Engineering Manager
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MINING TECHOLOGY PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT ENGINEERING MANGER
Caterpillars Integrated Components and Solutions Division is currently seeking a Mining Technology Product Engineering Manager for the Caterpillar MineStar System. As the engineering manager you will be accountable for the leadership of the technical team responsible for the mining technology solutions for automating vehicles used in underground mining applications. This role is directly responsible for delivering technical outcomes in support of new product development enhancement maintenance support performance and innovation. The leader in this role will be expected to establish goals for the team that deliver towards the department goals and product strategy.
In this position you will have a team of direct reports who function as technical leads of enterprise process for management of change including NPI (New Product Introduction) NTI (New Technology Introduction CPI (Continuous Product Improvement and NMI (New Market Introductions) bringing all engineering work together to deliver the technical aspect of the program. The Technical leads bring the engineering development together collaborating with and leveraging engineering teams in partner organizations. These delivery teams span across multiple different internal and external organizations to deliver technical solutions that fully integrate with other product systems to complete a mine site technology solution. As engineering manager you are ultimately responsible for the delivery of all of these teams to meet product objectives schedules and quality targets.
This position is also responsible to provide technical support to customers the MineStar operations teams and product support. There are frequent and regular interactions with customers and end users. The engineering manager must be able to build relationships and partnerships with product support commercial teams strategy teams process owners and customers in order to provide exceptional service. Serving the product support teams and customers well is what provides best in class value for the MineStar solution.
The incumbent must have strong technical and analytical skills good communication and project management skills a broad technical knowledge base strong engineering judgement and demonstrated team leadership skills. The incumbent must have the ability to interface with mining customers tactfully and with technical competence.
Job Duties/Responsibilities may include but are not limited to:
- Manages and coordinates technical feasibility assessment planning design optimization costs/schedule management risk assessment/mitigation project communication and ongoing production support.
- Promotes and fosters strong partnerships with partner organizations internal to Caterpillar and with suppliers external to Caterpillar.
- Researches and monitors industry developments such as technology materials and process advance; identifies potential new product opportunities and strategies.
- Provides leadership and performance management to product development engineering staff and monitors product development and production processes and activities.
- Develops department goals for quality reliability scheduling and support; monitors projects to help product development team meet goals.
- Leading Product Improvement projects.
- Stimulating team innovation
- Communicating globally with customers suppliers team members and other business units
- Providing guidance and oversight for product analysis and validation.
Required Qualifications and Skills:
- Bachelors degree in an accredited Engineering curriculum
- Greater than 10 years of relevant product design software development or mining technology development experience
- Proven team leadership experience
- Decision making Critical thinking Communicating for Impact and customer focus.
- Proven experience executing projects requiring in depth technical analysis or applying analytical processes to solution development.
- Demonstrated problem solving capability.
- Demonstrated record of selfdirected work.
Top Candidates Will Also Have:
- 5 years experience working on MineStar office solutions or Hard Rock Vehicle(HRV) products
- Caterpillar Product Development Experience NPI process / leadership experience
- Experience with application of automation and information technologies to machines
- Software and Systems Development Experience.
Additional Information:
This position will be located in Brisbane Burnie Melbourne or Perth Australia
This position requires up to 25 travel approximately 1 week every month.
Posting Dates:
April 8 2025 April 15 2025Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EEO).
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Manager
Employment Type
Full-Time
