Job Information
Caterpillar, Inc. Senior Engineering Manager – Small Engines in Peterborough, United Kingdom
Career Area:
Engineering
Job Description:
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Job Title: Senior Engineering Manager – Small Engines
Salary: £90,100 per annum + dependent upon experience
Location: Peterborough, Cambridgeshire
Benefits:
25 days annual leave plus UK bank holidays
Up to 31% Bonus
Monthly Car Allowance - £750 PCM
Equity Package
Contributory pension scheme - Caterpillar will double the employee's contribution Up to 10%
Contributory share scheme - Caterpillar will match 50% of the employee's contribution.
Optional flexible benefits including access to health and dental care plans, EV car lease, holiday purchase.
Flexible working arrangements will be considered for this role, in-line with the needs of the business.
Sponsorship & relocation is not supported for this role.
Talent Attraction sign-on reward considered for this role.
About IPSD
Caterpillar’s Industrial Power Systems Division (IPSD) designs, tests and manufactures 0.5 to 18L Cat® and Perkins engines that power over 5000 applications including Marine, Petroleum, Industrial Applications, Electric Generators, and Locomotives. Caterpillar’s company strategy includes sustainability as one of four focus areas and IPSD is engaged and actively preparing green energy solutions for the future.
Job Summary
In this role you will be responsible for setting the long-term technical product development strategy for our small engines range 0.5L to 2.2L, while ensuring deliverables in the short term are met to achieve this. This means directing the engineering function supporting new product introduction programmes, current product health projects, cost reduction projects, supplier validation and ensuring product regulatory compliance. You will be responsible for creating and managing a multi-year research and development and engineering maintenance budget, ensuring resources are developed, allocated and prioritised. You will contribute directly on technical matters and support your small global team of engineering leaders as they do the same. You will be accountable for the technical sign-off of the small engines range, including safety, compliance, and performance. This role is a critical part of the small engines’ leadership team, and it will challenge you, but is also very rewarding as you be able to directly see how your efforts support our customers, our business, and our teams.
Additional Info
- Travel will be required from time to time, up to around 10%
What You Will Do
Define and manage the long-term technical product development strategy for small engines
Direct the engineering function supporting new product introduction programmes, current product health projects, cost reduction projects, supplier validation and product regulatory compliance
Accountable for all aspects of technical and engineering development of the small engines range
Create and manage a multi-year research and development and engineering maintenance budget
Ensure engineering resources are developed, allocated and prioritised to support the small engines business
Manage technical issues and matters, either directly, or through your team of engineering leaders
Be an active member of the small engines leadership team, contributing to the broader context and supporting the success of the small engines business
What You Have
Technical Excellence: Knowledge of internal combustion engines or similar components and systems; ability to develop and provide solutions to significant technical challenges:
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, analysing, and providing superior technical solutions to business problems
Provides effective solutions to 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
Decision-making and Critical Thinking : Knowledge of the decision-making process and associated tools and techniques; ability to accurately analyse situations and reach productive decisions based on informed judgment:
Differentiates assumptions, perspectives, and historical frameworks
Evaluates past decisions for insights to improve decision making process
Assesses and validates decision options and points and predicts their potential impact
Advises others in analysing and synthesising relevant data and assessing alternatives
Uses effective decision-making approaches such as consultative, command, or consensus
Ensures that assumptions and received wisdom are objectively analysed in decisions
Customer/Market Focus: Understanding of the importance of remaining aware of shifting market and regulatory priorities, with the ability to respond to internal and external customer needs in a manner that consistently adds value:
Recommends new products and services based on changing customer needs and success criteria
Responds proactively to market and competitive shifts so as to maintain advantage
Delivers superior customer value consistently and within targets
Negotiates successful outcomes on behalf of difficult or dissatisfied customers
Coaches others to improve focus on the customer
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:
Develops, refines, and communicates tactical plans for own responsibilities
Provides the right level of detail as input for strategic plan development, and owns the technical product development strategy
Demonstrates the value and necessity of linking tactical plans to overall strategic plan
Ensures attention to the detail and dependencies of existing departmental plans
Plans for allocation of resources in line with unit goals, technical and business objectives
Ensures the planning process is integrated with the overall business plan
Collaborating Globally: Knowledge of effective collaboration techniques and ability to build networks with people from different countries and cultures, think and work with them to bring positive impact and flourishing business results:
Evaluates different viewpoints and reconciles conflicting interests to achieve a collective understanding and a group mission
Provides optimum solutions for complex problems by using collective intelligence of colleagues' networks
Trains others on the new technologies or techniques used to facilitate group interactions and improve collaboration
Uses internal and external network of leaderships or experts to help achieve organisational goals
Facilitates group's thinking and brainstorming activities to collectively create and share ideas
Oversees a team collaboration to produce positive business results
What You Will Get
The next Senior Engineering Manager - Small Engines will become a key part of an exciting leadership team, responsible for developing technically challenging and interesting products in a fast-moving business environment and with clear connections to the broader business and our customers. Our team is intentionally diverse and global in nature, and we strive to create an environment where everyone can be themselves and feel fulfilled at work. The role provides an ideal opportunity for a technically capable person to broaden their experiences within the engineering function, in the leadership of a small team and by forming connections with the broader business. While technical experience of internal combustion engines would be ideal, we would also like to encourage applicants with experience in adjacent components or systems.
About Caterpillar
Caterpillar Inc. is the world’s leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, off-highway diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines and diesel-electric locomotives. For nearly 100 years, we’ve been helping customers build a better, more sustainable world and are committed and contributing to a reduced-carbon future. Our innovative products and services, backed by our global dealer network, provide exceptional value that helps customers succeed.
NB. The panel cannot make assumptions when shortlisting therefore please demonstrate your qualifications and experience on your CV relevant to the criteria outlined.
Pending the number of applications, the criteria for the position may be enhanced to facilitate shortlisting. #LI-Hybrid
Posting Dates:
April 16, 2024 - April 30, 2024
Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EEO).
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