Engineering Manager (Peoria, IL, 61650) | 09/23/26 Job Description Key Responsibilities

Leadership & People Management

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of manufacturing, mechanical, and product engineering professionals.
  
• Manage employee performance, career development, staffing plans, and resource allocation.
  
• Foster a culture of accountability, customer focus, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
  
• Ensure team members are positioned for success through coaching, training, and leadership development.
  
• Support recruiting, onboarding, and retention of high-performing engineering talent.
  Customer Relationship Management
  
• Serve as a primary leadership interface for Caterpillar engineering and manufacturing stakeholders.
  
• Build and maintain strong relationships with customer leadership teams across multiple business units.
  
• Act as a trusted advisor capable of understanding customer challenges and aligning engineering solutions to business needs.
  
• Lead customer reviews, operational discussions, issue resolution, and strategic planning sessions.
  Business Growth & Account Expansion
  
• Identify, qualify, and pursue opportunities for expanded engineering services within Caterpillar.
  
• Partner with sales, account management, and delivery teams to develop growth strategies.
  
• Drive organic account expansion across manufacturing engineering, mechanical engineering, product engineering, supply chain, quality, and related engineering services.
  
• Support proposal development, SOW creation, pricing strategies, and customer presentations.
  
• Develop and maintain a healthy pipeline of opportunities within assigned business areas.
  Delivery & Operational Excellence
  
• Ensure successful execution of engineering projects while maintaining quality, schedule, and budget objectives.
  
• Monitor project performance and proactively address delivery risks.
  
• Drive utilization, productivity, customer satisfaction, and operational excellence metrics.
  
• Coordinate resources across onsite and global delivery teams.
  
• Support continuous improvement initiatives and best practice deployment.
  Required Qualifications
  
• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or related technical discipline.
  
• 10+ years of experience in manufacturing, mechanical, or product engineering environments.
  
• 5+ years of experience leading engineering teams and managing technical personnel.
  
• Proven customer-facing leadership experience within an engineering services organization.
  
• Demonstrated success growing engineering services business within existing customer accounts.
  
• Direct experience supporting or working with Caterpillar is required.
  
• Strong understanding of manufacturing engineering, mechanical engineering, product development, industrial operations, and engineering service delivery models.
  
• Experience leading teams supporting large industrial or heavy equipment manufacturers.
  
• Excellent communication, presentation, and executive relationship management skills.
  Preferred Qualifications
  
• Experience working within engineering services organizations supporting OEMs or industrial manufacturing clients.
  
• Familiarity with Caterpillar engineering and manufacturing processes, systems, and organizational structure.
  
• Experience managing onsite and offshore/global delivery teams.
  
• Program management, operational leadership, or P&L management experience.
  
• Knowledge of product development, manufacturing operations, quality engineering, supply chain engineering, and digital manufacturing initiatives.

Customer Relationship Management, People Leadership & Team Development, Business Development & Account Growth, Manufacturing Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Strategic Planning, Program & Project Management, Executive Communication, Resource Management, Problem Solving & Decision Making, Operational Excellence, Customer Satisfaction & Relationship Growth, Revenue Growth within the Caterpillar Account, Team Engagement, Retention & Employee Engineering Manager1 United States