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NPI Team Leader - Energy Storage Systemss
NPI Team Leader - Energy Storage Systemss-March 2024
Houston
Mar 30, 2026
About NPI Team Leader - Energy Storage Systemss

  Career Area:

  Engineering

  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.

  We are building the future.

  Whether it be groundbreaking products, best in class solutions or creating a lifelong career, you can do the work that matters at Caterpillar. With a 95-year legacy of quality and innovation and 150 locations in countries around the world, your impact spans the globe.

  Caterpillar’s Electrification & Energy Solutions (E&ES) Division will focus on delivering advanced electrified power train, zero-emissions products/technologies, and the solutions and services associated with these technologies. Focus areas include batteries, fuel cells, motors, inverters, micro grid controllers, charging, energy storage systems, lifecycle solutions/services and integration of components for ePowertrain solutions across industries.

  Join us!

  The NPI Team Leader within the Power Conversion Team will provide program leadership to specific to power conversion systems, focusing on Energy Storage Systems. E+ES's New Product Introduction (NPI) Team Leaders coordinate cross functional teams to solve moderately complex technical problems to create a critical systems on time, within budget, while meeting the job requirements of an internal or external customers. Customer applications include Rail, Oil & Gas, Marine, Electric Power, Construction Industries, and Resource Industries.

  The team leader role accounts for at least 50% of this assignment. The remainder of the time the incumbent will act as an individual contributor providing technical expertise. Role will be responsible for program scope, business case development, team creation and customer requirement definition, product and program cost, timeline management, and product delivery (prototype through production). In addition to these responsibilities the project team leader will serve as the key communicator to customers, process partners, and division executives regarding program progress and status. Strong communication and organizational skills are necessary along with a strategic view due to the emerging project technology within the scope of this role.

  What you will do:

  Accountability program scope, business case development, customer requirement definition, product and program cost, timeline management, and product delivery (prototype through production).

  Responsible for setting the strategy at the project level - scope will vary from a moderate technical focus to a broader, multi-systems focus, and will require broad business understanding.

  Key communicator to customers, process partners and division executives regarding program progress and status

  Manage personal development, continuously learning through experience new business knowledge and skill.

  Spokesperson for the team in meetings with upper management and the customer

  Ability to lead and motivate various teams including facilitating cooperation, enhancing creativity, clearly communicating expectations and requirements, gaining input and feedback from team members to refine processes

  What you have:

  Degree requirement: Bachelor’s Degree

  Program Management: NPI/NTI program management experience. Demonstrated knowledge of the policies and techniques to manage a set of related projects within an energy storage program. Ability to maintain program cadence to meet project deliverables, creating dashboards for programs that detail project plan status, facilitate team meetings to maintain key milestone timelines an address project risk.

  Products and Services: Experience utilizing engineering judgement to help team construct accurate and thorough project plans to achieve key project miletones. Ability to apply knowledge of products and services appropriately in diverse situations.

  Planning: Demonstrated proficiency in project planning and meeting a program timeline

  Effective communication: Proven ability to coordinate high performing, cross functional teams by effectively transmitting, receiving and accurately interpreting ideas, information and needs

  Additional Information

  The location for this position is Mossville, IL Lafayette, IN, Griffin, GA, Houston, TX.

  Hybrid work schedule is available per Caterpillar corporate policy

  Domestic relocation assistance is available for this position

  This position may require 25% travel, but will typically be 10-20%

  Visa sponsorship is not available

  Posting will expire at midnight on Sunday, February 4th

  Employee benefit details

  Our goal at Caterpillar is for you to have a rewarding career. Our teams are critical to the success of our customers who build a better world.

  Here you earn more than just a salary because we value your performance. We offer a total rewards package that provides benefits on day one (medical, dental, vision, RX, and 401K) along with the potential of an annual bonus.

  Additional benefits include paid vacation days and paid holidays (prorated based upon hire date).

  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 .

  EEO/AA Employer. All qualified individuals - Including minorities, females, veterans and individuals with disabilities - are encouraged to apply.

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

  EEO/AA Employer. All qualified individuals - Including minorities, females, veterans and individuals with disabilities - are encouraged to apply.

  Not ready to apply? Join our Talent Community (http://flows.beamery.com/caterpillarinc/talcom) .

  There’s more to work at Caterpillar than just the work itself. We hire smart, friendly people and it shows in our culture. We hold ourselves to high standards and make sure our values of integrity, excellence, teamwork, commitment and sustainability come to life in the way we work. We make sure our employees feel continuously challenged while also supported. We provide professional growth opportunities, including leadership programs. We celebrate the diversity of our team, while also working together as one Caterpillar.

  Our culture, like everything at our company, is made possible by each employee’s contribution. Person by person, we create the environment we work in, and we are proud of the Caterpillar we’ve built.

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