at Caterpillar, Inc. in Peoria, Illinois, United States
Job Description
Career Area:
Administrative Support
Job Description:
Your Work Shapes the World
Whether it be groundbreaking products, best in class solutions or creating a lifelong career, you can do the work that matters at Caterpillar. With a 95-year legacy of quality and innovation and 150 locations in countries around the world, your impact spans the globe.
When you join Caterpillar, you are joining a team of makers, innovators, and doers. We are the people who roll up our sleeves and do the work to build a better world. We don’t just talk about progress and innovation. We make it happen. And we are proud of that, because it helps our customers build and power the world we live in – the roads, hospitals, homes, and infrastructure. Without a dedicated workforce Caterpillar could not effectively meet our customer’s needs. Join us.
Description
A project management professional committed to delivering programs on-time, within budget and to specification by improving the effectiveness of project teams through the application of professionally accepted program and project management methods, techniques, tools, and training. Provides expertise in specific areas of program and project management processes to ensure the most efficient and cost effective implementation of products and services.
Job Duties
This position is the role of a fully capable project management professional. The incumbent has project management experience. He/she manages projects that have some R&D value, are moderately complex in nature, and will require some supervision. This is a staff position that requires a foundational understanding of program and project management tools & processes. The incumbent will have the ability to facilitate project teams, will lead chartering sessions with assistance, will develop network diagrams, and will help lead integration & compression sessions. Work assignments may be specialized in nature but may also require some coordination between other staff personnel needed for larger and more complex programs.
Specific work assignments may be as follows: Coordinate with Program Managers in scheduling and support program control meetings & compression sessions. Incumbent can make schedule changes/corrections during control meetings and compression sessions. Supports Program Manager in facilitating update meetings, maintains program level issues/action logs, risk registers/FMEAs, scope change requests/logs, program work plans, program cost tracking, and provides workshop planning, execution and follow-up assistance. Create accurate and detailed schedules with occasional follow-up by Program Management Manager. The incumbent captures project information, and with periodic assistance from the project team interprets, identifies relationships between activities, analyzes data from schedule updates, and works with project team members to resolve logic errors. Helps explain changes due to updates; will occasionally recommend actions to resolve schedule problems, and updates plan accordingly based on actions taken by team to resolve schedule problems. Conduct detail-planning meetings with some supervision. The incumbent possesses the ability to work with functional areas to develop their detailed activities and schedule. Provides recommendations to project team needed to increase accuracy of program and project schedules, provides guidance to team in understanding and following program and project management standard processes, and works daily with team members to emphasize the importance of the program schedule to be successful in implementing on time, within budget, and at the required quality targets. Provides administrative planning and follow-up for program team, steering committee, and governance review meetings.
The incumbent must be able to interpret and transfer work breakdown structure (WBS) into project management software. Interpret & communicate Voice of Customer (VOC) and Voice of Business (VOB) needs. May create report packages and communicate or post program or project status, may also include maintenance of a program website.
Basic Qualifications
This position requires a four-year college or university degree; a technical focus is highly desirable.
In addition, two to four years of progressive job-related experience in Program Coordination, Information Technology, Project Management, or NPI are typically required.
Should have project management knowledge creating detailed work plans within a PM software including duration-based activities, resource forecasts, and scope.
Very effective interpersonal skills are required including team leadership skills, excellent communication skills, and strong analytical and organizational skills.
Top Candidates will also have
Previous Green Belt experience is a plus.
Additional Information
The location for this position is Peoria, IL
Relocation assistance is not available for this position. Any relocation costs incurred would be the responsibility of the selected candidate.
This position may require up to 25% travel.
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
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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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There’s more to work at Caterpillar than just the work itself. We hire smart, friendly people and it shows in our culture. We hold ourselves to high standards and make sure our values of integrity, excellence, teamwork, commitment and sustainability come to life in the way we work. We make sure our employees feel continuously challenged while also supported. We provide professional growth opportunities, including leadership programs. We celebrate the diversity of our team, while also working together as one Caterpillar.
Our culture, like everything at our company, is made possible by each employee’s contribution. Person by person, we create the environment we work in, and we are proud of the Caterpillar we’ve built.
