Manager Technology Turbomachinery

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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.

The Solar Turbines is a wholly owned subsidiary of Caterpillar Inc is on the front line of developing new innovative products that are crucial to the success of customers in a wide range of O&G Industries. We are looking for a motivated creative out of the box thinking Technical Leader to work in a fast-paced engineering environment using the agile development process to see Solar experience profitable growth and make our customers successful.

Responsibilities

• Managing staffing development and performance management for the engineering team; motivating and developing project and team members.

• Providing specialized engineering technical support and consulting services to various areas of the organization.

• Manage a multidisciplinary team (Mechanical PCE Electrical CDE) to deliver projects on time

• Champion the Agile Process and guide the team to solve technical problems

• Assisting with high-impact long-duration engineering initiatives and projects; ensuring achievement of the engineering plan and product quality.

• Maintaining product release plans and material plans; driving programs to completion on time and within budget.

Degree Requirement

• A bachelors degree in engineering or equivalent from an accredited college or university or equivalent relevant experience.

• Minimum 12 years of experience from Turbomachinery relevant industries.

Skill Descriptors
Customer Focus: Knowledge of the values and practices that align customer needs and satisfaction as primary considerations in all business decisions and ability to leverage that information in creating customized customer solutions.
Level Working Knowledge:
Communicates the importance of customer needs/expectations and commits to resolving them.
Researches and verifies customer needs and expectations.
Solicits customer satisfaction feedback and acts on improvement opportunities.
Helps link organizational objectives to customer needs and expectations.
Meets regularly with customers to understand their wants needs and expectations.

Planning: Tactical Strategic: Knowledge of effective planning techniques and ability to contribute to operational (short term) tactical (1-2 years) and strategic (3-5 years) planning in support of the overall business plan.
Level Working Knowledge:
Contributes to short-term operational plans.
Anticipates and adapts to plan changes.
Monitors progress of work against plan as required to meet objectives.
Reports variances and makes agreed-upon corrections.
Under guidance develops tactical plan for own direct responsibility.

Decision Making and Critical Thinking: Knowledge of the decision-making process and associated tools and techniques; ability to accurately analyze situations and reach productive decisions based on informed judgment.
Level Basic Understanding:
Explains characteristics and steps in an effective decision-making process.
Identifies issues and communicates with others when a decision needs to be made.
Names decision makers in own environment and cites examples of past decisions.
Describes types of decisions incumbent may and may not make in own job or function.

Problem Solving: Knowledge of approaches tools techniques for recognizing anticipating and resolving organizational operational or process problems; ability to apply knowledge of problem solving appropriately to diverse situations.
Level Working Knowledge:
Identifies and documents specific problems and resolution alternatives.
Examines a specific problem and understands the perspective of each involved stakeholder.
Develops alternative techniques for assessing accuracy and relevance of information.
Helps to analyze risks and benefits of alternative approaches and obtain decision on resolution.
Uses fact-finding techniques and diagnostic tools to identify problems.

Technical Excellence: Knowledge of a given technology and various application methods; ability to develop and provide solutions to significant technical challenges.
Level Extensive Experience:
Advises others on the assessment and provision of all technical 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.
Coaches others in promoting defining analyzing and providing superior technical solutions to business problems.
Provides effective solutions to moderate technical challenges through strong technical competence effectively examining implications of events and issues.
Assumes accountability for personal technical performance and holds others responsible for theirs.

Managing People: Knowledge of processes involved in managing people; ability to lead successful teams and diligently address issues related to performance and conflicts at the workplace.
Level Working Knowledge:
Assesses the amount of time and resources needed to accomplish a task; delegates work accordingly.
Explains how the teams work contributes to the success of the organization; creates a shared vision.
Reviews progress and performance of employees; addresses bottlenecks or concerns impending employee growth.
Uses multiple channels such as meetings e-mails newsletters to communicate important messages with the team regularly.
Works with employees to set and define performance standards and career development goals; supports in achieving them.

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 Working Knowledge:
Provides input for Gantt or PERT charts or their equivalent to track project progress and status.
Under guidance plans and estimates simple projects.
Assists in detailed project plans including cost schedule and resource requirements.
Obtains information from stakeholders during the planning stage of a project.
Produces standard project status reports.

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 Working Knowledge:
Builds three-dimensional models with basic materials.
Communicates with professionals to understand various requirements of product design.
Tests and evaluates alternative means of production being considered for use.
Uses automated tools to design or modify the design of a product.
Assists in building a complex prototype of product.

This Job Description is intended as a general guide to the job duties for this position and is intended for the purpose of establishing the specific salary grade. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as an exhaustive summary of all responsibilities duties and effort required of employees assigned to this job. At the discretion of management this description may be changed at any time to address the evolving needs of the organization. It is expressly not intended to be a comprehensive list of essential job functions as that term is defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act.

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