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.

About EPD

Caterpillar's Electric Power Division (EPD) offers integrated solutions, parts, and services to meet the needs of our various commercial and industrial electric power customers. EPD supports a wide range of customer applications across the globe, including providing back-up power to hospitals, providing emergency power when natural disasters strike, and supporting critical infrastructure for data centers, municipalities, and more. With a rich history of more than 95 years in the electric power business, our team has world-class expertise and a proven ability to adapt to changing demands. We’re committed to providing sustainable and reliable solutions to our customers. Join our team to help build a better, more sustainable world for future generations!

The Electric Power Division currently has an opening for a Engineering Manager in the North Americas Diesel Solutions Engineering Team located in Griffin, GA. As an Engineering Manager, you will have responsibility for leading a team of engineers working on project-based engineering designs for power system solutions. You will have prime product ownership. Coordinating delivery of designs with Mechanical and Electrical systems teams to deliver complex integrated solutions. You will work directly with Dealers, End Customers, Sales and other cross functional organizations to ensure customer specifications are understood and met with designs from broader engineering team. Keys to success in this role are in the ability to manage project plans, effectively communicate with process partners, and escalate issues as needed. You will manage the planning and delivery of projects, continually learn, and stay up to date on innovative technologies, mentor and coach team members, and deepen your professional network.

What you will do:

• Lead global teams in the design of new products, processes, components, and systems

• Provide technical guidance on product needs, analysis, and initiation of new ideas

• Communicate results to global customers, suppliers, team members, and representatives from other business units

• Complete projects on time and on cost

• Acknowledge and raise customer’s and management’s awareness of trade-offs between time, resources, and quality

• Direct supervision of technical salaried and management personnel

• Manage budget for engineering team

What you will have:

Degree Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in an accredited Mechanical, Agricultural Engineering or Engineering Technology

Decision Making and Critical Thinking: Knowledge of the decision-making process and associated tools and techniques; ability to accurately analyze

situations and reach productive decisions based on informed judgment.

Level Extensive Experience:

• Differentiates assumptions, perspectives, and historical frameworks.

• Evaluates past decisions for insights to improve decision-making process.

• Assesses and validates decision options and points and predicts their potential impact.

• Advises others in analyzing and synthesizing relevant data and assessing alternatives.

• Uses effective decision-making approaches such as consultative, command, or consensus.

• Ensures that assumptions and received wisdom are objectively analyzed in decisions.

Effective Communications: Experience developing good communication and network, which enables to obtain the resources and cooperation needed to remove roadblocks, ensuring success of the team.

Voice of the team in meetings with multiple levels of management and with the customer.

Level Extensive Experience:

• 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.

Technical Excellence: Knowledge in balance of plant, engine or genset design, design of heavy structures, cooling systems, exhaust systems, enclosures, electrical distribution, electrical communication, or other related areas.

Knowledge and experience with building and genset codes (UL, NEC, IBC, FAS, CSA, OGS, etc).

Level Extensive Experience:

• 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.

Managing People: : Working with people: facilitating cooperation and collaboration, clearly communicating project requirements and tasks while utilizing input from the team, translating information from the customer, management, and fellow team members.

Level Extensive Experience:

• Anticipates and manages difficult interpersonal situations and conflicts; resolves them to mutual satisfaction.

• Consults within the team; seeks inputs from subordinates and considers all views while making decisions.

• Implements coaching and mentoring programs to ensure the holistic development of employees.

• Monitors employee morale and satisfaction; recognizes employee contributions and achievements.

• Regularly reviews employee performance and provides constructive feedback.

• Works collaboratively with people from diverse backgrounds; understands their needs and perspectives.

Interpersonal, leadership, and strong communication skills are required for this position. Ever increasing skills in the role-based competencies of Managing Vision & Purpose, Decision making, and Negotiation are required.

Additional Information:

• Location of this position is in Griffin, GA

• Relocation assistance is available for this position

• This position may require up to 25% travel.

• Sponsorship is not offered for this position

Our goal at Caterpillar is for you to have a rewarding career. 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. #LI

Relocation is available for this position.

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:

September 10, 2024 - September 24, 2024

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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