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.

Lead Innovation as the Medium Wheel Loader (MWL) Senior Engineering Manager at Caterpillar Inc.

Are you a visionary technical leader ready to shape the future of heavy equipment? At Caterpillar, we’re looking for a Medium Wheel Loader (MWL) Sr. Engineering Manager to lead with purpose and drive excellence across our engineering teams.

In this influential role, you’ll:

Inspire and Empower: Lead a high-performing team of technical experts, ensuring they have the right tools, processes, and support to deliver innovative solutions that meet our quality, cost, and speed targets.

Execute Strategy: Deliver the product group’s vision by aligning technical execution with business goals, ensuring we stay ahead in a competitive global market.

Champion Talent Development: Invest in people—your leadership will focus on recognizing, mentoring, and growing technical talent both within your team and across the Earthmoving Division.

This is a pivotal leadership opportunity to influence the success of Caterpillar’s Medium Wheel Loader product line. If you’re driven by engineering excellence, team development, and delivering results that matter, this role offers the platform to make a lasting impact within a respected global organization.

What You Will Do (Job Duties):

• Lead Global Engineering Teams: Direct and coordinate a worldwide team responsible for machine systems integration, configuration, and engineering support across multiple global facilities.

• Drive Product Development and Innovation: Oversee New Product Introduction (NPI), Rapid Product Development, and Custom Products initiatives to ensure timely and cost-effective delivery of innovative solutions.

• Ensure Operational Excellence: Manage engineering maintenance, facility NPI, and support functions to meet quality, affordability, and velocity targets through robust processes and tools.

• Develop Technical Talent: Champion the growth and recognition of engineering talent by implementing people management strategies and fostering leadership development across the Earthmoving Division.

• Execute Strategic Vision: Translate the product group’s vision into actionable plans, ensuring alignment of technical capabilities with business goals and maintaining a high-performance engineering culture.

What You Have (Basic Qualifications):

• Degree Requirements: Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Engineering

• Managing People:
  • Leadership skills to lead an organization and the ability to interpret a vision and strategy, execute on it to delivery results with a diverse team
  • Coaching and developing team members to improve and excel with challenging goals
  • Excellent networking skills to network with leaders across enterprise organizations to make a positive impact on the business

• Technical Excellence:
  • Demonstrated use of new innovations and technologies to solve business problems
  • Deep expertise in product development, business management, and NPI

• Effective Global Communication:
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to convey complex ideas clearly and concisely across all levels of the organization, facilitating collaboration and alignment
  • Create a climate for global collaboration in the organization and minimizes barriers to collaboration.

Additional Info:

• Office Model: Caterpillar requires employees to work onsite in the office five days a week.
• Travel: 5-10% domestic and international travel is expected.
• Relocation: Domestic relocation will be available to those who qualify.
• ISE: ISE assignments are not available.
• Visa Sponsorship: Visa sponsorship is not available.

Summary Pay Range:

$169,320.00 - $253,920.00

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:

May 16, 2025 - May 30, 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.

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