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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
Oversees the planning, organization and implementation of standard digital projects.
Responsibilities
• Managing the day-to-day activities of projects, including overseeing project responsibilities and schedules. Developing contingency plans for potential risks.
• Directing and motivating project team.
• Evaluating and managing deliverables to ensure that service expectations are achievable, developed, and met.
• Monitoring project results for significant deviations. Ensuring adherence to quality standards and processes.
Skill Descriptors
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 Basic Understanding:
• Explains tactical plan for own area.
• Defines concepts of short-term and long-term planning.
• Describes the planning process and planning cycle used in own area.
• Compares tactical to strategic planning.
Project Administration: Knowledge of project administration best practices and ability to use organizational strategies, practices and tools for administering projects.
Level Basic Understanding:
• Explains concepts of phase, activity and task.
• Provides examples of project data that is tracked.
• Identifies deliverables, resources and dependencies in project plans.
• Demonstrates a basic understanding of organizational project management practices and tools.
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 Basic Understanding:
• Explains characteristics and steps in an effective decision-making process.
• Identifies issues and communicates with others when a decision needs to be made.
• Names decision makers in own environment and cites examples of past decisions.
• Describes types of decisions incumbent may and may not make in own job or function.
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.
Implementation: Knowledge of how to run applications for organizations; ability to implement application software within an organization and help end-users perform specific tasks (ex: accounting or graphic design).
Level Working Knowledge:
• Tracks problems associated with the quality and effectiveness of application software.
• Researches the benefits and drawbacks of an organization's application software.
• Drafts application software usage for the department's needs.
• Provides instant support for end users of application software.
• Implements a specific application software under the supervision of management.
IT Project Control and Reporting: Knowledge of project control and reporting; ability to monitor the vital signs of an IT project while managing its progress and delivery schedule.
Level Working Knowledge:
• Tracks issues and potential problems to ensure maximum preparedness for IT projects.
• Uses Gantt and PERT/CPM charts to report IT project progress to management and clients.
• Revisits and reworks individual work plans to ensure intermediate deadlines are attainable.
• Conducts regular ad-hoc progress meetings with IT project teams.
• Tracks and reports on the progress made in an IT project team.
IT Project Management: Knowledge of project management; ability to plan, organize, monitor and control IT projects using appropriate technical resources.
Level Working Knowledge:
• Reviews current operations and IT projects based on business needs, financial and functional analyses.
• Distributes IT projects for team members.
• Assists senior colleagues in analyzing client requirement for IT projects.
• Creates and organizes IT schedules and plans for multiple projects.
• Documents IT demand analysis trends in a technical or business manner.
IT Standards, Procedures & Policies: Knowledge of Information Technology (IT) standards and policies; ability to utilize a variety of administrative skill sets and technical knowledge to manage organizational IT policies, standards, and procedures.
Level Working Knowledge:
• Participates in the design of organizational IT infrastructure and policies based on a business analysis.
• Assists senior colleagues in identifying critical issues in IT design processes and policies.
• Generates status reports for senior management to ensure the implementation of IT policies, standards and procedures.
• Executes IT projects or services based on predetermined IT procedures.
• Conducts performance reviews on specific technical applications or IT projects.
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.
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