Release Train Engineer — Cross‑Mission Delivery Lead

Caterpillar Inc; Irving (TX); On-site; USD 148,000 - 222,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Retirement plan

Paid time off

Health Savings Account

Flexible Spending Accounts

Career Development

Incentive bonus

Disability benefits

Life Insurance

Parental leave

Tuition Reimbursement

Employee Discounts

Job summary

Caterpillar Inc. in Irving, TX is seeking a Release Train Engineer to lead cross-mission delivery for Atlas and CI portfolios. You will connect plans, milestones, dependencies, risks, decisions, commitments, and evidence into a disciplined execution flow.

This full-time onsite role requires coordinating cross-team cadences, readiness, and governance while enabling safe, productive operations on real jobsites. Domestic relocation assistance is available and visa sponsorship is not provided.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering complex programs across multiple teams.
• Ability to build integrated plans, critical paths, and dependency systems.
• Experience facilitating scaled cross-team planning with clear ownership.
• Knowledge of Azure DevOps and work-management practices.
• Ability to challenge dates, expose uncertainty, and drive decisions.
• Strong written and verbal communication with executives.

Responsibilities

• Lead integrated release planning and maintain a reconciled execution plan across mission teams.
• Operate the critical path, including baseline and forecast views, dependency classes, float, recovery triggers, and owner validation.
• Manage cross-mission and cross-organization dependency flow, with clear suppliers, consumers, need-by dates, impacts, escalations, and closure evidence.
• Run cross-team execution cadences and readiness forums that turn risks, decisions, commitments, and impediments into accountable follow-through.
• Coordinate release and milestone readiness, including entry and exit criteria, exceptions, mitigations, and Go/No-Go preparation.
• Operate change-control and replanning processes so material changes are evaluated, dispositioned, communicated, and traceable.
• Reconcile execution information across Azure DevOps, integrated plans, and reporting products; surface source conflicts and data-quality exceptions rather than manufacturing status.
• Drive systemic impediment removal and continuous improvement through retrospectives, Inspect and Adapt, and measurable operating-system improvements.
• Provide concise execution transparency to Portfolio and leadership, including critical-path threats, dependency impacts, recovery options, and decisions required.

Skills

Program Management

Decision Making

Planning

Change Control

Organizational Leadership

Project Control

Problem Management

Azure DevOps

Tools

Azure DevOps

Job description

Caterpillar Inc. in Irving, TX is seeking a Release Train Engineer to lead cross-mission delivery for Atlas and CI portfolios. You will connect plans, milestones, dependencies, risks, decisions, commitments, and evidence into a disciplined execution flow.

This full-time onsite role requires coordinating cross-team cadences, readiness, and governance while enabling safe, productive operations on real jobsites. Domestic relocation assistance is available and visa sponsorship is not provided.