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Building Construction Products (BCP) Division has a product development engineering opportunity as the Engineering Manager – Product Validation and Facility Management for the Clayton Machine Development Center (CMDC) located in Clayton, North Carolina USA.

Within this role, the successful candidate will be a leader of leaders that oversees a sixty-person organization of test engineers, product development technicians; and endurance operators to build, test, and validate products from BCP’s global product line. Additionally, the successful candidate will have leadership, planning, and operational responsibilities for safety, compliance, sustainability, site expansions, capital, and improving the employee experience.

Specifically, as the Engineering Manager, you can expect to:

• Lead the facility’s safety strategy and drive a positive, accountable, and relentless safety culture.
• Provide strategic vision along with multi-generation planning and execution for the location’s buildings, fields, and overall product development capabilities.
• Serve and collaborate with BCP’s global product groups to plan, execute, and balance multiple New Product Introduction (NPI) and New Technology Introduction (NTI) programs, regularly with competing timeline priorities, through the facility’s build, test, and validation operations.
• Lead the facility’s compliance strategy and ensure legal, regulatory, and company compliance requirements are met in a lean, timely, and practical manner.
• Provide relationship management to other divisions operating on site and ensure healthy collaboration, proper program support, and resource alignments are achieved.
• Develop, execute, and sustain an “employee experience” team and strategy.
• Recruit, develop, drive clear expectations, and inspire both employees and leaders in their organization.

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To be successful in this role, you must bring (Basic Qualifications):

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science, or other accredited engineering curriculum.
• Progressive and extensive experience in machine product design and/or system design with components integration and/or product validation.
• Experience as an established, successful leader with demonstration of capability to lead, motivate and influence directly and indirectly.

Top candidates will also bring:

• Proven team leadership, people development, and coaching experience.
• Ability to communicate, collaborate, and build trust across a wide and diverse range of people – customers, dealers, product specialists, internal partners, technicians, machine operators, engineers, direct reports, and leaders.

• Ability to identify, financialize, gain support, and deliver high return on investment physical expansions and capability enhancements for a location.
• Ability to leverage enterprise investments while also aligning with and influencing corporate strategies.
• Ability to understand, optimize, and execute legal, regulatory, and company compliance requirements.

Additional Details:

• Location: Clayton, NC USA.
• Domestic relocation is available to those who qualify.
• 10-25% of travel is expected (domestic and international).
• ISE assignment is not available for this position.
• Visa sponsorship may be available to eligible candidates.
• This position will be open to applicants through 06/20/2023 at 11:59PM EST.

How We Support You (Employee Benefits):

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 a salary, because we value your performance. We offer a total rewards package that provides day one benefits [medical, dental, vision, RX, and 401(k)] along with the potential of an annual bonus.

Additional benefits include paid vacation days and paid holidays (prorated based upon hire date).

The Power of Everyone :

At Caterpillar, we believe each person is unique and valued, and are committed to ensuring that our workplace is diverse and representative of the many customers we serve around the globe. Different perspectives help us achieve our best work and come together to form a high-performing Caterpillar team that makes positive changes in the communities where we live and work.

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