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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.
Job Summary:
As an Engineering Team Lead, you will be the Process Owner for analytics tools that leverage quality data to drive continuous improvements across the product value chain. You will lead innovative solutions through data analytics and further the use of dashboards within Product Development to improve quality and efficiency in engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, logistics and remanufacturing. You will lead a team that supports processes and tools utilized for Advanced Product and Process Planning (APQP). If you have a background in Engineering and a passion for leading innovative solutions through data analytics, this job is for you!
What You Will Do:
Top Skills ( From K203 Job Description)
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.
• 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.
Technical Excellence: Knowledge of a given technology and various application methods; ability to develop and provide solutions to significant technical challenges.
• 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.
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.
• Utilizes preferred tools, techniques and methods for estimating project cost and time.
• Plans, estimates, staffs, organizes and monitors significant projects.
• Identifies risks and vulnerabilities; creates contingency plans.
• Conducts regular and ad-hoc project reviews with project team, sponsors, and clients.
• Maintains open communication among project participants and interested parties.
• Communicates reporting requirements; creates monitoring and control mechanisms.
Team Management: Knowledge of effective team building techniques; ability to form and manage effective teams.
• Facilitates discussion of team goals, roles, needs, and responsibilities.
• Participates in defining the ground rules for individual and team responsibilities.
• Manages a team to the successful completion of a project or task.
• Recognizes the contribution of each and every team member publicly.
• Leads team meetings to review progress and performance, ensuring follow-up on previous decisions.
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.
• 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.
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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.
• Develops organizational standards and processes in order to maximize complex product services' efficiency and effectiveness.
• Creates and introduces new techniques that expedite or simplify the development process.
• Supervises the management of multiple and diverse types of products or services.
• Develops proof-of-concept exercises to prove or disprove validity of proposed products.
• Advises on the appropriate solutions to complex product design and development problems.
• Designs working prototypes of a variety of proposed products or services.
Education Requirement:
• Requires a degree in an accredited Engineering, Computer Science, or Operation Management curriculum.
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