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Caterpillar’s largest prime product manufacturing facility of mining products in the United States is located in Decatur, IL. This facility also serves as one of our product development hubs. In this role as an Engineering Manager, your primary work location will be Decatur, IL and you will report to the RIOP Wheeled Product Engineering Light Fabs Division Engineering Manager, where you will be primarily responsible for providing supervision and technical direction for an engineering team that is engaged in the design and development of light fabrication components and systems used on our Wheeled Mining Products that accomplish product maintenance, production support and new product introduction objectives. As a member of the Wheeled Products Engineering team, you will need to have a growth mindset, promote continuous improvement, and help build a defect-free culture. We have a fabulous team that does some of the most exciting work at Caterpillar, and we can’t wait for you to join the team!

What You Will Do

• Set strategy at the section level in alignment with Resource Industries Operations & Products (RIOP) Division priorities and objectives. The section would solve problems for one or more technology, component, product, or process.
• Decisions may impact an entire product, process or factory and may affect warranty, sales, customer perception, and could have effect of evolutionary change to technology and its application in products or processes at Caterpillar through technology and core competency.
• Project scope will vary from a moderate technical focus to a broader, multi-systems focus, and will require incumbent to broaden business understanding. Challenges include increased competitive pressure, increasing project complexity and customer demands.
• Primary accountability for operating expense budget.
• 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; as well as, ever increasing skill in technical project management, development of product, internal and external requirements management, and cost-value management.
• Draw upon knowledge of more than one engineering function, technology, component, system, product, or process is required.
• Continually increase understanding of product technology and process and the customers’ business and needs.
• Make decisions, this position will work with immediate work group or project team, division/business unit, suppliers, internal and external customers, and the market, typically impacting one or more product(s), process(es), or factory(ies).

What You Will Have

• 10+ years of relevant work experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering.

Top Candidates Will Also Have

• Experience in virtual product development and analysis
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Off Highway and/or Large Mining Trucks product experience
• Experience working with Caterpillar dealers and/or customers
• Experience leading teams and collaborating across international time zones
• Cost reduction and design simplification experience
• Product validation process knowledge
• Excellent decision-making, analytical and problem-solving skills
• Experience with Caterpillar PLM systems
• Caterpillar NPI/CPI Process knowledge and experience
• Caterpillar product application knowledge
• Light fabrication component manufacturing process knowledge
• Lean product and process development knowledge and experience
• APQP and supplier collaboration process knowledge
• Technical/personnel leadership experience
• Strong collaborative and interpersonal skills
• Assembly process knowledge
• Experience in light fabrications component design and system development

Additional Information

The primary location for this position is Decatur, IL.

Domestic relocation assistance is available.

This position may require 10% travel.

Sponsorship is not available.

This posting will close at midnight on June 18, 2023

What You Will Get

Our goal at Caterpillar is for you to have a rewarding career. Our teams are critical to the success of our customers who build a better world.

Here you earn more than just a salary because we value your performance. We offer a total rewards package that provides benefits on day one (medical, dental, vision, RX, and 401K) along with the potential of an annual bonus.

Additional benefits include paid vacation days and paid holidays (prorated based upon hire date).

Final Details

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This employer is not currently hiring foreign national applicants that require or will require sponsorship tied to a specific employer, such as H, L, TN, F, J, E, O. As a global company, Caterpillar offers many job opportunities outside of the U.S. which can be found through our employment website at www.Caterpillar.com/Careers .

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