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.
Role Definition
Assists Program Manager with the management of complex projects within a corporate program.
Responsibilities
Tracking progress according to program schedules and goals; developing solutions to program problems.
Participating in the preparations of proposals, plans, and program specifications.
Developing the project scope documents, project timetables and other documents that would be provided to Project Managers.
Monitoring the scheduling, budget, and performance of company programs.
Degree Requirement
Degree or equivalent experience desired
Skill Descriptors
**Business Acumen: **Knowledge of business concepts, tools, and processes that are needed for making sound decisions in the context of the company's business; ability to apply this knowledge appropriately to diverse situations.
Level Working Knowledge:
Comments on the organization's business model and financial goals.
Communicates key considerations for business decision making process.
Cites examples of types of information needed to make sound business decisions.
Participates in business task to get things done in own unit or area.
Caters to key stakeholders and their priorities.
**Planning: Tactical, Strategic: **Knowledge of effective planning techniques and ability to contribute to operational (short term), tactical (1-2 years) and strategic (3-5 years) planning in support of the overall business plan.
Level Working Knowledge:
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.
**Process Management: **Knowledge of business process improvement tools and techniques; ability to understand, monitor, update, control, or enhance existing business or work processes.
Level Working Knowledge:
Employs process flows, cycle time, process time and waste concepts as appropriate.
Walks through steps, decisions, measurements, dependencies and hand-offs for a specific process.
Creates process flow or work flow diagrams.
Documents types of process decisions and potential impact of each decision.
Identifies and monitors common process bottlenecks.
**Collaborating: **Knowledge of collaborative techniques; ability to work with a variety of individuals and groups in a constructive and collaborative manner.
Level Working Knowledge:
Demonstrates experience participating in productive collaborative processes.
Under guidance, initiates collaborative meetings.
Assists in communicating shared goals with diverse groups and parties.
Helps promote collaboration across generations, functions, regions, and levels.
Helps solve business problems and meet business goals through collaborative processes.
**Effective Communications: **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.
Level Working Knowledge:
Delivers helpful feedback that focuses on behaviors without offending the recipient.
Listens to feedback without defensiveness and uses it for own communication effectiveness.
Makes oral presentations and writes reports needed for own work.
Avoids technical jargon when inappropriate.
Looks for and considers non-verbal cues from individuals and groups.
**Problem Solving: **Knowledge of approaches, tools, techniques for recognizing, anticipating, and resolving organizational, operational or process problems; ability to apply knowledge of problem solving appropriately to diverse situations.
Level Working Knowledge:
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.
**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.
Level Working Knowledge:
Provides input for Gantt or PERT charts or their equivalent to track project progress and status.
Under guidance, plans and estimates simple projects.
Assists in detailed project plans including cost, schedule, and resource requirements.
Obtains information from stakeholders during the planning stage of a project.
Produces standard project status reports.
**Data Gathering and Reporting: **Knowledge of tools, techniques and processes for gathering and reporting data; ability to practice them in a particular department or division of a company.
Level Working Knowledge:
Detects and summarizes patterns in data and findings by producing simple reports.
Assesses common problems and obstacles surrounding data-gathering.
Customizes data fields to meet clients' needs.
Interprets and explains results of a data-gathering initiative.
Participates in projects to gather data for needs analysis.
This Job Description is intended as a general guide to the job duties for this position and is intended for the purpose of establishing the specific salary grade. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as an exhaustive summary of all responsibilities, duties and effort required of employees assigned to this job. At the discretion of management, this description may be changed at any time to address the evolving needs of the organization. It is expressly not intended to be a comprehensive list of “essential job functions” as that term is defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Posting Dates:
May 4, 2026 - May 30, 2026
Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants of any age are encouraged to apply
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