**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. **Your Work Shapes the World** Whether it be groundbreaking products, best in class solutions or creating a lifelong career, you can do the work that matters at Caterpillar. With a 95-year legacy of quality and innovation and 150 locations in countries around the world, your impact spans the globe. When you join Caterpillar, you are joining a team of makers, innovators, and doers. We are the people who roll up our sleeves and do the work to build a better world. We don’t just talk about progress and innovation. We make it happen. And we are proud of that, because it helps our customers build and power the world we live in – the roads, hospitals, homes, and infrastructure. Without a dedicated workforce Caterpillar could not effectively meet our customer’s needs. Join us. **Job Summary:** Product Owner (PO) within the Product Lifecycle Management Division with responsibility for portions of the Security Program. A Product Owner, as the name suggests, owns a product being delivered or released to our PLM customers. In this case the product is a solution functionality that delivers business value, fulfills a stakeholder need, and brings clarity and efficiency within the Security Program of the PLM division. Serving as the “voice of the customer" for the team, the PO has several key responsibilities and relationships. The PO must build and manage the relationships and synthesize information from multiple sources, maintain business alignment, communicate with various audiences – all with a bias toward delivering and learning quickly. The Product Owner is primarily responsible for maximizing the value delivered by the development teams by ensuring that the team backlog is aligned with the customer and stakeholder needs. Product Owners are an extension of the Product Management function. The PO is the team’s primary customer advocate and primary link to the business and technology strategy. This enables the team to continuously evolve a solution while balancing the needs of multiple stakeholders. As a PO you will ensure that engineering data within Teamcenter remains in compliance with defined Government Regulations by working closely with Export Compliance Managers, evaluating / tracking classification reports, and identifying classification issues. Will work closely with Program Manager (PM) to identify and document required enhancements needed for the Government Classification Process or customer access updates related to regulation/regulatory changes. **What You Will Do:** • Coordinates with product development staff and engineering customers to track and communicate design, development, support, and issue resolutions within Teamcenter Security processes and Tools. • Identifies, documents, and reports design, reliability and maintenance problems and bugs. Gathers and consolidates feedback from engineering customers. • Answers customer questions; provides guidance and support for product integration and open issues. • Participating in the adoption of new technologies and processes to achieve greater efficiency, cost reduction and quality improvement. • Planning and improving engineering procedures and operations to make the product or process more reliable, efficient and cost-effective. • Collaborating with all functional areas, (marketing, purchasing, manufacturing) to provide a design solution that meets the requirements of the customer and dealer network. • Provides day-to-day support to engineering customers in relation to Teamcenter Security product implementation, customization, questions, and problems, **What Skills You Will Have:** **Analytical Thinking:** • Approaches a situation or problem by defining the problem or issue and determining its significance. • Makes a systematic comparison of two or more alternative solutions. • Uses flow charts, Pareto charts, fish diagrams, etc. to disclose meaningful data patterns. • Identifies the major forces, events and people impacting and impacted by the situation at hand. • Uses logic and intuition to make inferences about the meaning of the data and arrive at conclusions. **Effective Communications:** • Delivers helpful feedback that focuses on behaviors without offending the recipient. • Listens to feedback without defensiveness and uses it for own communication effectiveness. • Makes oral presentations and writes reports needed for own work. • Avoids technical jargon when inappropriate. • Looks for and considers non-verbal cues from individuals and groups. **Technical Excellence:** • Provides effective technical solutions to routine functional challenges via sound technical competence, effectively examining implications of events and issues. • Effectively performs the technical job aspects, continuously building knowledge and keeping up-to-date on technical and procedural job components. • Applies technical operating and project standards based on achieving excellence in delivered products, technologies and services. • Applies current procedures and technologies to help resolve technical issues in one's general area of technical competence. • Helps others solve technical or procedural problems or issues. **Team Management:** • Differentiates characteristics of effective and dysfunctional teams. • Explains the importance of a cohesive team effort and the concept of synergy. • Compares traditional teams to virtual teams. • Identifies key factors and requisite activities for building an effective team. **Engineering:** • Assists in problem resolution, drafting and writing requirements for and use cases for engineering practices specifically for Security, IP, and control of engineering data. **Troubleshooting Technical Problems:** • Documents common hardware, software and communications problems and likely resolutions. • Troubleshoots typical technical problems in a specific area. • Works with vendor-specific diagnostic guides, tools and utilities to discover application problems. • Adheres to standard troubleshooting procedures to ensure effectiveness of resolutions. • Participates in setting evaluation standards and criterion for troubleshooting. **Additional Information** The location for this position is Mossville, IL. Relocation assistance is not available for this position. Any relocation costs incurred would be the responsibility of the selected candidate. This position will require less than 10% travel. **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 wage, because we value your performance, we offer a total rewards package that provides: + Competitive Base Salary + Annual incentive bonus plan* + Medical, dental, and vision coverage + Paid time off plan (Vacation, Holiday, Volunteer, Etc.) + 401k savings plan + Health savings account (HSA) + Flexible spending accounts (FSAs) + Short and long-term disability coverage + Life Insurance + Paid parental leave + Healthy Lifestyle Programs + Employee Assistance Programs + Voluntary Benefits (Ex. Accident, Identity Theft Protection) *Subject to annual eligibility and incentive plan guidelines. **Final details** Please frequently check the email associated with your application, including the junk/spam folder, as this is the primary correspondence method. If you wish to know the status of your application – please use the candidate log-in on our career website as it will reflect any updates to your status. _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_ _._ For more information, visit caterpillar.com. To connect with us on social media, visit caterpillar.com/social-media \#LI **Summary Pay Range:** $95,640.00 - $143,520.00 Compensation and benefits offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, job level, market location, job-related knowledge, skills, individual performance and experience. Please note that salary is only one component of total compensation at Caterpillar. **Benefits:** Annual incentive bonus plan* Medical, dental, and vision coverage Paid time off plan (Vacation, Holiday, Volunteer, Etc.) 401k savings plan Health savings account (HSA) Flexible spending accounts (FSAs) Disability benefits Life Insurance Parental leave Healthy Lifestyle Programs Employee Assistance Programs Voluntary Benefits and Employee Discounts Tuition Reimbursement Career Development _*Subject to annual eligibility and incentive plan guidelines_ . Visa Sponsorship is not available for this position. 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. **Posting Dates:** February 11, 2025 - February 25, 2025 Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen. EEO/AA Employer. All qualified individuals - Including minorities, females, veterans and individuals with disabilities - are encouraged to apply. Not ready to apply? Join our Talent Community (http://flows.beamery.com/caterpillarinc/talcom) .