NPI Team Leader

About the role

Career Area: Engineering

About the role

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Caterpillar's BCP division is hiring NPI Team Leader in the Telehandler Engineering Team in Clayton, NC!

Role Summary

In this role you will manage multiple or complex New Product Introduction projects supporting the Telehandler product line involving multiple functions or sites. This will entail all facets of New Product Introduction including Strategy, Viability, Execution, and Production Implementation.

What You'll Do (Job Duties)

• Coordinating with the businesses, sales, marketing, and platform groups to manage resources for each deliverable within the project.
• Overseeing project progress and costs; communicating status with stakeholders and participating functional areas; addressing and resolving problems.
• Influencing project staffing; motivating and developing project team and team members
• Communicating with customers and managing expectations; ensuring effective use of project controls and reporting mechanisms.
• Establishing program timelines and creating project management plans to track all cross functional activities and key milestones.
• Creating program investment forecasts, including expense and capital requirements.
• Establishing program quality targets and ensuring appropriate governance exists to track and resolve issues for all cross functional areas.

What You Have (Core Skills)

• Degree: Bachelor's degree in engineering or related fields and/or extensive experience.
• Products and Services: Knowledge of major products and services and product and service groups; ability to apply knowledge of product and service appropriately to diverse situations. This will assist in informed decision making throughout projects.
• Quality Management: Knowledge of quality management methods, tools, and techniques and ability to create and support an environment that meets the quality goals of the organization. This will support thorough issue governance for tracking and resolving problems across all functional areas.
• Effective Communications: Understanding of effective communication concepts, tools and techniques; ability to effectively transmit, receive, and accurately interpret ideas, information, and needs through the application of appropriate communication behaviors. This will support communicating across a diverse NPI team as well as articulating key messages clearly and concisely in NPI Gateway reviews.
• Problem Solving: Knowledge of approaches, tools, techniques for recognizing, anticipating, and resolving organizational, operational or process problems; ability to apply knowledge of problem solving appropriately to diverse situations. This will provide structure to resolving a wide array of issues encountered during product and process development projects and allow thorough resolution.
• Customer Service Management: Knowledge of customer service priorities and ability to utilize tools and techniques for maintaining an environment where all understand and are committed to providing excellent service to internal and external customers. This will ensure projects deliver with a Customer Back mindset to help our customers solve their toughest challenges.
• Program Management: Knowledge of the policies and techniques to manage a set of related projects within a program; ability to plan, organize, monitor, and control the set of projects, ensuring efficient utilization of technical and administrative resources to achieve program objectives. This will help keep the project on track by highlighting specific issues and roadblocks to delivery.

Top Candidates Will Also Have

• Nice to have Telehandler product knowledge
• Nice to have previous experience in the Telehandler Trident NPI program
• Experience with multiple NPI cycles in previous roles
• Experience working with global teams

Additional Details

• Work location: NC-Clayton-Machine Development Center
• Domestic relocation assistance is available for this role
• Visa sponsorship is NOT available for this role.
• Travel: up to 25% domestic and international
• This position requires 5 days per week in the office (M-F)

Summary Pay Range

$147,760.00 - $221,640.00

Compensation and benefits offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, job level, market location, job-related knowledge, skills, individual performance and experience. Please note that salary is only one component of total compensation at Caterpillar.

Benefits

Subject to plan eligibility, terms, and guidelines. This is a summary list of 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

• This position requires working onsite five days a week.
• Relocation is available for this position.
• Visa Sponsorship is not available for this position.
• Posting Dates: November 12, 2026 - November 30, 2026
• Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen.
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