Project Coordinator

Career Area:

Strategy

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.

Key Responsibilities:

• Cost management:
• ABP/RBM, work with BR/HR and all support teams to develop the budget plan.
• Manage spending and monitor expenditures to ensure alignment with budgetary targets.
• SWP (strategic workforce plan, collaborate with manufacturing team to workout HC and OT plan).
• Efficiency calculation and drive improvement actions.
• Cost rate monitoring.
• Support BR to develop the annual SPC/NPC.
• Raw material cost reduction opportunities identification and collaborate with site purchase to drive price reduction.
• Monitor raw material cost trend and identify the abnormal price variance.
• Coordinates engineering releasing activities between engineering design areas and procurement/scheduling with effective and timely implementation.
• Creating, maintaining, and communicating accurate change management data at both the local and corporate level through data entry in multiple management information systems.
• Analyzing engineering releases, changes, drawing notices to create change management requirements, providing the creation of product structure based on engineering design.
• Maintaining close team relationships with releasing analysts, as well as teams in manufacturing operations, process planning, engineering design, and material planning.
• Purchase requisitions (PRs) management:
• Enter bidding requests into the GEP system and follow up on bidding progress.
• Submit bidding waiver requests as needed.
• Release purchase requisitions (PR) in the system to ensure costs are categorized correctly.
• System GR & IR, grief management, drive supplier to release invoice on time.

Contract management: Review contract details, obtain approval, and archive according to compliance requirements

Key Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree or above; Project management or engineering preferred.
• Proficient in MS Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Project) with strong data analysis capabilities.
• Be skilled in Power Bi, SQL, Python, or other tools for data processing and visualization.
• Good English reading and writing skills. Good oral English is a plus.
• Strong adaptability. Excellent communication and coordination skills and willing to learn.

Skill Descriptors

Business Acumen: Knowledge of business concepts, tools, and processes that are needed for making sound decisions in the context of the company's business; ability to apply this knowledge appropriately to diverse situations.

Level Basic Understanding:

• Works to understand the business priorities of internal and external clients.
• Describes profitability drivers and considerations.
• Describes desired or actual business results in measurable scales or terms.
• Explains how the organization makes money.

Planning: Tactical, Strategic: Knowledge of effective planning techniques and ability to contribute to operational (short term), tactical (1-2 years) and strategic (3-5 years) planning in support of the overall business plan.

Level Working Knowledge:

• Contributes to short-term operational plans.
• Anticipates and adapts to plan changes.
• Monitors progress of work against plan as required to meet objectives.
• Reports variances and makes agreed-upon corrections.
• Under guidance, develops tactical plan for own direct responsibility.

Process Management: Knowledge of business process improvement tools and techniques; ability to understand, monitor, update, control, or enhance existing business or work processes.

Level Basic Understanding:

• Interprets process flow diagrams.
• Explains differences between a process and a project.
• Identifies process management initiatives in own area.
• Describes key business processes in own area.

Collaborating: Knowledge of collaborative techniques; ability to work with a variety of individuals and groups in a constructive and collaborative manner.

Level Basic Understanding:

• Demonstrates a basic understanding of the concept of collaborative processes.
• Explains the concept of collaboration as applicable to organizations.
• Provides examples of how collaboration has helped achieve organizational goals.
• Contrasts collaborative with competitive operating styles in organizations.

Effective Communications: 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.

Level Working Knowledge:

• 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.

Problem Solving: Knowledge of approaches, tools, techniques for recognizing, anticipating, and resolving organizational, operational or process problems; ability to apply knowledge of problem solving appropriately to diverse situations.

Level Basic Understanding:

• Explains the value of a disciplined approach to problem solving.
• Describes problem reporting and escalation practices.
• Utilizes accepted procedures for problem analysis and resolution.
• Identifies key aspects of problem-solving techniques used in own area.

Data Gathering and Reporting: Knowledge of tools, techniques and processes for gathering and reporting data; ability to practice them in a particular department or division of a company.

Level Basic Understanding:

• Identifies the key objectives of gathering data.
• Describes alternative data-gathering techniques and tools.
• Applies basic data-gathering methodologies.
• Identifies key sources of needed information.

Additional Information:

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

Posting Dates:

十一月 4, 2025 - 十一月 18, 2025

Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer.  Qualified applicants of any age are encouraged to apply

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