**Career Area:** Engineering **Job Description:** **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. **About IPSD** Caterpillar’s Industrial Power Systems Division (IPSD) designs, tests and manufactures 0.5 to 18L engines that not only power Caterpillar machines, but also power over 5000 other applications including Marine, Petroleum, Industrial Applications, Electric Generators, and Locomotives. Caterpillar’s company strategy includes sustainability as one of four focus areas and IPSD is engaged and actively preparing green energy solutions for the future **Job Summary** Caterpillar’s 11-18L Engine Platform Team, within IPSD-L, is focused on delivery industry leading engine systems for Caterpillar and Third-Party customers through the Cat and Perkins Brands. We enable customer success by delivering products that meet or exceed expectations for performance, value, and durability within our portfolio of engines. As an **Engineering Project Team Leader** in our team, you will be accountable for leading and delivering projects to support our 11L – 18L engine platforms. You will provide technical, programming, strategic, and business leadership. You will both guide our team of engineers and lead the implementation of NPI, CPI, NSI, parts growth, and cost reduction projects supporting multiple applications in various machine and commercial markets in both the Cat and Perkins Brands. **What You Will Do:** + Lead and Deliver New Product Introduction (NPI), New Source Introduction (NSI), New Technology Introduction (NTI), Continuous Product Improvement (CPI), and Cost Reduction/Localization Projects. + Negotiate and manage technical requirements, and communicate with stakeholders, team members, and customer facing teams. + Manage and deliver projects which achieve cost targets, reliability goals, and program timelines + Deliver value to our customers through the design and development of products that meet their cost, performance, durability, and quality needs + Foster collaboration both within our team and with our process partners including L3 teams, test and validation partners and customer faces organizations. + Champion process improvements within the team to enhance quality, reduce costs, and increase velocity through Continuous Product Improvement (CPI) and New Technology Introduction (NTI) programs for current products. + Communicate results to global customers, process partners, team members, and other business units. + Provide coaching and technical guidance to our engineering community. **Degree Requirement** Bachelor’s degree in mechanical or related engineering with strong engine experience **What You Will Have:** **Products and Services** : Knowledge of major products and services and product and service groups; ability to apply knowledge of product and service appropriately to diverse situations. Level Extensive Experience: + Oversee development activities for multiple products or product lines + Advises colleagues on implementation and operational considerations + Coaches’ others on key factors that differentiate offerings from that of competition + Develops procedures for product planning, development, and delivery cycles. + Promotes understanding of multiple product and service groups and their interdependence. + Monitors regulatory and environmental issues and considerations. **Technical Excellence** : Knowledge of a given technology and various application methods; ability to develop and provide solutions to significant technical challenges. Level Extensive Experience: + Advise others on the assessment and provision of all technical solutions. + Engages appropriate subject matter resources to effectively resolve technical issues. + Mentors’ others to enhance their technical competence and its application to achieve more effective technical solutions. + Coaches’ others in promoting, defining, analyzing, and providing superior technical solutions to business problems. + Provides effective solutions to moderate technical challenges through strong technical competence, effectively examining implications of events and issues. + Assumes accountability for personal technical performance and holds others responsible for theirs. **Influencing Through Expertise** : Knowledge of effective influencing tactics and strategies; ability to use these to deepen your own expertise and impact or challenge decisions within and outside own organization. Level Extensive Experience: + Communicates complex ideas and concepts in a clear and concise manner so that others can understand. + Exhibits depth and breadth of knowledge, skill, and experience in the relevant field. + Provides relevant, timely and objective subject matter/process expertise and key insight regarding multiple client business areas and affiliated fields. + Provides others with information, opportunities, or resources to develop their skills in the area of expertise. + Discards examples of persuasive arguments lacking evidentiary support or impact. + Coaches others to enhance their proficiency regarding the tenets, practices, and examples of the 'trusted advisor' credential. **Project Management** : Knowledge of effective project management strategies and tactics; ability to plan, organize, monitor, and control projects, ensuring efficient utilization of technical and administrative resources to achieve project objectives. Level Expert: + Champions organization's project management methodology, tools, and techniques. + Manages multiple high-risk, high-cost projects involving multiple stakeholders. + Coaches others in open communication among project stakeholders. + Monitors major projects for critical path and actual status versus planned. + Consults on project planning and management of high-risk, high-impact projects. + Monitors industry for fresh approaches and tools for project management. **Team Management:** Knowledge of effective team building techniques; ability to form and manage effective teams. Level Extensive Experience: + Brings projects to closure and ensures capture of what can be learned from the experience. + Leads the definition of team mission and objectives for a variety of teams. + Employs appropriate techniques for maintaining team enthusiasm, energy, and focus. + Ensures that team members are on board, unified, and moving in the same direction. + Communicates both within the team and to stakeholders. + Learns and utilizes special talents and work styles of team members. **Product Design and Development** : Knowledge of product features; ability to design, build, and develop a new product, technology, or service from concept through to production. Level Extensive Experience: + Develops organizational standards and processes to maximize complex product services' efficiency and effectiveness. + Creates and introduces new techniques that expedite or simplify the development process. + Supervises the management of multiple and diverse types of products or services. + Develops proof-of-concept exercises to prove or disprove validity of proposed products. + Advises on the appropriate solutions to complex product design and development problems. + Designs working prototypes of a variety of proposed products or services. **Additional Information:** + This position is in Mossville IL, Tech Center Building E + This position is on-site 5 days a week. + This position offers domestic relocation assistance + This position does not have sponsorship approved. + This position may require up to 10% travel EEO/AA Employer. All qualified individuals - Including minorities, females, veterans, and individuals with disabilities - are encouraged to apply. This employer is not currently hiring foreign national applicants that require or will require sponsorship tied to specific employer, such as H, L, TN, F, J, E, O. As a global company, Caterpillar offers many job opportunities outside of the U.S. which can be found through our employment website at www.caterpillar.com/careers **Summary Pay Range:** $126,000.00 - $189,000.00 Compensation and benefits offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, job level, market location, job-related knowledge, skills, individual performance and experience. Please note that salary is only one component of total compensation at Caterpillar. **Benefits:** Subject to plan eligibility, terms, and guidelines. This is a summary list of benefits. + Medical, dental, and vision benefits* + Paid time off plan (Vacation, Holidays, Volunteer, etc.)* + 401(k) savings plans* + Health Savings Account (HSA)* + Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)* + Health Lifestyle Programs* + Employee Assistance Program* + Voluntary Benefits and Employee Discounts* + Career Development* + Incentive bonus* + Disability benefits + Life Insurance + Parental leave + Adoption benefits + Tuition Reimbursement * These benefits also apply to part-time employees Visa Sponsorship is not available for this position. This employer is not currently hiring foreign national applicants that require or will require sponsorship tied to a specific employer, such as, H, L, TN, F, J, E, O. As a global company, Caterpillar offers many job opportunities outside of the U.S which can be found through our employment website at www.caterpillar.com/careers. **Posting Dates:** May 16, 2025 - May 26, 2025 Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen. Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer, Including Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities. Not ready to apply? Join our Talent Community (http://flows.beamery.com/caterpillarinc/talcom) .