Senior Project Coordinator
Caterpillar, Inc.
**Career Area:**
Strategy
**Compensation Grade:**
22
**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.
**Job Title:** Senior Project Coordinator
**Salary/Grade:** £39,423 - £49,000 per annum (depending on experience)
**Location** : Larne
**Benefits:**
+ 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
+ Up to 10% bonus
+ Contributory pension scheme - Caterpillar will double the employee's contribution up to 6%
+ Contributory share scheme - Caterpillar will match 50% of the employee's contribution.
+ Optional flexible benefits including access to health and dental care plans, EV car lease, holiday purchase.
**This position requires a 5-day-a-week schedule in the office.**
**About EPD**
Caterpillar's Electric Power Division (EPD) offers integrated solutions, parts, and services to meet the needs of our various commercial and industrial electric power customers. EPD supports a wide range of customer applications across the globe, including providing back-up power to hospitals, providing emergency power when natural disasters strike, and supporting critical infrastructure for data centres, municipalities, and more.
With a rich history of more than 95 years in the electric power business, our team has world-class expertise and a proven ability to adapt to changing demands. We’re committed to providing sustainable and reliable solutions to our customers.
We are looking for top talent to build and scale the next generation of technologies, products and services to help our customers build a better—more sustainable—world. We need self-motivated, intelligent and team-oriented individuals to make our plans a reality. Individuals with high emotional intelligence, humility and openness to discovery will thrive in the teams we are building. Join our team to help build a better, more sustainable world for future generations!
**The opportunity**
As a Senior Project Coordinator, you’ll partner with the Launch Manager to lead complex projects within a corporate program. You'll collaborate closely with Technical Sales and Project Management teams to gather critical information and ensure clear, consistent communication across all stakeholders.
**What you will do:**
+ Track progress according to program schedules and goals; develop solutions to program problems.
+ Participate in the preparations of proposals, plans, and program specifications.
+ Develop the project scope documents, project timetables and other documents that would be provided to Project Managers.
+ Monitor the scheduling, budget, and performance of company programs.
**What you have:**
Project Management - Extensive experience:
+ Project coordination or management experience
+ Utilizes preferred tools such as Microsoft Project Online and Excel, techniques and methods for estimating project cost and time.
+ Plans, estimates, staffs, organizes and monitors significant projects.
+ Identifies risks and vulnerabilities; creates contingency plans.
+ Conducts regular and ad-hoc project reviews with project team, sponsors, and clients.
+ Maintains open communication among project participants and interested parties.
+ Communicates reporting requirements; creates monitoring and control mechanisms.
Business Acumen - Working Knowledge:
+ Comments on the organization's business model and financial goals.
+ Communicates key considerations for business decision making process.
+ Cites examples of types of information needed to make sound business decisions.
+ Participates in business task to get things done in own unit or area.
+ Caters to key stakeholders and their priorities.
Planning: Tactical, Strategic - Level Extensive Experience:
+ Develops, refines, and communicates tactical plans for own responsibilities.
+ Provides the right level of detail as input for strategic plan development.
+ Demonstrates the value and necessity of linking tactical plans to overall strategic plan.
+ Ensures attention to the detail and dependencies of existing departmental-level plans.
+ Plans for allocation of resources in line with unit goals, technical and business objectives.
+ Ensures the planning process is integrated with the overall business plan.
Process Management: Working Knowledge
+ Employs process flows, cycle time, process time and waste concepts as appropriate.
+ Walks through steps, decisions, measurements, dependencies and hand-offs for a specific process.
+ Creates process flow or workflow diagrams.
+ Documents types of process decisions and potential impact of each decision.
+ Identifies and monitors common process bottlenecks.
Effective Communications: Working Knowledge
+ Delivers helpful feedback that focuses on behaviors without offending the recipient.
+ Listens to feedback without defensiveness and uses it for own communication effectiveness.
+ Makes oral presentations and writes reports needed for own work.
+ Avoids technical jargon when inappropriate.
+ Looks for and considers non-verbal cues from individuals and groups.
Data Gathering and Reporting - Working Knowledge:
+ Detects and summarizes patterns in data and findings by producing simple reports.
+ Assesses common problems and obstacles surrounding data-gathering.
+ Customizes data fields to meet clients' needs.
+ Interprets and explains results of a data-gathering initiative.
+ Participates in projects to gather data for needs analysis.
**Top candidates will also have:**
+ Ability to navigate ambiguity and proactively gather project-critical information
+ Manufacturing or product experience (gensets, enclosures, generators, engine).
**Additional information:**
+ Travel up to ~20% is possible
**About Caterpillar**
Caterpillar Inc. is the world’s leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, off-highway diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines and diesel-electric locomotives. For nearly 100 years, we’ve been helping customers build a better, more sustainable world and are committed and contributing to a reduced-carbon future. Our innovative products and services, backed by our global dealer network, provide exceptional value that helps customers succeed. #CaterpillarNI #LI
Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants of any age are encouraged to apply.
**Posting Dates:**
August 26, 2025 - September 7, 2025
The panel cannot make assumptions when shortlisting therefore please demonstrate your qualifications and experience on your CV relevant to the criteria outlined.
Pending the number of applications, the criteria for the position may be enhanced to facilitate shortlisting.
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