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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.

Role Definition
Manages the planning, organization and integration of complex projects.

Responsibilities
•    Overseeing project processes and procedures.
•    Managing all aspects of projects. Setting deadlines, assigning responsibilities, and monitoring and summarizing progress of project.
•    Reviewing and ensuring adherence to project materials, deliverables methodologies and procedures.
•    Preparing and presenting project level reporting for upper management.

Degree Requirement
Degree or equivalent experience desired

Skill Descriptors

Process Management: Knowledge of business process improvement tools and techniques; ability to understand, monitor, update, control, or enhance existing business or work processes.

Level Extensive Experience: 
•    Helps others learn the tools and techniques for process value analysis.
•    Carries out process evaluation, diagnosis, and optimization.
•    Demonstrates a thorough understanding of a major process flow, its components and issues.
•    Synchronizes the efforts of, and resource requirements for, several teams within a process.
•    Makes the business case for new processes, including their cost-benefit ratios.
•    Possesses knowledge of tools and techniques for designing and implementing new processes.

Analytical Thinking: Knowledge of techniques and tools that promote effective analysis; ability to determine the root cause of organizational problems and create alternative solutions that resolve these problems.

Level Extensive Experience: 
•    Seeks discrepancies and inconsistencies in available information; explains variances.
•    Organizes and prioritizes the sequence of steps to be taken to remedy the situation.
•    Identifies many possible causes for a problem based on prior experience and current research.
•    Approaches a complex problem by breaking it down into its component parts.
•    Chooses among a diverse set of analytical tools according to the nature of the situation.
•    Quantifies the costs, benefits, risks, and chances for success before recommending a course of action.

Effective Communications: Understanding of effective communication concepts, tools and techniques; ability to effectively transmit, receive, and accurately interpret ideas, information, and needs through the application of appropriate communication behaviors.

Level Extensive Experience: 
•    Reviews others' writing or presentations and provides feedback and coaching.
•    Adapts documents and presentations for the intended audience.
•    Demonstrates both empathy and assertiveness when communicating a need or defending a position.
•    Communicates well downward, upward, and outward.
•    Employs appropriate methods of persuasion when soliciting agreement.
•    Maintains focus on the topic at hand.

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 Working Knowledge: 
•    Recognizes changing demands and priorities; validates changes with management.
•    Obtains information about how current assignments contribute to organizational goals.
•    Completes current work according to assigned priorities.
•    Responds to day-to-day operational priorities while still making progress on project work.
•    Performs at least 2-3 concurrent activities without reducing productivity.

Relationship Management: Knowledge of relationship management techniques; ability to establish and maintain healthy working relationships with clients, vendors, and peers.

Level Working Knowledge: 
•    Provides prompt and effective responses to client requests and interactions.
•    Monitors client satisfaction levels on a regular basis.
•    Alerts own team to problems in client satisfaction.
•    Differentiates the roles and responsibilities in a business relationship.
•    Works with clients to address critical issues and resolve major problems.

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 Extensive Experience: 
•    Utilizes preferred tools, techniques and methods for estimating project cost and time.
•    Plans, estimates, staffs, organizes and monitors significant projects.
•    Identifies risks and vulnerabilities; creates contingency plans.
•    Conducts regular and ad-hoc project reviews with project team, sponsors, and clients.
•    Maintains open communication among project participants and interested parties.
•    Communicates reporting requirements; creates monitoring and control mechanisms.

Data Gathering and Reporting: Knowledge of tools, techniques and processes for gathering and reporting data; ability to practice them in a particular department or division of a company.

Level Extensive Experience: 
•    Prepares cost-benefit analyses of alternative approaches.
•    Analyzes complex reports as revealed by the data.
•    Teaches others the calculations necessary to capture data and develop more complex reports.
•    Oversees multiple data-gathering and analysis initiatives.
•    Participates in developing criteria for selecting data gathering and reporting tools and techniques for various projects.
•    Reviews and verifies data and reports for accuracy.

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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