Power Systems Engineering Manager - Electric Power

Career Area:

Product Support

Job Description:

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. We don't just talk about progress and innovation here – we make it happen, with our customers, where we work and live. Together, we are building a better world, so we can all enjoy living in it.

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 centers, 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. Join our team to help build a better, more sustainable world for future generations!

Job Summary:

As a Power Systems Engineer (PSE) Manager, you will lead a talented team of engineers in designing modernization upgrades and retrofits for advanced automated switchgear systems. You’ll collaborate closely with the AES Engineering Manager and PSE Team Leads to ensure technical excellence and project alignment. Your role bridges engineering and project management, driving coordination around schedules, challenges, and deliverables. You’ll also work with the AES Scheduling Engineer to synchronize engineering and production timelines for seamless execution.

What You Will Do:

• Manage staffing, development, and performance of a PSE engineering team.

• Support PSE engineering team with project execution (design review, schematic review, component testing, verifying and adjusting automation programming).

• Monitor PSE engineering team projects (quality, costing, profitability, and timeliness).

• Provide specialized engineering technical support and consulting services to various areas of the organization.

• Manage high-impact, short and long duration engineering initiatives; ensuring quality of automation products and projects.

• Design, modify, develop, write and implement software-programming for generator control switchgear automation applications.

• Configure, program and test automation hardware.

What Skills You Will Have:

• Effective Communications: Working knowledge and 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.

  • Delivers helpful feedback that focuses on behaviors without offending the recipient.

  • Listens to feedback without defensiveness and uses it for own communication effectiveness.

  • Makes oral presentations and writes reports needed for own work.

  • Avoids technical jargon when inappropriate.

  • Looks for and considers non-verbal cues from individuals and groups.

• Consulting: Working knowledge of techniques, roles, and responsibilities in providing technical or business guidance to clients, both internal and external; ability to apply consulting knowledge appropriately.

  • Explains the requirements, deliverables, costs, and criticalities of the assignment.

  • Participates in developing consulting opportunities or assignments.

  • Uses formal and informal means to keep client informed on progress and issues.

  • Carries out the agreed-upon consulting assignment in a professional manner.

  • Documents client's objectives and project scope.

• Problem Solving: Extensive experience and knowledge of approaches, tools, techniques for recognizing, anticipating, and resolving complicated technical problems; ability to apply knowledge of problem solving appropriately to diverse situations.

  • Ensures capture of lessons to be learned from a problem-solving effort.

  • Organizes potential problem solvers and leads problem resolution efforts.

  • Uses varying problem-solving approaches and techniques as appropriate.

  • Contributes to standard practices for problem-solving approaches, tools, and processes.

  • Analyzes and synthesizes information and devises alternative resolution strategies.

  • Develops successful resolutions to critical or wide-impact problems.

• Decision Making and Critical Thinking: Extensive experience and knowledge of the decision-making process and associated tools and techniques; ability to accurately analyze situations and reach productive decisions based on informed judgment.

  • Differentiates assumptions, perspectives, and historical frameworks.

  • Evaluates past decisions for insights to improve decision-making process.

  • Assesses and validates decision options and points and predicts their potential impact.

  • Advises others in analyzing and synthesizing relevant data and assessing alternatives.

  • Uses effective decision-making approaches such as consultative, command, or consensus.

  • Ensures that assumptions and received wisdom are objectively analyzed in decisions.

• Technical Excellence: Extensive experience and knowledge of automation technology and various application methods; ability to develop and provide solutions to complex implementation challenges.

  • Advises others on the assessment and provision of all technical solutions.

  • Engages appropriate subject matter resources to effectively resolve technical issues.

  • Mentors others to enhance their technical competence and its application to achieve more effective technical solutions.

  • Coaches others in promoting, defining, analyzing, and providing superior technical solutions to business problems.

  • Provides effective solutions to challenging technical challenges through strong technical competence, effectively examining implications of events and issues.

  • Assumes accountability for personal technical performance and holds others responsible for theirs.

• Managing People: Basic understanding and knowledge of processes involved in managing people; ability to lead successful teams, and diligently address issues related to performance and conflicts at the workplace.

  • Describes the general processes and procedures involved in people management.

  • Identifies the needs of the organization and employees; matches them to appropriate solutions.

  • Lists major activities performed in managing people at the workplace.

  • Understands relevant systems, tools, and resources required for managing people.

Additional Requirements:

• PLC Software Expertise including Modicon/Schneider Electric, Rockwell/Allen Bradley, and Codesys platforms.

• HMI Software Proficiency with tools such as Factory Talk, RSView, Vijeo, Crimson, Kepware, Applicom, and EcoStruxure Machine SCADA Expert.

• Microsoft Office Skills, particularly in Word, Excel, and Outlook.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or Materials Science from an accredited institution, along with 3-5 years of relevant experience; equivalent experience may also be considered.

• Valid driver’s license and a clean driving record.

Additional Information:

• This position requires the candidate to work a 5-day-a-week schedule in the office.

• Travel required: 10 – 20% (estimated), to support jobsite technical escalation and safety audits

• Domestic relocation assistance is available

• Sponsorship is NOT available

This Job Description is intended as a general guide to the job duties for this position and is intended for the purpose of establishing the specific salary grade. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as an exhaustive summary of all responsibilities, duties and effort required of employees assigned to this job.

At the discretion of management, this description may be changed at any time to address the evolving needs of the organization. It is expressly not intended to be a comprehensive list of “essential job functions” as that term is defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Summary Pay Range:

$110,520.00 - $165,840.00

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. This employer is not currently hiring foreign national applicants that require or will require sponsorship tied to a specific employer, such as, H, L, TN, F, J, E, O. As a global company, Caterpillar offers many job opportunities outside of the U.S which can be found through our employment website at www.caterpillar.com/careers.

Posting Dates:

August 21, 2025 - September 1, 2025

Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen.

Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer, Including Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities. Qualified applicants of any age are encouraged to apply.

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