Facilities Project Electrical Engineer – Sanford Advanced Manufacturing

Caterpillar•Sanford, NC

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Caterpillar is hiring a Facilities Project Electrical Engineer to lead the electrical facilities engineering workstream for a new advanced manufacturing campus in Sanford, North Carolina. The role will guide work from initial requirements and design coordination through supplier selection, construction, installation, system integration, commissioning, startup, issue resolution, and handoff to operations. The engineer will lead consultants, engineering design firms, and contractors; coordinate internal and external specialists; and ensure that deliverables meet Caterpillar requirements and support a safe, complete, production-ready facility. The position coordinates with Manufacturing, Legal, Accounting, Purchasing, Information Technology, Safety, and other partners to resolve dependencies and maintain project progress. It provides leadership with clear updates on progress, risks, decisions, and system integration. The electrical focus includes designing, implementing, and operating facility electrical infrastructure such as power distribution, automation controls, and equipment integration, while supporting capacity planning, protection systems, energy management, advanced metering, digital facility solutions, commissioning, startup, maintenance, and troubleshooting. The role is onsite in Sanford, North Carolina, five days per week, with possible work from temporary offices during the transition to the new facility. Travel of 50–75% may be required at certain points in the project. The selected candidate should have schedule flexibility to meet project requirements. Domestic U.S. relocation is available; visa sponsorship is not available.

Requirements

Working knowledge of relevant electrical, controls, and manufacturing interfaces.
Ability to evaluate external engineering work, ask informed questions, and make sound approval decisions.
Ability to lead engineering work across 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.
Selected candidate should have schedule flexibility to meet project requirements.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor’s degree in engineering.
Demonstrated experience supporting facilities, building systems, or industrial engineering projects.
Demonstrated executive-level written and verbal communication skills, including translating complex engineering and integration topics into clear progress updates, risks, decisions, and recommended actions for leadership.
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 within facilities with high standards related to overall 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; confirm accuracy, constructibility, compliance, and alignment 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 evolving 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, decisions, emerging risks, cross-functional dependencies, and actions needed to support startup.
Lead the design, implementation, and operation of facility electrical infrastructure, including power distribution, automation controls, and equipment integration.
Drive electrical capacity planning, protection systems, energy management, advanced metering, and digital facility solutions to support operational and future growth needs.
Oversee commissioning, startup, maintenance, and troubleshooting to ensure safe, reliable, and efficient facility performance.