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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.

Your Work Shapes the World

Whether it be groundbreaking products, best in class solutions or creating a lifelong career, you can do the work that matters at Caterpillar. With a 95-year legacy of quality and innovation and 150 locations in countries around the world, your impact spans the globe.

When you join Caterpillar, you are joining a team of makers, innovators, and doers. We are the people who roll up our sleeves and do the work to build a better world. We don’t just talk about progress and innovation. We make it happen. And we are proud of that, because it helps our customers build and power the world we live in – the roads, hospitals, homes, and infrastructure. Without a dedicated workforce Caterpillar could not effectively meet our customer’s needs. Join us.

Description

To lead a team of program and project management professionals who are assigned to multiple individual programs or projects. Direct day to day work assignments while coaching, mentoring and setting priorities.

Position requires broad experience in Project Management tools and processes, and ability to: facilitate projects, lead chartering sessions, develop / validate network diagrams, lead integration and compression sessions.

Job Duties

Direct reports would include Project Coordinators & Specialists. Team will be expected to complete complex programs in one or more business sectors and manage programs on time and within budget, while meeting the requirements of the customer. Responsible to coach, mentor, and supervise the project coordinators and specialists in daily assignments and activities and ensure that professional program management techniques and tools are used to manage programs and projects.

This level of leader will have had one or more previous team leader or manager assignments. Position will typically support a diverse customer base with differing program management requirements and will often provide high-end project management services such as portfolio resource management and cost management.

The incumbent’s team will be focusing on multiple programs in this assignment. The Manager role accounts for at least 75% of this assignment and the incumbent will have a smaller role of leading programs.

Must be knowledgeable and ensure that any division or department governance processes are followed when necessary (NPI, Logistics NPI, S&OP, Etc…).

Must develop networks and execute a communication strategy to assist the program managers to obtain resources and cooperation needed and remove roadblocks so that they can ensure the success of their team. This manager role spends considerable amount of time developing new business partner relationships (ie. New business development) and maintaining customer satisfaction for existing business partners.

Key areas of responsibility are plan and manage the budget for the team; provide a supportive work environment for the team; select, mentor, coach, and develop others. Position is responsible for all personnel issues and completion of the PMP and career development processes for the staff.

Will manage his/her own development, continuously learning through experience, interpersonal and leadership skills, and understanding the customers’ needs and application of the process, as well as keeping up with technology. Facilitate and lead process improvement initiatives related to project management processes.

The manager will interact with people from diverse technical and cultural backgrounds. Incumbent will work with own team and with contractors, hourly, salaried and management employees, suppliers, customers, and individuals working in many Caterpillar organizations. Acknowledging and raising awareness of trade-offs between time, resources, and quality, and raising the customers’ and management’s awareness of those tradeoffs is essential. Understanding and defining benefits of project or program to the customer is crucial.

Basic Qualifications

Bachelor’s/4-year Degree

12-15 years of progressively responsible project management experience including previous team lead and/or supervisory experience.

Top Candidates will also have

Significant experience in portfolio/program/large project management is essential, as is good working knowledge of project management software tools such as MS Project

Strong Program/project management skills, including resource and cost management, are critical. Excellent human relations skills are required to develop a cooperative work relationship with others inside and outside the department.

Must possess good business acumen as demonstrated by knowledge of business planning processes and/or project cost management experience.

Project Management Professional (PMP) certification is highly desirable.

Additional Information

The location for this position is Mossville, IL

Relocation assistance is not available for this position. Any relocation costs incurred would be the responsibility of the selected candidate.

This position may require up to 10% travel.

Employee benefit details

Our goal at Caterpillar is for you to have a rewarding career. Our teams are critical to the success of our customers who build a better world.

Here you earn more than just a salary because we value your performance. We offer a total rewards package that provides benefits on day one (medical, dental, vision, RX, and 401K) along with the potential of an annual bonus.

Additional benefits include paid vacation days and paid holidays (prorated based upon hire date).

Final details

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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.

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