Engineering Project Team Leader

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Summary:   As a Cylinder Pack Engineering Project Team Leader, you will provide technical leadership and strategic direction for cylinder pack products and systems across the Large Power Systems Division. You will lead a team of engineers responsible for the design, development, validation, and lifecycle management of critical engine components, including pistons, rings, and liners, while ensuring alignment with platform, business, and customer objectives.   In this role, you will serve as the primary technical focal point for cylinder pack systems, establishing product strategies, technology roadmaps, and long-term development plans that support diesel, natural gas, and alternative fuel reciprocating engines serving customers around the world. You will provide engineering leadership across multiple programs and platforms, guiding key technical decisions, managing technical risk, and ensuring designs meet performance, durability, manufacturability, quality, and cost objectives.   You will coach, mentor, and develop engineers across varying levels of experience, fostering technical excellence, accountability, and professional growth within the team. You will help engineers strengthen their technical capabilities, expand their understanding of engine systems, and successfully navigate increasingly complex engineering challenges and leadership opportunities.   Working closely with global engineering teams, suppliers, manufacturing facilities, and cross-functional stakeholders, you will drive alignment across product platforms and organizations, ensuring effective execution from concept development through production launch and ongoing product support. You will provide oversight of critical engineering activities, facilitate issue resolution, champion best practices, and ensure the successful delivery of strategic business objectives.   As a recognized technical leader, you will identify emerging technologies, assess future customer and market needs, and shape the direction of cylinder pack products and systems for future engine platforms. You will influence engineering standards, develop organizational capability, and build strong partnerships across Caterpillar’s global engineering and manufacturing organizations to deliver innovative and sustainable solutions.

Build expertise as the technical owner for PRL cylinder pack components, leveraging knowledge from current subject matter experts while assuming responsibility for the design, development, validation, and lifecycle management of assigned cylinder pack products. Lead a team in the execution of New Product Introduction, New Source Introduction, New Technology Introduction, and Continuous Product Improvement programs Communicate results to customers, suppliers, team members, and other business units Acts as the voice of the team in meetings with multiple levels of management and with customers. Setting project-level strategy and solving problems relating to a technology, component, product, or process. Ability to draw upon foundational product development skills such as conceptual design, development of product and/or process, data analysis & extraction, failure resolution & prevention, and requirements management is required Skill in technical project management, development of product internal and external requirements management, and cost management. Accountable for pulling together a team of individuals