Program Management Manager
Caterpillar

Job Info

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Career Area:
Strategy
Job Description:

Your Work Shapes the World at Caterpillar Inc.

When you join Caterpillar, you're joining 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 don't just 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.

WE BUILD WHAT MATTERS

What matters most to you? Is it being a part of a strong team? Supporting your family? Solving global problems? You can do these and more at Caterpillar; where your work enables progress around the globe, and you contribute to meaningful work. Together, we can build what matters.

About EPD:

Caterpillar's Electric Power Division (EPD) offers integrated solutions, parts, and services to meet the needs of our various commercial and industrial electric power customers. EPD supports a wide range of customer applications across the globe, including providing back-up power to hospitals, providing emergency power when natural disasters strike, and supporting critical infrastructure for data centers, municipalities, and more. With a rich history of more than 95 years in the electric power business, our team has world-class expertise and a proven ability to adapt to changing demands. We're committed to providing sustainable and reliable solutions to our customers. Join our team to help build a better, more sustainable world for future generations!

Job Summary:

The Program Management Manager will provide direct leadership to the Caterpillar Switchgear AES project management team responsible for successful execution of AES projects and/or accounts from Order Entry through Project Closeout. Program manager will have a thorough knowledge of the principles relating to the design, and operation of paralleling switchgear systems and AES solutions. The ability to apply these principles to the direction of other disciplines and to direct people of lesser experience in the performance of paralleling switchgear systems relative to the support of AES projects. The individual in this position must be generally familiar with financial, commercial, contractual, and technical aspects of the AES project, including dealer structure and processes.

Degree Requirement:

• Demonstrated skills and expertise in mediation and negotiation.
  
• Ability to strategically and tactically organize and structure project execution activities.
  
• College or university degree or equivalent experience required.
  
• Minimum of five years of progressively responsible job-related experience desired.
  

What you will do:

• Overseeing the hiring, development and management of AES Project Management team. Also, directs day to day work assignments while coaching, mentoring and setting priorities.
• Designing, establishing and monitoring the organization's project management goals.
• Lead a team of Project Managers and analysts who plan, schedule, manage, supervise, and oversee the execution of broad and complex AES projects.

• management / escalation of financial, commercial, contractual, and technical aspects of the AES projects as well as oversight for the planning, design, procurement, assembly, test, shipment, and commissioning of AES projects

• manage commercial aspects and support technical direction to various other project teams, including engineering, purchasing, production and field service teams.

What you will have:
Budgeting: Knowledge of organization's budget process; ability to apply policies and practices for planning and administering a budget.
Level Working Knowledge:
• Applies established organizational practices in budgeting.
• Under guidance, produces budget reports of planned vs. actual expenses with variances explained.
• Supplies supporting information and justification for major line items.
• Uses budgeting and charge-back practices within own area.

Conflict Management: Knowledge of managing conflicts; ability to anticipate, recognize, and deal effectively with existing or potential conflicts at the individual, group, or situation level.
Level Working Knowledge:
• Identifies and maximizes areas of agreement in order to mitigate tensions.
• Uses a specific methodology for conflict resolution.
• Facilitates reconciliation rather than divisiveness among individuals.
• Under guidance, appropriately confronts others to get issues out in the open.
• Uses active listening skills and probing techniques to understand cause of a conflict.

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 Working Knowledge:
• Applies an assigned technique for critical thinking in a decision-making process.
• Typically develops solution to commercial problems and provides support in solving technical problems
• Applies advanced knowledge and experience rather than fixed "textbook" methods..
• Recognizes, clarifies, and prioritizes concerns.
• Assists in assessing risks, benefits and consideration of alternatives. Must be able to achieve coordination of complex projects by working with design, contract, commercial and production planning specialists

Influencing: Knowledge of effective influencing tactics and strategies; ability to impact decisions within and outside own organization.
Level Working Knowledge:
• Develops basic persuasive arguments.
• Discusses organizational culture around providing input on decisions.
• Uses active listening skills and probing techniques to surface opportunities to influence.
• Identifies who the decision makers are and how they receive information.
• Regularly presents ideas or suggestions to associates in persuasive terms.

Managing Multiple Priorities: Knowledge of effective self-management practices; ability to manage multiple concurrent objectives, projects, groups, or activities, making effective judgments as to prioritizing and time allocation.
Level Extensive Experience:
• Insure technical and commercial strategy is well understood throughout the manufacturing and engineering project team
• Shifts focus among several efforts as required by changing priorities.
• Addresses potential conflicts that impact current delivery commitments.
• Works with or leads others to re-prioritize work and reschedule commitments as necessary.
• Responds to shifting priorities while maintaining progress of regularly scheduled work.
• Demonstrates an expectation that there will be ongoing shifts in demands and priorities.

Exercises considerable latitude in determination of commercial objectives.

innovative and inventive to solve commercial or complex product problems

Cross-Team Integration: Understanding of the importance of inter-team collaboration in breaking down silos and achieving business results; ability to lead employees from various functions to communicate, coordinate work across divisions, and collaborate in solving problems as one team.
Level Extensive Experience:
• Involves key stakeholders in upfront planning efforts.
• Enlists formal and informal network contacts to improve collaboration among teams
• Coordinate project schedule with both the customer and production control..
• Insure technical and commercial strategy is well understood throughout the manufacturing and engineering project team.
• Coaches others on best methods for performing teamwork across organizational boundaries.
• Recommends systems and technology to promote widespread collaboration.

Coordinate project schedule with both the customer and production control.

Planning and Organizing: Knowledge of the process of planning and arranging tasks and resources; ability to plan and organize both time and resources to get things completed while structuring and maintaining work in a systematic and highly methodical way.
Level Extensive Experience:
• Updates stakeholders on potential changes; re-negotiates requirements as necessary.
• Identifies the critical goals and tasks required to meet daily objectives.
• Interface with the customer on technical and commercial matters.
• Evaluates linkages and interrelationships when prioritizing multiple responsibilities.
• Manages conflicting priorities effectively.
• Tracks the implementation of plans closely to ensure that desired outcomes are achieved.

Resource Management: Knowledge of the resources required to achieve business objectives; ability to plan, mobilize and distribute resources to fulfill business objectives and plans.
Level Working Knowledge:
• Calculates resource usage to set a baseline for comparison.
• Monitors progress to schedule in engineering, provisioning, and production operations
• Surfaces opportunities to improve resource utilization.
• Initiates requests for required resources.
• Prepares cost estimates at booking, shipment and at start up completion.

Liaison: Represents the project management organization and is the prime commercial, technical, and contractual authority responsible for the execution of complex projects. Interfaces with internal management of the Company as well as customers. Internal contacts and peers may be department and business managers, project managers, production managers, product support team, and engineering. External contacts are project managers and management of Caterpillar Dealers, major clients, and sub-suppliers.

Additional Information:

• This position will sit from Alpharetta, GA, in a hybrid flexible role (Tuesday-Thursday in office, Monday & Friday working from home).

• Domestic relocation assistance is not offered for this position.

• Visa Sponsorship is not offered for this position.

• Domestic travel of 5-10% is required.

Employee Benefit Details:

• 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 benefits on day one (medical, dental, vision, RX, and 401K) along with the potential of an annual bonus.

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

Final Details:
This employer is not currently hiring foreign national applicants that require or will require sponsorship tied to a specific employer, such as H, L, TN, F, J, E, O. As a global company, Caterpillar offers many job opportunities outside of the U.S. which can be found through our employment website at www.Caterpillar.com/Careers

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Visa Sponsorship is not available for this position. This employer is not currently hiring foreign national applicants that require or will require sponsorship tied to a specific employer, such as, H, L, TN, F, J, E, O. As a global company, Caterpillar offers many job opportunities outside of the U.S which can be found through our employment website at www.caterpillar.com/careers.
Posting Dates:
November 21, 2024 - December 2, 2024
Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen.

EEO/AA Employer. All qualified individuals - Including minorities, females, veterans and individuals with disabilities - are encouraged to apply.

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