at Caterpillar, Inc. in Mossville, Illinois, United States
Job Description
Career Area:
Engineering
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.
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.
Job Summary:
The software verification engineering manager plans, directs and leads engineering staff and activities to test embedded machine software to ensure the software meets product group and customer expectations.
What You Will Do:
- Manage the engineering staff and activities with an emphasis on organizational goals achievement, professional development and continuous improvement.
- Provide leadership to create and maintain software verification/validation capabilities through Hardware-in-the-Loop and Software-in-the-Loop testing
- Manage supplier contracts and deliverables associated with verification testing and support
- Maintain hardware-in-the-loop test systems, including management of lab and technicians, including safe job procedures.
- Manage overall section spend to pre-determined affordability limits, adjusting spend and priorities as needed.
Education Requirement:
- Requires a degree in an accredited Engineering, Computer Science, or Materials Science curriculum.
What Skills You Will Have:
Planning: Tactical, Strategic:
- Develops, refines, and communicates tactical plans for the software verification team.
- 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.
- Ensures the planning process is integrated with the overall business plan.
Decision Making and Critical Thinking:
- 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 analyzing and synthesizing relevant data and assessing alternatives.
- Uses effective decision-making approaches such as consultative, command, or consensus.
- Ensures that assumptions and received wisdom are objectively analyzed in decisions.
Technical Excellence:
- 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, analyzing, and providing superior technical solutions to business problems.
- Provides effective solutions to moderate 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.
Drives continuous process improvements through 6 Sigma and Lean principles
Communicating for Impact:
- Analyzes the interests or requirements of the audience; shares only relevant information in a direct and efficient manner.
- Adapts standard communication approaches when conducting dialogue with different audiences or conveying messages.
- Explains others’ view points and asks questions to ensure mutual understanding.
- Recognizes and assesses cues or unstated intentions behind verbal and nonverbal communication.
- Provides persuasive messages using well-reasoned arguments to address audience concerns or reactions.
Managing People:
- Anticipates and manages difficult interpersonal situations and conflicts; resolves them to mutual satisfaction.
- Consults within the team; seeks inputs from subordinates and considers all views while making decisions.
- Implements coaching and mentoring programs to ensure the holistic development of employees.
- Monitors employee morale and satisfaction; recognizes employee contributions and achievements.
- Regularly reviews employee performance and provides constructive feedback.
- Works collaboratively with people from diverse backgrounds; understands their needs and perspectives.
Collaborating Globally:
- 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 organizational and client goals.
- Facilitates group’s thinking and brainstorming activities to collectively create and share ideas.
- Oversees a team collaboration to produce positive business results.
Influencing Through Expertise:
- Communicates complex ideas and concepts in a clear and concise manner so that others can understand.
- Exhibits depth and breadth of knowledge, skill, and experience in the relevant field.
- Provides relevant, timely and objective subject matter/process expertise and key insight regarding multiple client business areas and affiliated fields.
- Provides others with information, opportunities, or resources to develop their skills in the area of expertise.
- Discards examples of persuasive arguments lacking evidentiary support or impact.
- Coaches others to enhance their proficiency regarding the tenets, practices, and examples of the ‘trusted advisor’ credential.
Additional Information
The location for this position is Mossville, IL.
Domestic relocation assistance is available for this position.
This position will require up to 10% travel.
Visa sponsorship is available for this position.
What You Will Get:
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 wage, because we value your performance, we offer a total rewards package that provides:
+ Competitive Base Salary
+ 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)
+ Short and long-term disability coverage
+ Life Insurance
+ Paid parental leave
+ Healthy Lifestyle Programs
+ Employee Assistance Programs
+ Voluntary Benefits (Ex. Accident, Identity Theft Protection)
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