Facilities Project Civil Engineer – Sanford Advanced Manufacturing

Caterpillar•Sanford, NC

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Caterpillar is developing a new advanced manufacturing campus in Sanford, North Carolina, to expand production capacity for compact track loaders and telehandlers. The facility is expected to use automation, robotics, digital production systems, and integrated logistics capabilities to support safety, quality, and operational performance. The Facilities Project Civil Engineer will manage the civil facilities engineering workstream for the new facility, from initial requirements and design coordination through supplier selection, construction, installation, system integration, commissioning, startup, issue resolution, and handoff to operations. The role leads consultants, engineering design firms, contractors, and other specialists, ensuring project deliverables meet Caterpillar requirements and result in a safe, complete, production-ready facility. The engineer will coordinate with internal partners including Manufacturing, Legal, Accounting, Purchasing, Information Technology, and Safety, and provide leadership with clear updates on progress, risks, decisions, and system integration. The civil engineering focus includes developing site and facility infrastructure, civil systems, utilities, drainage, transportation access, and building interfaces. The role also coordinates utility networks, security systems, telecommunications, site lighting, digital technologies, and future expansion planning, and drives permitting, construction execution, commissioning, and issue resolution to ensure operational readiness. The position is onsite five days per week in Sanford, North Carolina. Work locations may flex between temporary offices during the transition to the new facility. Travel of 50–75% may be required at certain times during construction planning, supplier reviews, equipment installation, commissioning, startup, and production ramp-up. The selected candidate should have schedule flexibility to meet project requirements. Domestic U.S. relocation is available; visa sponsorship is not available. The salary range is $128,470–$192,710. Employment offers are conditioned on successful completion of a drug screen.

Requirements

Working knowledge of relevant civil, structural, utility, and manufacturing interfaces.
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 that support 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 the ability to drive complete, sustainable solutions across complex, connected, multi-vendor systems.
Schedule flexibility to meet project requirements.
Ability to work onsite five days per week in Sanford, North Carolina, and travel as required; travel of 50–75% may be required at certain times.

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 the ability to translate 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, confirming accuracy, constructibility, compliance, and alignment with operational needs.
Manage project scope, schedules, estimates, risks, changes, action items, commissioning plans, and operational readiness.
Coordinate decisions and deliverables among 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 evolving manufacturing needs into facility designs, technical standards, utility strategies, acceptance criteria, and scalable solutions.
Integrate 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 acceptance testing, system energization, integrated systems testing, commissioning, turnover, and startup.
Provide leadership with concise verbal and written updates on integration progress, decisions, 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 consultants, engineering design firms, contractors, internal and external specialists, and cross-functional partners throughout the project lifecycle.