Manager, Engineering – Product Development Testing

Role Overview

• Unify Testing Organization: Utilize change management principles to unify CMDC and SMDC test engineering and instrumentation teams into a single, cohesive, and engaged team.
• Drive alignment and efficient use of resources while keeping the flexibility and responsiveness required during product development.
• Leadership & Team Development: Lead, coach, and develop team leaders, test engineers, and instrumentation technicians. Set clear goals and expectations, with strong coaching and timely performance feedback.
• Drive a safe work environment, lead constructive conflict resolution, and build technical capability and leadership.
• Product Development Testing Excellence: Create an instrumentation and test engineering culture of consistent execution, quality & excellence, continuous improvement, and focus on customer satisfaction.
• Develop supporting resources to enable world class product development (talent, systems, tools, & processes).
• Customer Engagement & Communication: Communicate clearly with leadership; product, system, & technology teams; other stakeholders; and suppliers. Translate customer, stakeholder, and leadership feedback into actionable plans.
• Operational & Project Management: Define and manage overall test plan and timelines based on priority, requirements, capability, and available resources.
• Actively manage execution across all locations and groups, ensuring high quality and timely delivery. Lead improvement projects. Create and maintain budgets.
• Technical Direction & Decision Making: Provide expert technical direction and make informed decisions in all aspects of testing. Use critical thinking to identify and assess risk and improvement opportunities, evaluate alternatives, prioritize and execute.
• Positively influence stakeholder product decisions and direction.
• Cross Functional Partnership: Partner closely with Product Dev. Operations, Facilities, Quality, EHS, and others to align resources, schedules, processes; resolve issues, and ensure responsive, safe, and compliant test execution.
• Collaborate externally and across Caterpillar to effectively influence outcomes.
• Strategic Planning & Capability Building: Set and execute section level strategic direction, manage operating expense budgets, and develop multiyear roadmaps to improve team performance, efficiency, capacity, and cost effectiveness through workload forecasting and investment capability.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related fields.
• Proven people leadership capability, including coaching and mentoring, performance management, talent development, change management, and building engaged, high performing teams across multiple locations.
• Ability to communicate clearly and credibly with teams, leaders, customers, and partners, translating technical results, requirements, and feedback into aligned actions and priorities.
• Strong focus on understanding external customer and internal stakeholder needs and ensuring testing results and recommendations support product requirements, quality expectations, and customer satisfaction.
• Strong capability to assess complex technical and operational situations, evaluate risks and tradeoffs, and make timely, data driven decisions with a clear understanding of downstream impacts.
• Ability to lead day-to-day operations while developing and executing tactical and multi-year plans that align resources, workloads, and investments with business and customer priorities.
• Ability to plan, coordinate, & deliver complex test activities across multiple programs, balancing scope, schedule, cost, & resources.
• Deep technical expertise in product development and testing, enabling sound technical direction, high-quality execution, and continuous improvement of processes, tools, and outcomes.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision benefits*
• Paid time off plan (Vacation, Holidays, Volunteer, etc.)*
• 401(k) savings plans*
• Health Savings Account (HSA)*
• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)*
• Health Lifestyle Programs*
• Employee Assistance Program*
• Voluntary Benefits and Employee Discounts*
• Career Development*
• Incentive bonus*
• Disability benefits
• Life Insurance
• Parental leave
• Adoption benefits
• Tuition Reimbursement * These benefits also apply to part-time employees