Director Engineering

The Engineering Director leads manufacturing engineering/technical services, process maintenance, and facilities engineering to deliver safe, reliable, efficient, and high-quality operations across machining, heat treat, assembly, and supporting infrastructure. The role develops technical teams and drives continuous improvement through lean methods, operational excellence, equipment reliability, and data-driven problem solving to improve safety, quality, delivery, cost, and asset performance. 

The position also owns capital deployment, new process introduction, process maintenance strategy, and facilities engineering priorities, including planning, justification, installation, sustainment, and launch of manufacturing technologies, equipment, utilities, and facility systems. Working cross-functionally, the Engineering Director sets manufacturing and infrastructure standards, builds technical capability, improves equipment availability and facility readiness, and advances productivity, capacity, reliability, and long-term competitiveness. 

What you will do: 

• Managing the engineering staff and activities with an emphasis on organizational goals achievement, professional development and continuous improvement. 

• Monitoring and continuously improving product and process performance, quality and cost-effectiveness for all engineering activities and deliverables. 

• Providing leadership to create and maintain processes used to design, develop and manufacture components, systems, products, services, and technologies. 

• Managing engineering product and manufacturing process or quality issues, from concept through end of life-cycle. 

Degree Requirement: 

Degree required, Engineering degree preferred 

Skills you must have: 

Planning: Tactical, Strategic: Expert 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. 

Influencing Through Expertise: Expert knowledge of effective influencing tactics and strategies; ability to use these to deepen own expertise and 

impact or challenge decisions within and outside own organization. 

Top candidates will also have: 

• Capital project management experience 

• Demonstrated direct and/or indirect leadership capabilities as a leader of leaders 

What you will get: 

• A commitment to diversity and inclusion. Our common values and focus on inclusion and respect drive the decisions made by our company, teams, and people. Here, you can apply your unique life and job experiences, and work in a team environment where your ideas are heard, your contributions are celebrated, and your whole-self matters.  

• 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) 

Additional Information:  

• Travel requirements may be less than 10%. 

• This position is located in Pontiac, IL 

• Domestic relocation is available. 

• VISA Sponsorship is not available 

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.