeks a Portfolio Operations & Governance Lead to manage governance records and drive decision traceability across Atlas and the CI portfolio.

You’ll maintain forums, capture decisions, and ensure outcomes align with roadmaps and execution, while coordinating with multiple teams and stakeholders. This onsite role emphasizes risk, dependencies, and change control, plus governance calendar stewardship and data quality.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of practices and tools used to administer complex projects, maintain records, track dependencies and completion dates, and ensure consistent execution of defined controls.
• Ability to connect near-term actions, forums, dependencies, and milestones to broader program and portfolio outcomes.
• Translate standards into practical operating routines, required evidence, clear ownership, review readiness, and closure.
• Identify missing information, distinguish fact from assumption, frame unresolved decisions, and elevate material exceptions.
• Knowledge of processes used to document, evaluate, approve, communicate, and trace changes to scope, dates, milestones, decisions, and commitments.
• Ability to validate source lineage, identify missing or stale information, maintain shared definitions, and prevent unsupported conclusions from entering leadership reporting.
• Coordinate across technical, product, financial, business, and leadership stakeholders with professionalism, persistence, and sound judgment.

Responsibilities

• Operate integrated risk, issue, dependency, action, decision, and reconciliation registers, ensuring each item has clear ownership, timing, status, evidence, and disposition.
• Prepare Portfolio and cross-mission forums by confirming required inputs, decision questions, pre-reads, evidence, attendees, and escalation paths.
• Record decisions, actions, dependencies, and change dispositions during or immediately after forums; publish outcomes and track closure.
• Monitor aging, overdue checkpoints, missing owners, incomplete mitigations, unresolved dependencies, and stale records; elevate control failures through the agreed path.
• Administer controlled Portfolio documents, version history, source traceability, approval status, open questions, and reconciliation of conflicting role or process statements.
• Support execution of the Portfolio Operating Model and Ways of Working by maintaining governance calendars, readiness checklists, artifact standards, and compliance evidence.
• Coordinate with the RTE, Deputy Portfolio Manager, TPMs, Mission Leads, Product, Architecture, Finance, Reporting, and delivery teams to connect governance records to roadmap and execution impacts.
• Maintain reporting readiness by validating source links, data-quality exceptions, metric definitions, and the traceability of executive statements to governed records.
• Identify recurring control breakdowns and support process improvements that reduce manual follow-up, duplicate reporting, delayed decisions, and unowned work.

Skills

Project Administration

Planning

Governance and Process Discipline

Decision Making and Critical Thinking

Change Control

Data and Reporting Quality

Relationship Management

Tools

Azure DevOps

Power BI

SharePoint

Microsoft 365

Job description

Caterpillar Inc. in Irving, TX, seeks a Portfolio Operations & Governance Lead to manage governance records and drive decision traceability across Atlas and the CI portfolio.

You’ll maintain forums, capture decisions, and ensure outcomes align with roadmaps and execution, while coordinating with multiple teams and stakeholders. This onsite role emphasizes risk, dependencies, and change control, plus governance calendar stewardship and data quality.