Engineering Project Team Leader at Caterpillar Inc Tucson, AZ
Career Area:
Engineering
Job Description:
JOB DUTIES:
The HMS Worktools Engineering Team Leader role consists of leading the team while also the acting as an individual contributor, bringing technical expertise to projects as well.
Team leaders must manage their own development, continuously learning through experience new business knowledge and skill.
Program/project management and strong organizational skills are critical.
Interpersonal, leadership, and strong communication skills are required.
Significant challenges of this position are working with people in different locations throughout the world:
enhancing the team's creativity; ensuring on time delivery of projects, meeting project and design cost targets, facilitating the team's cooperation; clearly communicating the requirements and tasks, while gaining input from the team on refinement of same; translating both verbal and non-verbal information from the customer, management, and team members.
Project team leaders are the spokesperson for the team in meetings with multiple levels of management and with the customer.
Team leader must develop good networks to enable them to obtain resources and cooperation needed and remove roadblocks so that they can insure the success of their team.
Project team leaders may be called upon to give input to performance reviews for team members.
Ever increasing skills in the role-based competencies of Managing Vision & Purpose, Decision Quality, and Negotiating are required.
The incumbent would set strategy at the project level.
The project would solve problems for a single technology, component, product, or process.
Project scope will vary up to a moderate technical focus on a component, product, or process and will require incumbent to broaden business understanding.
Although jobs/projects will have a relatively narrow focus, understanding and defining their benefits to the customer is crucial.
The ability to draw upon foundational product development skills such as conceptual design, development of product and/or process, data analysis & extraction, failure resolution & prevention, and requirements management is required; as well as, ever increasing skill in technical project management, development of product, internal and external requirements management, and cost-value management.
Team leaders must manage their own development, continuously learning through experience, understanding the customers' needs and application of the product or process, as well as keeping up with technology.
Experience in more than one engineering function is desirable, and experience in more than one business or service unit would be helpful.
Project team leaders are accountable for pulling together a team of individuals, who may or may not have worked together before, to solve a technical problem or create critical component(s) and systems or process.
Team leaders may or may not select the team and the job/project deadline.
Incumbent will be expected to pull input from the whole team to formulate decisions and develop the output for the job/project.
Key areas of responsibility encountered in the role of team leader are:
plan and manage the job/project; manage the business/financial aspects of the job or project; on time delivery; provide a supportive work environment for the team; mentor, coach, and develop others; and manage one's own development.
The team leader will interact with people from diverse technical and cultural backgrounds.
Incumbent will work within the team and beyond the team with contractors, hourly, salaried and management employees, suppliers, customers and individuals working in many Caterpillar organizations.
Decisions may affect the job/project team, the division or business unit, suppliers, both internal and external customers, and the market.
Expectations demand that jobs/projects be completed on time, independent of the hours required.
Acknowledging trade-offs between time, resources and quality and raising the customers' and management's awareness of those trade-offs is essential.
Basic
Qualifications:
o Bachelor degree in an accredited Engineering, Computer Science, or Materials Science curriculum and 10
years of engineering experience OR master's degree in an Engineering, Computer Science, or materials Science curriculum and 7
years of engineering experience OR a doctorate degree in Engineering and 5
of engineering experience o 3
years' experience Caterpillar Engineering Design Systems experience (Creo, Teamcenter) o 3
years' experience designing Caterpillar Worktool Buckets o Fluent in English Top Candidates will also have:
o Excellent Communication Skills o Extensive experience with HMS Buckets.
o Welding design, welding experience, steel casting design, material selection.
o Experience with leading large design projects from start to finish.
o Experience with commercial/quoting assistance and supplier development.
EEO/AA Employer.
All qualified individuals - Including minorities, females, veterans and individuals with disabilities - are encouraged to apply.
There's more to work at Caterpillar than just the work itself.
We hire smart, friendly people and it shows in our culture.
We hold ourselves to high standards and make sure our values of integrity, excellence, teamwork, commitment and sustainability come to life in the way we work.
We make sure our employees feel continuously challenged while also supported.
We provide professional growth opportunities, including leadership programs.
We celebrate the diversity of our team, while also working together as one Caterpillar.
Our culture, like everything at our company, is made possible by each employee's contribution.
Person by person, we create the environment we work in, and we are proud of the Caterpillar we've built.
.
Estimated Salary: $20 to $28 per hour based on qualifications.
Engineering
Job Description:
JOB DUTIES:
The HMS Worktools Engineering Team Leader role consists of leading the team while also the acting as an individual contributor, bringing technical expertise to projects as well.
Team leaders must manage their own development, continuously learning through experience new business knowledge and skill.
Program/project management and strong organizational skills are critical.
Interpersonal, leadership, and strong communication skills are required.
Significant challenges of this position are working with people in different locations throughout the world:
enhancing the team's creativity; ensuring on time delivery of projects, meeting project and design cost targets, facilitating the team's cooperation; clearly communicating the requirements and tasks, while gaining input from the team on refinement of same; translating both verbal and non-verbal information from the customer, management, and team members.
Project team leaders are the spokesperson for the team in meetings with multiple levels of management and with the customer.
Team leader must develop good networks to enable them to obtain resources and cooperation needed and remove roadblocks so that they can insure the success of their team.
Project team leaders may be called upon to give input to performance reviews for team members.
Ever increasing skills in the role-based competencies of Managing Vision & Purpose, Decision Quality, and Negotiating are required.
The incumbent would set strategy at the project level.
The project would solve problems for a single technology, component, product, or process.
Project scope will vary up to a moderate technical focus on a component, product, or process and will require incumbent to broaden business understanding.
Although jobs/projects will have a relatively narrow focus, understanding and defining their benefits to the customer is crucial.
The ability to draw upon foundational product development skills such as conceptual design, development of product and/or process, data analysis & extraction, failure resolution & prevention, and requirements management is required; as well as, ever increasing skill in technical project management, development of product, internal and external requirements management, and cost-value management.
Team leaders must manage their own development, continuously learning through experience, understanding the customers' needs and application of the product or process, as well as keeping up with technology.
Experience in more than one engineering function is desirable, and experience in more than one business or service unit would be helpful.
Project team leaders are accountable for pulling together a team of individuals, who may or may not have worked together before, to solve a technical problem or create critical component(s) and systems or process.
Team leaders may or may not select the team and the job/project deadline.
Incumbent will be expected to pull input from the whole team to formulate decisions and develop the output for the job/project.
Key areas of responsibility encountered in the role of team leader are:
plan and manage the job/project; manage the business/financial aspects of the job or project; on time delivery; provide a supportive work environment for the team; mentor, coach, and develop others; and manage one's own development.
The team leader will interact with people from diverse technical and cultural backgrounds.
Incumbent will work within the team and beyond the team with contractors, hourly, salaried and management employees, suppliers, customers and individuals working in many Caterpillar organizations.
Decisions may affect the job/project team, the division or business unit, suppliers, both internal and external customers, and the market.
Expectations demand that jobs/projects be completed on time, independent of the hours required.
Acknowledging trade-offs between time, resources and quality and raising the customers' and management's awareness of those trade-offs is essential.
Basic
Qualifications:
o Bachelor degree in an accredited Engineering, Computer Science, or Materials Science curriculum and 10
years of engineering experience OR master's degree in an Engineering, Computer Science, or materials Science curriculum and 7
years of engineering experience OR a doctorate degree in Engineering and 5
of engineering experience o 3
years' experience Caterpillar Engineering Design Systems experience (Creo, Teamcenter) o 3
years' experience designing Caterpillar Worktool Buckets o Fluent in English Top Candidates will also have:
o Excellent Communication Skills o Extensive experience with HMS Buckets.
o Welding design, welding experience, steel casting design, material selection.
o Experience with leading large design projects from start to finish.
o Experience with commercial/quoting assistance and supplier development.
EEO/AA Employer.
All qualified individuals - Including minorities, females, veterans and individuals with disabilities - are encouraged to apply.
There's more to work at Caterpillar than just the work itself.
We hire smart, friendly people and it shows in our culture.
We hold ourselves to high standards and make sure our values of integrity, excellence, teamwork, commitment and sustainability come to life in the way we work.
We make sure our employees feel continuously challenged while also supported.
We provide professional growth opportunities, including leadership programs.
We celebrate the diversity of our team, while also working together as one Caterpillar.
Our culture, like everything at our company, is made possible by each employee's contribution.
Person by person, we create the environment we work in, and we are proud of the Caterpillar we've built.
.
Estimated Salary: $20 to $28 per hour based on qualifications.
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