Project Consultant

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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

To be the focal point for performing project management tasks across business units (including establishing the goals and developing the projects to support the programs) related to identified programs and is accountable for executing the program, delivering the results and leading implementation teams (as necessary) to achieve agreed upon targets and target dates with required functionality. Responsibilities include the overall success of the program including the establishing of metrics/targets, monitoring progress and reporting status.

Job Duties

Develop programs and communicate high-level strategies/policies to appropriate enterprise personnel.
Where appropriate, gathers voice of the business and process partners and translates into requirements to define the scope of the program, establish metrics and targets. Strategy planning initiatives to support people, process & system transformation. Tracks and provides scorecards related to the program metrics. Provides guidance and prioritization to program teams as needed. Works with program and project teams to provide change management recommendations (communication, learning, and reinforcement plans) to accurately manage expectations of stakeholders throughout development and implementation. When appropriate, individual may sponsor or lead (as a BB alumni) projects.

This position acts as an advisor or consultant to senior management. The incumbent may serve as a company-wide resource on a highly specialized area or serve multiple units in a broader functional area and assist senior management in interpreting and using information provided.

Typical internal customers include the employees in one Division. External contacts include various customers and vendors throughout worldwide markets. The position is challenged to carefully evaluate problems and review many possible solutions before selecting one option. Problems may be complex and can require the incumbent to develop solutions. The incumbent is free to determine the best way to complete job assignments to achieve desired results. Work is reviewed after completion, except in the most complex or high impact situations. Impacts key quality goals including Customer Satisfaction, Continuous Improvement, Timeliness, Accuracy, Efficiency, Cost Savings, Process Quality, etc. The position works to develop innovative processes or methods to best use resources or technology in meeting the quality goals.

Basic Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree

8-10 years of progressively responsible job-related experience

Caterpillar requires the position to have the following license or certification: Black Belt Alumni, Change Management, SAFE Agile methodology, and Project Management.

Top Candidates will also have

The position requires thorough knowledge of company products, product applications or merchandising programs.

An understanding of mechanized claims processing, service data systems and/or dealer operations may be required.

Good human relations skills are required to develop a cooperative work relationship with others inside and outside the department.

Additional Information

The location for this position is Mossville, 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 15% 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

Please frequently check the email associated with your application, including the junk/spam folder, as this is the primary correspondence method. If you wish to know the status of your application – please use the candidate log-in on our career website as it will reflect any updates to your status.

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 .

For more information, visit caterpillar.com. To connect with us on social media, visit caterpillar.com/social-media

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