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Senior Engineering Project Team Leader

Caterpillar Inc. · Mossville, IL · 2 days ago
Engineering$148k–$222k/yrFull-time

About the role

We are seeking a Senior Engineering Project Team Leader to manage multiple or complex engineering projects involving multiple functions, organizations, products, or value chains. This person will own the system-level technical requirements and architecture for their assigned engine platform or subsystem, serve as the primary technical interface between software, hardware, validation, applications, and product groups, lead issue resolution for system integration problems, field issues, and product performance gaps, guide CRMs, design decisions, and technical studies, ensuring changes align with system intent and program goals, support new product introductions (NPI), validation planning, and release readiness from a system perspective, mentor system engineers, and contribute to technical strategy, roadmap planning, and risk management within the Gas Engine Systems portfolio.

Responsibilities

  • Own the system-level technical requirements and architecture for their assigned engine platform or subsystem
  • Serve as the primary technical interface between software, hardware, validation, applications, and product groups
  • Lead issue resolution for system integration problems, field issues, and product performance gaps
  • Guide CRMs, design decisions, and technical studies, ensuring changes align with system intent and program goals
  • Support new product introductions (NPI), validation planning, and release readiness from a system perspective
  • Mentor system engineers and contribute to technical strategy, roadmap planning, and risk management within the Gas Engine Systems portfolio

Requirements

  • Degree required; an engineering degree is preferred, ideally in mechanical or electrical engineering
  • 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
  • Requirements 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
  • Troubleshooting Technical Problems: Knowledge of troubleshooting approaches, tools and techniques; ability to anticipate, detect and resolve technical problems in a manufacturing or product development environment

Qualifications

  • Extensive experience communicating complex ideas and concepts in a clear and concise manner so that others can understand
  • Extensive experience supervising the advanced use of requirements analysis tools and services, including prototyping and use cases
  • Extensive experience producing detailed functional and information requirements models and documentation
  • Extensive experience training others on requirements walkthroughs and quality reviews
  • Extensive experience utilizing automated diagramming tools to ensure traceability of requirements
  • Extensive experience evaluating business impact of failure and the criticality and timing of needed resolution
  • Extensive experience resolving difficult or high-impact equipment and systems problems
  • Extensive experience monitoring machine performance and history; addressing excessive maintenance or repair needs
  • Extensive experience coaching others how to resolve integration or communications problems in multi-vendor environment
  • Extensive experience applying specific techniques for isolating a problem and defining resolution approach
  • Extensive experience using advanced diagnostic techniques and tools for unusual or performance-related problems

Skills

  • Effective influencing tactics and strategies
  • Requirement analysis tools and techniques
  • Troubleshooting approaches and techniques

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

Pay

$147,760.00 - $221,640.00

Schedule

N/A

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