NPI Aftermarket Enhancements Team Leader
Caterpillar

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:

Manages multiple or complex engineering projects involving multiple function teams.

As an Aftermarket NPI Team Lead you will hold responsibility for leading multiple projects in the vision space that includes various functional teams.

This role also requires effective communication with not only their team members, but with Stakeholders, Customers, and Sales counterparts.

Skills in Project Management, NPI Process, and exposure to Electrical Components are beneficial.

What You Will Do:

• Coordinating with the Commercial, Engineering, Machine Health, Detect App, and various other resource partners to manage resources for each deliverable within the project(s).
• Overseeing project progress and costs; communicating status with stakeholders and participating functional areas; addressing and resolving problems.
• Influencing project staffing; motivating and developing project team and team members.
• Communicating with Stakeholders and managing expectations; ensuring effective use of project controls and reporting mechanisms.

Education Requirement:

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

What Skills You Will Have:

Planning: Tactical, Strategic:
• Contributes to short-term operational plans.
• Anticipates and adapts to plan changes.
• Monitors progress of work against plan as required to meet objectives.
• Reports variances and makes agreed-upon corrections.
• Under guidance, develops tactical plan for own direct responsibility.

Products and Services:
• Obtains information about product and service linkages with other products and services elsewhere in organization.
• Researches the target market and how the product and services are sold and delivered.
• Explains current status, delivery alternatives and announced updates to products and services.
• Summarizes key features of major products or services in own unit.
• Assesses own unit's product alternatives, costs, and pricing.

Quality Management:
• Explains the purpose and limitations of quality management.
• Accesses organizational resources that enable quality management.
• Defines quality management concepts.
• Cites examples of organizational quality management initiatives.

Effective Communications:
• Reviews others' writing or presentations and provides feedback and coaching.
• Adapts documents and presentations for the intended audience.
• Demonstrates both empathy and assertiveness when communicating a need or defending a position.
• Communicates well downward, upward, and outward.
• Employs appropriate methods of persuasion when soliciting agreement.
• Maintains focus on the topic at hand.

Problem Solving:
• Identifies and documents specific problems and resolution alternatives.
• Examines a specific problem and understands the perspective of each involved stakeholder.
• Develops alternative techniques for assessing accuracy and relevance of information.
• Helps to analyze risks and benefits of alternative approaches and obtain decision on resolution.
• Uses fact-finding techniques and diagnostic tools to identify problems.

Customer Service Management:
• Facilitates the resolution of customer problems, issues, or concerns.
• Monitors and reports on delivery of what was promised.
• Participates in a team that provides direct customer service.
• Ensures identification of customer needs and priorities.
• Analyzes problem trends and takes steps to avoid recurrence.

Program Management:
• Assists in detailed project plans including cost, schedule, and resource requirements.
• Participates in planning, estimating, and executing a set of projects.
• Follows standard criteria to track project progress and status to ensure they are in line with program objectives.
• Monitors standard project status reports.
• Coordinates the necessary resources for managing efficient and effective projects within the program.

Design for Manufacturability (DFM):
• Discusses the use cases, benefits, and importance of DFM.
• Explains the key DFM design principles.
• Lists the major tools and technologies used for implementing DFM methodologies.
• Locates the DFM guidelines for various types of manufacturing processes within the organization.

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

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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 .

For more information, visit caterpillar.com. To connect with us on social media, visit caterpillar.com/social-media

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Posting Dates:
November 5, 2024 - November 19, 2024
Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen.

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