Project Manager-1

**Career Area**:Administrative Support
**As part of the broader Longwall Go-to-Market team, the Project Management team is the de-facto champion for every Australian customer/dealer capital order, providing leadership to project team(s) in the planning and execution all the activities required to deliver a successful project, on time, within budget and to the customer’s satisfaction. Central to the role is establishing and managing the relationship interfaces between the project team, our dealers, and their customers.

The role will focus on providing leadership to the project team(s) executing all the project activities related to the engineering, procurement, purchasing, logistics, quality, site technical assistance and commissioning of Longwall capital projects. The individual will seek to:

- 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 their project execution strategy, tactics, and transactional activities.

**Critical to success in the role, the individual will**:

- Practice and manage regular communications and reporting with team members, dealers, customers, and management. **_Communicate. With excellence. No matter how challenging that may be _**
- Leverage Functional Area Leaders and team members alike to solve business problems to ensure project objectives and requirements are met. Document and resolve local issues using local project resources and working relationships where possible, holding project team members responsible to make the project successful.
- Support the factory Quality Engineers and Dealer teams in closing project site ‘punch list’ items
- Institutionalize process excellence and lessons learned disciplines by conducting ‘lessons learned’ meeting(s) with all Functional Area Leaders and responsible dealer after system turnover to end user.
- Escort customer visits, witness tests, and inspections

This role will also contribute to promoting and driving continuous improvement of project management processes through the development of collaborative relationships amongst the Longwall work group, with customers, suppliers, and other cross functional groups.

**Basic Requirements**:

- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or related technical degree or at least 10 years job related experience in lieu of degree
- Knowledge of Caterpillar Solutions Business or similar industrial equipment
- Previous advanced project/program management experience, including the use of MS Project or similar project management software.
- Demonstrated leadership potential, with clear evidence of accountability and acting with a sense of urgency
- Experience working with our dealers and/or end customers
- Significant progressively responsible job-related experience including (but not limited to) sales, operations, technical and supervisory assignments.
- Strong verbal and written English skills, with experience of presenting technical and commercial proposals & trade-offs to stakeholder groups.
- Excellent interpersonal skills at all levels both inside and outside the department, together with a strong customer focus.

Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EEO).

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