Senior Project Engineer

at  Caterpillar

ABOUT EPD

Caterpillar’s Electric Power Division (EPD) offers integrated solutions, parts, and services to meet the needs of our various commercial and industrial electric power customers. EPD supports a wide range of customer applications across the globe, including providing back-up power to hospitals, providing emergency power when natural disasters strike, and supporting critical infrastructure for data centres, municipalities, and more.
With a rich history of more than 95 years in the electric power business, our team has world-class expertise and a proven ability to adapt to changing demands. We’re committed to providing sustainable and reliable solutions to our customers.
We are looking for top talent to build and scale the next generation of technologies, products and service. We need self-motivated, intelligent and team-oriented individuals to make our plans a reality. Individuals with high emotional intelligence, humility and openness to discovery will thrive in the teams we are building. Join our team to help build a better, more sustainable world for future generations!

THE OPPORTUNITY

We are looking for a Senior Project Engineer to join our team at Caterpillar (N.I.) situated at Larne. This is an excellent opportunity to play a key role within the Caterpillar Electric Power project team.
This role provides a great opportunity for a Senior Project Engineer to manage multiple complex Electric Power projects from conception through to completion. This is a highly collaborative role where you will work alongside project teams across engineering, supply chain, procurement and commissioning to ensure projects are completed in time and to a high standard.

What you will do :

• Provide leadership to the project team(s) executing all the project activities related to the fiscal reporting, engineering, procurement, purchasing, logistics, quality, EHSS, site technical assistance and commissioning of LEP Solutions projects.
• Understand the project technical and commercial requirements, local conditions, statutory requirements.
• Develop project schedule, project costing and manage document control
• Collaborate with our dealers in managing Customer change orders, facilitating the project team in making sound technical and commercial assessments and decisions.
• Develop the risk identification and risk mitigation strategies, jointly working with team members and dealers on projects.
• Assist the dealer project team in the development and execution of the project execution strategy, tactics and transactional activities.
• Practice and manage regular communications and reporting with team members, dealers, customers and management.
• Leverage Functional Area Leaders and team members alike to solve business problems to ensure project objectives and requirements are met. Escalate issues to management when those problems can’t be solved within the project teams.
• Support the factory Quality Engineer and Dealer site team in closing project site ‘punch list’ items
• Institutionalise process excellence and lessons learned disciplines by conducting ‘lessons learned’ meeting with all Functional Area Leaders and responsible dealer after system turnover to end user.

What you will do :

• Provide leadership to the project team(s) executing all the project activities related to the fiscal reporting, engineering, procurement, purchasing, logistics, quality, EHSS, site technical assistance and commissioning of LEP Solutions projects.
• Understand the project technical and commercial requirements, local conditions, statutory requirements.
• Develop project schedule, project costing and manage document control
• Collaborate with our dealers in managing Customer change orders, facilitating the project team in making sound technical and commercial assessments and decisions.
• Develop the risk identification and risk mitigation strategies, jointly working with team members and dealers on projects.
• Assist the dealer project team in the development and execution of the project execution strategy, tactics and transactional activities.
• Practice and manage regular communications and reporting with team members, dealers, customers and management.
• Leverage Functional Area Leaders and team members alike to solve business problems to ensure project objectives and requirements are met. Escalate issues to management when those problems can’t be solved within the project teams.
• Support the factory Quality Engineer and Dealer site team in closing project site ‘punch list’ items
• Institutionalise process excellence and lessons learned disciplines by conducting ‘lessons learned’ meeting with all Functional Area Leaders and responsible dealer after system turnover to end user