Engineering Project Team Leader – Heavy Structures

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. The Tracked Products Engineering Heavy Structures team is currently seeking an Engineering Project Team Leader for Hydraulic Mining Shovels product which includes heavy structures components such as booms, sticks, upper frame, carbody, track roller frames and more.  Engineers on the team gain broad exposure to design, analysis, test, manufacturing, and supplier collaboration.  The selected candidate will play an important role in leading and coaching engineers to develop and continuously improve the features, process, quality, and cost.

The Engineering Project Team Leader for the Tracked Products Engineering Heavy Structures team will lead both new product design (NPI) and design improvements to current and legacy products (CPI/NSI/Maintenance) for all the major heavy structural components. The Engineering Project Team Leader will work with their team and business partners on design concepts, collaboration with suppliers and internal manufacturing, along with validation methods including FEA, test, and field trials. This position will focus first and foremost on product and process quality with a zero-defect mindset while also trying to hit program timeline and cost goals. The Engineering Project Team Leader will need strong communication skills and great interpersonal skills to interact with external suppliers, engineering teams, the platform team, purchasing teams, and global manufacturing team . In addition, the team leader needs a strong technical background to help train and onboard team members locally and overseas. What Skills Will You 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. • 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.

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