Performance/Simulation/Application Engineering Specialist

This Project Lead role will be responsible for leading projects focused on the evaluation and introduction of alternate aftertreatment components into existing solutions. The role will lead projects from initial opportunity identification through technical evaluation, validation, and successful factory implementation. This includes understanding system interactions, evaluating technical tradeoffs, developing validation plans, and working through issues that arise as solutions are developed and implemented. The position will work closely with engineering experts, purchasing, suppliers, quality, manufacturing, and product groups to ensure solutions meet Caterpillar

for performance, quality, reliability, cost, and manufacturability. This role combines hands-on technical execution with project leadership and provides the opportunity to deliver solutions that improve cost competitiveness, supply continuity, and flexibility across our products.

• ◆Develop project scope to address business challenges and opportunities
• ◆Coordinating resources across the businesses with sales and marketing, product development groups, value chain and manufacturing
• ◆Overseeing project progress and costs; communicating status with stakeholders and participating functional areas; addressing and resolving problems

• ✓Products and Services: Extensive knowledge of major products and services and product and service groups; ability to apply knowledge of product and service appropriately to diverse situations.
• ✓Technical Excellence: Extensive knowledge of a given technology and various application methods; ability to develop and provide solutions to significant technical challenges.
• ✓Influencing Through Expertise: Extensive 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.
• ✓Project Management: Expert level 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.

Analysis: Extensive knowledge of tools, methods, and techniques of requirement analysis; ability to elicit, analyze and record required business functionality and non-functionality

to ensure the success of a system or software development project.

• ✓Troubleshooting Technical Problems: Extensive knowledge of troubleshooting approaches, tools and techniques; ability to anticipate, detect and resolve technical problems in a manufacturing or product management environment.
• ✓Product Design and Development: Extensive knowledge of product features; ability to design, build, and develop a new product, technology, or service from concept through to production.