Engineering Project Team Leader

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Job Description:

Your Work Shapes the World at Caterpillar Inc.

When you join Caterpillar yourejoining 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 dontjust 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:

This position provides enterprise leadership for the High Value Technical Information Protection program that is outlined by enterprise procedure (EP2:27). The Chief Technology Officer owns the enterprise procedure and delegates the task of leading enterprise compliance to this role. This involves working with each of Caterpillars Divisions Technical Information Protection Champions / Chief Engineers and their delegates to ensure that high value technical information assets are being managed and protected as prescribed. This position reports to the Enterprise Risk Advisor for technical information within the Ethics & Compliance Program and as such will also advise on technical information risk beyond this specific enterprise procedure.

What You Will Do:

• Leading the Technical Information Protection Champion Program with the various Caterpillar business units to ensure compliance with enterprise procedure.
• Providing leadership for multi-disciplined teams of business partners to execute the processes and activities driven by enterprise procedure.
• Coordinate technical information protections including segmented storage locations (High Value Vault - HVV) Data Loss Prevention (DLP) and others.
• Maintain the enterprise inventory of high value technical information assets and lead the HVV exception process throughout the enterprise.
• Respond to DLP events and provide enterprise leadership for others that review DLP events.
• Maintain a focus on Continuous Process Improvement with projects related to HVV enhancement improved tools and processes engineering onboarding/offboarding and integration into other development processes.
• Conduct training and communication with Divisions both as requested and as part of required learning quarterly dashboards etc.
• Lead the annual Ethics & Compliance Enterprise Technical Information Risk Evaluation process.
• Support Divisions as a Technical Information Risk Advisor. This includes the opportunity to learn principles of Intellectual Property and Intellectual Capital Management.

Education requirement:

Bachelors degree in engineering or technology

What skills you will have:

Technical Excellence:

• While this is not a design role the successful candidate will be comfortable and able to discuss technologies across all Caterpillar products and services.
• Mentors and coaches team members to strengthen technical skills and promote knowledge sharing.
• Applies strong problem-solving and analytical skills to deliver innovative business-aligned technical solutions.
• Demonstrates accountability for personal performance while fostering a culture of technical excellence and responsibility.

Influencing Through Expertise:

• Communicates complex concepts clearly and effectively to diverse audiences ensuring shared understanding across teams.
• Demonstrates deep subject matter expertise and provides timely strategic insights across multiple business areas.
• Coaches and mentors others by sharing knowledge resources and development opportunities to build technical and professional skills.
• Applies critical thinking to evaluate arguments and guide others in adopting evidence-based trusted advisor practices.

Project Management:

• Lead high-risk enterprise-level projectsusing standardized project management methodologies to drive strategic outcomes and stakeholder alignment.
• Oversee project execution and risk management monitoring critical path progress and resolving variances in scope schedule and budget.
• Coach cross-functional teamsin effective communication and planning while integrating emerging industry tools and best practices.

Team Management:

• Drive project closure and continuous improvementby capturing lessons learned and implementing feedback into future initiatives.
• Define team mission goals and success metrics aligning diverse teams around shared objectives and strategic priorities.
• Foster team engagement and cohesionby leveraging individual strengths maintaining motivation and promoting a collaborative culture.
• Communicate effectively with stakeholders and team members ensuring transparency alignment and consistent progress updates.

Requirements Analysis:

• Lead requirements analysis and documentation ensuring accuracy and completeness across all project deliverables.
• Utilize advanced toolssuch as prototyping use cases and automated diagramming to support traceability and clarity of requirements.
• Develop detailed functional and technical specifications translating business needs into actionable models and documentation.
• Train and mentor teamson requirements walkthroughs quality reviews and best practices in analysis and documentation.

Additional Information:

This position requires the candidate to work onsite five days a week at the Peoria IL office.

Domestic relocation assistance is available for this position.

Visa sponsorship is NOT available with this position.

This position may require 10% travel.

What you will get:

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 wage because we value your performance we offer a total rewards package that provides:

• Competitive Base Salary
• Annual incentive bonus plan*
• Medical dental and vision coverage
• Paid time off plan (Vacation Holiday Volunteer Etc.)
• 401k savings plan
• Health savings account (HSA)
• Flexible spending accounts (FSAs)
• Short and long-term disability coverage
• Life Insurance
• Paid parental leave
• Healthy Lifestyle Programs
• Employee Assistance Programs
• Voluntary Benefits (Ex. Accident Identity Theft Protection)

*Subject to annual eligibility and incentive plan guidelines.

Final details:

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Compensation and benefits offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors job level market locationjob-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

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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