Facilities Project Civil Engineer – Sanford Advanced Manufacturing

Caterpillar Inc.•Sanford, NC

2d•$128,470 - $192,710•Onsite

About The Position

Caterpillar is hiring a Facilities Project Civil Engineer to lead the civil facilities engineering workstream for a new advanced manufacturing campus in Sanford, North Carolina. The project will expand production capacity for compact track loaders and telehandlers and is expected to incorporate automation, robotics, digital production systems, and integrated logistics capabilities. The engineer will manage the workstream from requirements and design coordination through supplier selection, construction, installation, integration, commissioning, startup, issue resolution, and handoff to operations. The role leads consultants, engineering design firms, and contractors; coordinates internal and external specialists; and ensures deliverables meet Caterpillar requirements. It requires connecting civil engineering disciplines and manufacturing interfaces into a safe, complete, production-ready facility while coordinating with functions such as Manufacturing, Legal, Accounting, Purchasing, Information Technology, and Safety. The civil engineering focus includes site and facility infrastructure, civil systems, utilities, drainage, transportation access, building interfaces, utility networks, security systems, telecommunications, site lighting, digital technologies, and future expansion planning. The role is onsite five days per week in Sanford, with work locations potentially shifting between temporary offices during the transition to the new facility. Travel of 50–75% may be required at certain project stages. Schedule flexibility is expected to meet project requirements. U.S. domestic relocation is available; visa sponsorship is not available.

Requirements

Working knowledge of relevant civil, structural, utility, and manufacturing interfaces, with the ability to evaluate external engineering work, ask informed questions, and make sound approval decisions.
Ability to lead engineering work across multiple functional areas, external firms, contractors, and internal partners while managing technical dependencies and system integration.
Ability to evaluate developing technical and business information, assess alternatives, identify consequences, and recommend practical solutions supporting launch and long-term operations.
Ability to organize work into actionable steps, anticipate bottlenecks, align cross-discipline dependencies, and maintain focus on construction, commissioning, and production-readiness milestones.
Ability to align technical and business stakeholders, including internal functions, engineering partners, consultants, contractors, suppliers, utilities, and regulatory authorities.
Ability to understand internal customer requirements and respond with urgency, ownership, and practical solutions as the operation transitions from project delivery into production.
Strong knowledge of structured troubleshooting methods and ability to drive complete, sustainable solutions across complex, connected, multi-vendor systems.
Schedule flexibility to meet project requirements.
High percentage of travel, potentially 50–75%, may be required at certain stages.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor’s degree in engineering.
Demonstrated experience supporting facilities, building systems, or industrial engineering projects.
Executive-level written and verbal communication skills, including translating complex engineering and integration topics into clear leadership updates on progress, risks, decisions, and recommended actions.
Experience supporting an advanced manufacturing facility, plant startup, major expansion, or complex capital program from early design through operational handoff.
Professional Engineer (PE) licensure.
Experience with LEED requirements or certification.
Experience working in facilities with high standards for building conditions, environmental stewardship, safe work practices, and continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

Review, challenge, and approve technical drawings, specifications, calculations, design packages, and changes from external engineering partners, ensuring they are accurate, constructible, compliant, and aligned with operational needs.
Manage scope, schedules, estimates, risks, changes, action items, commissioning plans, and operational readiness.
Coordinate decisions and deliverables across internal functions, engineering partners, contractors, suppliers, utilities, and regulatory authorities.
Resolve issues through containment, root cause analysis, corrective action, testing, verification, and documented closure.
Translate manufacturing needs into facility designs, technical standards, utility strategies, acceptance criteria, and scalable solutions.
Integrate connected facility technologies, including building management systems, utility monitoring, advanced metering, sensors, automated controls, alarms, equipment connectivity, and condition-monitoring data.
Use building information modeling, digital coordination, system data, commissioning records, and readiness metrics to identify conflicts, guide decisions, and improve startup performance.
Coordinate planning and execution of acceptance testing, system energization, integrated systems testing, commissioning, turnover, and startup.
Provide leadership with concise verbal and written updates on integration progress, key decisions, emerging risks, cross-functional dependencies, and actions needed to support startup.
Lead development of site and facility infrastructure, including civil systems, utilities, drainage, transportation access, and building interfaces.
Coordinate utility networks, security systems, telecommunications, site lighting, digital technologies, and future expansion planning.
Drive permitting, construction execution, commissioning, and issue resolution to ensure operational readiness and successful project delivery.
Lead and coordinate consultants, engineering design firms, contractors, and internal and external specialists throughout the project lifecycle.