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.

Our Product Support and Logistics Division (PSLD) is one of the most innovative divisions within Caterpillar. In PSLD, as within all of Caterpillar, our priority is our customers and helping them build a better world. We touch nearly every element of the services value stream from procurement to design and manufacturing to distribution. PSLD is responsible for Aftermarket Parts Distribution of Cat Parts, Integrated Logistics, segment Procurement and the design and manufacture of Wear Components (Undercarriage and GET) and Maintenance Components (Seals, Tubes & Hardware, Hose & Couplings, Fluids and Filters). 

As the Engineering Project Team Lead within the ST&H – Rubber Components team in PSLD, you will meet set goals and contribute technical expertise to projects.  You will manage your own development, continuously learning new business knowledge and skills through experience.  Strong program/project management and organizational skills are critical for success in this role.

The job involves developing project scopes for rubber components, directing their design and development, and ensuring they meet performance, durability, and cost targets.  It includes coordinating resources, overseeing project progress, and resolving issues. The role also supports test bench maintenance, develops new test capabilities, and uses FEA results for validation.  Additionally, it requires evaluating manufacturing issues, mentoring team members, and managing multiple projects.  Proficiency in technical tools and methodologies, strong analytical and communication skills, and a hands-on approach in a lab environment are essential.

Additional Information:

Location:  Mossville, IL (United States)Required Travel:  10% (Domestic)Sponsorship:  None.Relocation Assistance Offered:  None.Our team embraces flexibility through a hybrid work model.  In addition to working onsite at our facility in Mossville, IL, our hybrid work model allows employees the flexibility to work from home based on business need.

What You Will Do:

Project Scope Development:  Develop project scope to address business challenges and opportunities involving multiple functions, organizations, and products related to rubber components.Concept, Design, and Development:  Direct and participate in the concept, design, and development of rubber components (e.g., suspension and damping components), ensuring superior performance, durability, quality, and serviceability while meeting cost and delivery targets.Resource Coordination:  Coordinate resources across product groups, manufacturing facilities, and process partners to meet set goals.Project Oversight:  Oversee project progress and costs, communicate status with stakeholders and participating functional areas, and address and resolve problems.Test Bench Support:  Support the repair and maintenance of local test benches, including documenting spare parts.Test Capability Development:  Direct and participate in the development of new or improved test capabilities by collaborating with process partners.FEA Guidance:  Use FEA results to develop test plans and validation activities using local test benches and interpret data to enhance component performance in the field.Expertise Utilization:  Utilize deep expertise to impact or challenge decisions within and outside the organization.Issue Resolution:  Evaluate, troubleshoot, define, and resolve issues in the internal manufacturing facility.Mentorship:  Mentor team members to enhance their technical competence in promoting, defining, analyzing, and providing superior technical solutions to business problems.

What You Have (Basic Requirements):

Products and Services:  Knowledge of major products and services and product and service groups; ability to apply knowledge of product and service appropriately to diverse situations.Oversees development activities for multiple products or product lines.Advises colleagues on implementation and operational considerations.Coaches’ others on key factors that differentiate offerings from that of competition.Develops procedures for product planning, development, and delivery cycles.Promotes understanding of multiple product and service groups and their interdependencies.Monitors regulatory and environmental issues and considerations.Technical Excellence:  Knowledge of a given technology and various application methods; ability to develop and provide solutions to significant technical challenges.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.Influencing Through Expertise:  Knowledge of effective influencing tactics and strategies; ability to use these to deepen own expertise and impact or challenge decisions within and outside own organization.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.Team Management:  Knowledge of effective team building techniques; ability to form and manage effective teams based on projects.Requirement Analysis:  Knowledge of tools, methods, and techniques of requirement analysis; ability to elicit, analyze and record required business functionality and non-functionality requirements to ensure the success of a system or software development project.Plays an active or leading role in recording and storing requirement documents in various forms.Ensures the successful completion of all major activities, tasks and deliverables pertaining to the requirement analysis stage.Supervises the advanced use of requirements analysis tools and services, including prototyping and use cases.Produces detailed functional and information requirements models and documentation.Trains others on requirements walkthroughs and quality reviews.Utilizes automated diagramming tools to ensure traceability of requirements.Troubleshooting Technical Problems:  Knowledge of troubleshooting approaches, tools and techniques; ability to anticipate, detect and resolve technical problems in a manufacturing environment.Product Design and Development:  Knowledge of product features; ability to design, build, and develop a new product, technology, or service from concept through to production.Develops organizational standards and processes in order to maximize complex product services' efficiency and effectiveness.Creates and introduces new techniques that expedite or simplify the development process.Supervises the management of multiple and diverse types of products or services.Develops proof-of-concept exercises to prove or disprove validity of proposed products.Advises on the appropriate solutions to complex product design and development problems.Designs working prototypes of a variety of proposed products or services.

What Will Set You Apart (Preferred Qualifications):

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Mechanical, Chemical, Materials Science, or a related field.Previous experience with rubber components with working knowledge on molding processes.Experience with Lean 6 Sigma and PPAP methodologies.Strong analytical skills, including proficiency in data analysis and statistics.Ability to manage and lead multiple projects simultaneously and make sound priority decisions.Working knowledge of Instron and/or MTS hydraulic test machines.Hands-on individual with a passion for working in a lab environment.Strong mechanical aptitude with proficiency in data acquisition systems.Proficiency in Pro/Engineer or Creo and FEA analysis.Proficiency in Microsoft Project or other project planning tools.Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification.

What You Will Get:

Through it all, we are one team – creating and delivering world-class components and solutions superior to the competition.  Learn more about the Caterpillar Experience.

About Caterpillar:

Caterpillar Inc. is the world’s leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, off-highway diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines and diesel-electric locomotives. For nearly 100 years, we’ve been helping customers build a better, more sustainable world and are committed and contributing to a reduced-carbon future. Our innovative products and services, backed by our global dealer network, provide exceptional value that helps customers succeed.

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Summary Pay Range:

$126,000.00 - $189,000.00

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:

Subject to plan eligibility, terms, and guidelines. This is a summary list of benefits.

Medical, dental, and vision benefits*

Paid time off plan (Vacation, Holidays, Volunteer, etc.)*

401(k) savings plans*

Health Savings Account (HSA)*

Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)*

Health Lifestyle Programs*

Employee Assistance Program*

Voluntary Benefits and Employee Discounts*

Career Development*

Incentive bonus*

Disability benefits

Life Insurance

Parental leave

Adoption benefits

Tuition Reimbursement

       

* These benefits also apply to part-time employees

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 20, 2025 - March 5, 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.

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