Career Area:
Engineering
Job Description:
Your Work Shapes the World at Caterpillar Inc.
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Caterpillar’s Resource Industries Division is currently seeking a Bucket Platform Engineer for its Bodies & Buckets Product Value Stream. In this role you will provide technical leadership, project/program prioritization, quality improvement, and requirements for buckets on large wheel loader (LWL) and hard rock vehicle (HRV) buckets in product / process design. You will work closely with engineering design teams, value chain teams, and product value streams to gather and provide requirements to ensure appropriateness of design to achieve requirements. You will also manage the portfolio of buckets across the LWL and HRV products to ensure alignment with product value stream and customer needs. You will continually learn and stay abreast of innovative technology, mentor and coach engineers on new technologies for buckets and deepen your professional knowledge and network.
Responsibilities
- Develop project scope/requirements to address business challenges and opportunities.
- Coordinating resources across sales and marketing, product development groups, value chain and manufacturing.
- Overseeing project progress, costs & quality; communicating status with stakeholders and participating functional areas; addressing and resolving problems.
- Provide technical guidance to value chain and design teams
- Prioritize projects and direct project staffing; motivating and developing project team and team members.
- Management of product portfolio for related product value streams
- Requires a degree in an accredited Engineering, Computer Science, or Materials Science curriculum.
Degree Requirement
Degree required (accredited Engineering, Computer Science, or Materials Science curriculum)
Skill Descriptors
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.
Level Extensive Experience:
- Oversees development activities for multiple products or product lines.
- Advises colleagues on implementation and operational considerations.
- Coaches others on key factors that differentiate offerings from that of competition.
- Develops procedures for product planning, development, and delivery cycles.
- Promotes understanding of multiple product and service groups and their interdependencies.
- Monitors regulatory and environmental issues and considerations.
Technical Excellence: Knowledge of a given technology and various application methods; ability to develop and provide solutions to significant technical challenges.
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.
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.
Level Extensive Experience:
- Communicates complex ideas and concepts in a clear and concise manner so that others can understand.
- Exhibits depth and breadth of knowledge, skill, and experience in the relevant field.
- Provides relevant, timely and objective subject matter/process expertise and key insight regarding multiple client business areas and affiliated fields.
- Provides others with information, opportunities, or resources to develop their skills in the area of expertise.
- Discards examples of persuasive arguments lacking evidentiary support or impact.
- Coaches others to enhance their proficiency regarding the tenets, practices, and examples of the 'trusted advisor' credential.
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 Expert:
- Champions organization's project management methodology, tools, and techniques.
- Manages multiple high-risk, high-cost projects involving multiple stakeholders.
- Coaches others in open communication among project stakeholders.
- Monitors major projects for critical path and actual status versus planned.
- Consults on project planning and management of high-risk, high-impact projects.
- Monitors industry for fresh approaches and tools for project management.
Team Management: Knowledge of effective team building techniques; ability to form and manage effective teams.
Level Expert:
- Manages conflict and competition between teams and across organizational lines.
- Fosters a collaborative work spirit across the organization.
- Monitors industry for fresh approaches to team management.
- Serves as a leader in organization-wide initiatives that require cross-functional teams.
- Coaches team leaders on issues, problems, and solution methods.
- Creates an environment where cross-functional teams flourish.
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.
Level Extensive Experience:
- Plays an active or leading role in recording and storing requirement documents in various forms.
- Ensures the successful completion of all major activities, tasks and deliverables pertaining to the requirement analysis stage.
- Supervises the advanced use of requirements analysis tools and services, including prototyping and use cases.
- Produces detailed functional and information requirements models and documentation.
- Trains others on requirements walkthroughs and quality reviews.
- Utilizes automated diagramming tools to ensure traceability of requirements.
Troubleshooting Technical Problems: Knowledge of troubleshooting approaches, tools and techniques; ability to anticipate, detect and resolve technical problems in a manufacturing environment.
Level Extensive Experience:
- Evaluates business impact of failure and the criticality and timing of needed resolution.
- Resolves difficult or high-impact equipment and systems problems.
- Monitors machine performance and history; addresses excessive maintenance or repair needs.
- Coaches others how to resolve integration or communications problems in multi-vendor environment.
- Applies specific techniques for isolating a problem and defining resolution approach.
- Uses advanced diagnostic techniques and tools for unusual or performance-related problems.
Product Design and Development: Knowledge of product features; ability to design, build, and develop a new product, technology, or service from concept through to production.
Level Expert:
- Leads in designing and implementing new production and distribution methods.
- Advocates the development of new technologies and tools for product design and development.
- Leads cross-functional teams assembled for the purpose of product design and development.
- Develops organizational best practices for the management of product design and development.
- Establishes new product development strategies and processes for the organization.
- Predicts future trends of product design and development.
Posting Dates:
March 18, 2025 - March 27, 2025
Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EEO).
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