Engineering Project Team Leader

Caterpillar Caterpillar · Industrial · Lafayette, IN

Engineering/Technology Project Team Leader for Caterpillar's Oil & Gas and Marine Division, responsible for providing technical solutions to dealers and customers, developing designs for customized engine/mechanical solutions, and supporting project specifications and quotes. The role involves communication, problem-solving, and staying current with industry and technology changes.

What you'd actually do

  1. Contribute to the identification, analysis, and resolution of needs and problems
  2. Develop concept and design of complex components, subsystems, and/or processes for customized engine/mechanical and package/generator set solutions
  3. Provide Project Specification review support for dealers and customer
  4. Provide Design-To-Order (DTO) quotes to dealers and internal customer
  5. Communicate technical information to dealers, customers, team members, suppliers, and other units

Skills

Required

  • 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.
  • Technical Excellence: Knowledge of a given technology and various application methods; ability to develop and provide solutions to significant technical challenges.
  • 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.
  • Effective Communications: Extensive understanding of effective communication concepts, tools and techniques; ability to effectively transmit, receive, and accurately interpret ideas, information, and needs through the application of appropriate communication behaviors.
  • Managing Multiple Priorities: Extensive knowledge of effective self-management practices; ability to manage multiple concurrent objectives, projects, groups, or activities, making effective judgments as to prioritizing and time allocation.
  • Project Management: Basic 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.

Nice to have

  • College or university degree in Engineering or Technology field with 6-8 plus years of experience, or equivalent experience of 10 plus years of progressively responsible job-related experience.
  • Demonstrated ability to work independently, communicate effectively and to influence others in the work group, dealer personnel and customers.
  • Demonstrated ability to work on larger scale, more complex assignments and provide direction to lower-level reps on project assignments.
  • Experience in custom quotations and/or Design To Order Engineering execution.

What the JD emphasized

  • Engineering or Technology field with 6-8 plus years of experience, or equivalent experience of 10 plus years of progressively responsible job-related experience
  • Demonstrated ability to work independently, communicate effectively and to influence others in the work group, dealer personnel and customers
  • Demonstrated ability to work on larger scale, more complex assignments and provide direction to lower-level reps on project assignments
  • Experience in custom quotations and/or Design To Order Engineering execution