Program Manager - Project Management
Caterpillar

Career Area:
Strategy
Job Description:

Your Work Shapes the World at Caterpillar Inc.

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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:

Electric Power Division (EPD) has an opening for a Program Manager (Project Management) on our Large Electric Power team located in Griffin, GA. In this role, the Program Manager will manage a portfolio of high visibility programs and projects for key end customers and dealers and be responsible for end-to-end project planning and successful project execution.

What you will do:

• Requires experience in Project Management tools and processes, and ability to: facilitate projects, lead critical meetings, develop / validate network diagrams, lead integration and compression sessions.
  
• Overseeing project processes and procedures; monitoring the productivity and performance of the project team.
  
• Managing all aspects of the project portfolio. Setting deadlines, assigning responsibilities, and monitoring and summarizing progress of projects.
  
• Reviewing and ensuring adherence to project materials, deliverables methodologies and procedures.
  
• Preparing and presenting program level reporting for upper management.
  
• Designing, establishing and monitoring the organization's project management goals.
  
• Collaborating with internal and external team members, using a disciplined project management approach, and coaching them on their project-related roles and responsibilities.
  

What you will have:

Degree Requirement: Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience desired

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.

Level Extensive Experience:

• Provides the right level of detail as input for strategic plan development.
  
• Demonstrates the value and necessity of linking tactical plans to overall strategic plan.
  
• Ensures attention to the detail and dependencies of existing departmental-level plans.
  
• Plans for allocation of resources in line with unit goals, technical and business objectives.
  

Flexibility and Adaptability: Knowledge of successful approaches and techniques for dealing with change; ability to adapt to a changing environment and be comfortable with change.

Level Working Knowledge:

• Makes progress in an atmosphere of ambiguity and uncertainty.
  
• Works effectively with unstructured teams, situations, or environments.
  
• Demonstrates willingness to listen to other opinions.
  
• Identifies and considers alternative approaches to situations or problems.
  

Influencing: Knowledge of effective influencing tactics and strategies; ability to impact decisions within and outside own organization.

Level Working Knowledge:

• Develops basic persuasive arguments.
  
• 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:

• 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.
  
• Demonstrates an expectation that there will be ongoing shifts in demands and priorities.
  

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

Level Working Knowledge:

• Communicates to clients regarding expectations of all parties.
  
• Maintains productive, long-term relationships with clients or vendors.
  
• Participates in negotiating the terms of the business relationship.
  
• Creates opportunities to educate support teams on client priorities.
  

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.
  

Requirements Analysis: Knowledge of tools, methods, and techniques of requirement analysis; ability to elicit, analyze and record required business functionality and non-functionality requirements. Competency in MS Project, POL, and/or Power BI reporting.

Level Working Knowledge:

• Follows policies, practices, and standards for determining functional and informational requirements.
  
• Confirms deliverables associated with requirements analysis.
  
• Communicates with customers and users to elicit and gather client requirements.
  
• Participates in the preparation of detailed documentation and requirements.
  

Additional Information:

• This position will sit in Griffin, GA, in a hybrid flexible role.
  
• This position may require up to 25% travel, primarily domestic.
  
• US Domestic relocation assistance is offered for this position.
  
• Visa Sponsorship is not offered for this position.
  

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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Summary Pay Range:
$123,480.00 - $185,280.00
Compensation and benefits offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, job level, market location, job-related knowledge, skills, individual performance and experience. Please note that salary is only one component of total compensation at Caterpillar.

Benefits:

Annual incentive bonus plan*

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

Paid time off plan (Vacation, Holiday, Volunteer, Etc.)

401k savings plan

Health savings account (HSA)

Flexible spending accounts (FSAs)

Disability benefits

Life Insurance

Parental leave

Healthy Lifestyle Programs

Employee Assistance Programs

Voluntary Benefits and Employee Discounts

Tuition Reimbursement

Career Development

*Subject to annual eligibility and incentive plan guidelines .

Posting Dates:
December 10, 2024 - December 19, 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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