Senior Project Engineer

Your Work Shapes the World at Caterpillar Inc. When you join Caterpillar, you're joining a global team who cares not just about the work we do – but also about each other. We are the makers, problem solvers, and future world builders who are creating stronger, more sustainable communities. Together, we are building a better world, so we can all enjoy living in it.

Salary/Grade: £44,100 - £55,123 per annum (depending on experience)

Location: Larne

Benefits:

• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Up to 12% bonus
• Contributory pension scheme - Caterpillar will double the employee's contribution up to 6%
• Contributory share scheme - Caterpillar will match 50% of the employee's contribution
• Optional flexible benefits including access to health and dental care plans, EV car lease, holiday purchase

Flexible working arrangements will be considered for this role, in-line with the needs of the business.

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. We’re committed to providing sustainable and reliable solutions to our customers.

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 have:

• Project Management - Level Extensive Experience: The ability to plan, organize, monitor, and control construction and/or industrial projects, ensuring efficient utilisation of technical and administrative resources to achieve project objectives.
• Managing Multiple Priorities - Level Working Knowledge: The ability to manage multiple concurrent objectives, projects, groups, or activities, making effective judgments as to prioritising and time allocation.
• Requirements Analysis - Level Working Knowledge: Communicates with customers and users to elicit and gather client requirements.
• Flexibility and Adaptability - Level Working Knowledge: The ability to adapt to a changing environment and be comfortable with change.
• Relationship Management - Level Working Knowledge: The ability to establish and maintain healthy working relationships with clients, vendors, and peers.

Additional information: There is some travel maybe required up to 20% of the time. This position is currently a hybrid in-office work model, requiring a 3-day weekly office presence onsite at our Larne office and remote work for the remaining days. However, work arrangements may be adjusted at any time based on business needs.

About Caterpillar: Caterpillar Inc. is the world’s leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, off-highway diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines and diesel-electric locomotives. For nearly 100 years, we’ve been helping customers build a better, more sustainable world and are committed and contributing to a reduced-carbon future.

Posting Dates: March 10, 2025 - March 24, 2025. The panel cannot make assumptions when shortlisting therefore please demonstrate your qualifications and experience on your CV relevant to the criteria outlined.