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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
Assists Program Manager with the management of more complex projects within a corporate program.

Responsibilities
• Tracking progress according to program schedules and goals; developing solutions to program problems.
• Participating in the preparations of proposals, plans, and program specifications.
• Developing the project scope documents, project timetables and other documents that would be provided to Program Managers.
• Monitoring the scheduling, budget, and performance of company programs.

• Cooperating with PC&S on autonomy related regulation and compliance support.

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.
• Walks through steps, decisions, measurements, dependencies and hand-offs for a specific process.
• Creates process flow or work flow diagrams.
• Identifies and monitors common process bottlenecks.

Collaboration and effective communication: Knowledge of collaborative techniques and effective communication; ability to work with a variety of individuals and groups and effectively transmit, receive, and accurately interpret ideas, information, and needs through the application of appropriate communication behaviors.
• Initiates collaborative meetings.
• Helps promote collaboration across generations, functions, regions, and levels.
• Helps solve business problems and deliver helpful feedbacks through collaborative processes

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.
• Organizes potential problem solvers and leads problem resolution efforts.
• Uses varying problem-solving approaches and techniques as appropriate.
• Analyzes and synthesizes information and devises alternative resolution strategies.
• Develops successful resolutions to critical or wide-impact 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.
• 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.

Data and Information Gathering and Reporting: Knowledge of tools, techniques and processes for gathering and reporting data or information from regulation, field, market, system or machine; ability to practice them in division.
• Detects and summarizes patterns in data and findings by producing simple reports.
• Assesses common problems and obstacles surrounding data-gathering.
• Customizes data fields to meet requirements.
• Participates in projects to gather data for needs analysis.

Degree and Working Experience Requirement
Bachelor Degree or above

3 years and above working experience in project management or product development

Preferred qualifications

• Project management experience related with digital NPI or Software development

• Regulation and compliance related working experience

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Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer.  Qualified applicants of any age are encouraged to apply

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