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.

Job Summary

Caterpillar’s Electrification + Energy Solutions Division is looking an experienced Battery Systems Technical Lead to develop battery solutions for a wide range of applications. This role applies product knowledge to develop innovative solutions, impacts key decisions and battery strategy, utilizes project management skills to maintain commitments, fosters collaboration across the organization, interfaces with external partners, gathers key requirements, and evaluates business impacts and technical tradeoffs. This exciting opportunity will serve a critical role in developing batteries for wide range of Caterpillar applications.

Responsibilities

· Leads key battery system decision matrix activities by forming teams across the organization, pulling in subject matter experts, analyzing options and tradeoffs and making a final recommendation to leadership

· Leveraging product and process knowledge to develop project R&D and material estimates, detailed resource loading and high-level project plans in order to make tradeoffs between several solutions

· Work with internal and external partners, including NPI program, battery product team, new technology, manufacturing, and application teams to clearly summarize and communicate the battery system teams comprehensive project deliverables, areas of risk and suggest opportunities for improvement

· Collaborates with design, analysis, manufacturing, validation and chief engineers to develop project design review templates, schedules design reviews, captures arears for improvements, big wins prior to program gateways or other key project stakeholder updates

What you have:

Degree Requirement: Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering, or related technical field

Technical Excellence: Extensive experience with design or development of mechanical or electrical systems including moderate experience with battery systems, components or sub systems
Level Extensive Experience:
• Advises others on the assessment and provision of battery 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.

Influencing Through Expertise: Experience as an established, successful project leader with demonstration of your capability to lead, motivate and influence directly and indirectly

Level Extensive Experience:
• Ability to communicate, collaborate, and build trust across a wide and diverse range of people – customers, dealers, product specialists, internal partners, technicians, engineers, direct reports, and leaders

• 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 battery systems
• Provides others with information, opportunities, or resources to develop their skills in the area of expertise.
• 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.

Team Management: Knowledge of effective team building techniques; ability to form and manage effective teams.

Level Expert:
• Manages conflict and competition between teams and across organizational lines.
• Fosters a collaborative work spirit across the organization.
• Serves as a leader in organization-wide initiatives that require cross-functional teams.

Requirements Analysis: Knowledge of tools, methods, and techniques of requirement analysis; ability to elicit, analyze and record required business functionality and non-functionality requirements to ensure the success of a system or software development project.
Level Extensive Experience:
• Plays an active or leading role in recording and storing requirement documents in various forms.
• Ensures the successful completion of all major activities, tasks and deliverables pertaining to the requirement analysis stage.
• Produces detailed functional and information requirements models and documentation.

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 Expert:
• Advocates the development of new technologies and tools for product design and development.
• Leads cross-functional teams assembled for the purpose of product design and development.
• Develops organizational best practices for the management of product design and development.
• Establishes new product development strategies and processes for the organization.
• Predicts future trends of product design and development.

Other:

• Position is located in Mossville/Peoria, IL

• Domestic relocation is available

• Sponsorship is not available

• Position is based in-office Monday through Friday

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Summary Pay Range:

$144,960.00 - $217,320.00

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

Relocation is available for this position.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:

April 10, 2025 - April 24, 2025

Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen.

EEO/AA Employer. All qualified individuals - Including minorities, females, veterans and individuals with disabilities - are encouraged to apply.

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