Engineering Project Team Leader

Caterpillar Inc.•Wamego, KS

2d•$128,470 - $192,710•Onsite

About The Position

Caterpillar’s EXD team is hiring an Engineering Project Team Leader in Wamego, Kansas. The role designs, develops, builds, and implements new excavator worktools, worktool components, and technologies, while providing leadership to technical team members across multiple projects. The position researches worktool opportunities and competitive products, and coordinates concept development, design, prototype build, testing, and analysis. It also identifies machine-integration opportunities from a worktool perspective to improve the operator experience and works with cross-functional teams to implement them. The role develops functional requirements from customer input and translates them into detailed designs, leads technical and customer-facing trade-off discussions, and creates project proposals, cost estimates, timelines, and technical reports. It prioritizes technology projects and balances team workloads while improving team-level processes and methods. This position is based at Caterpillar’s Wamego, Kansas site and requires working onsite five days per week, Monday through Friday. Travel is 20%, including international travel. Domestic relocation assistance and visa sponsorship are not available. The posted pay range is $128,470 to $192,710. Employment offers are conditioned on successful completion of a drug screen.

Requirements

Degree in an accredited Engineering, Computer Science, or Materials Science curriculum.
Knowledge of analytical techniques and tools, including the ability to determine root causes and create alternative solutions.
Ability to communicate effectively and accurately convey, receive, and interpret ideas, information, and needs.
Ability to manage multiple concurrent objectives, projects, groups, or activities and prioritize time effectively.
Knowledge of product features and ability to design, build, and develop products, technologies, or services from concept through production.

Nice To Haves

Strong intellectual curiosity and a flexible mindset.
Vertically integrated engineering skillset spanning concept-to-production product development.
Ability to analyze and develop worktools considering the excavator as a whole and the total customer solution.
Good listening and communication skills and ability to work across regions and functional areas.
Understanding of customer challenges across applications and use cases and ability to translate them into technical needs for best-in-class products.

Responsibilities

Research new worktool opportunities and competitive products.
Organize, coordinate, and execute concepting, design, prototype building, testing, and analysis for excavator worktools.
Identify machine-integration opportunities from a worktool perspective to improve the operator experience and work with cross-functional teams to implement them.
Develop and document functional requirements based on customer input and translate them into detailed designs.
Lead trade-off discussions with technical and customer-facing teams to identify the best customer solution.
Lead creation of project proposals, cost estimates, project timelines, and technical reports.
Prioritize new technology projects based on risk, resource capabilities, and financial outcomes.
Review and balance workload among technical team members.
Develop concepting process and method improvements to increase team efficiency and effectiveness.
Provide leadership to the technical team across multiple projects.