Site Planning, Verification, and Validation Engineering Manager

## Site Planning, Verification, and Validation Engineering Manager Apply locations:
Mossville, Illinois time type:
Full time posted on:
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** Career Area:
** Engineering
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* Job Description:

**** Your Work Shapes the World at Caterpillar Inc.
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Together, we are building a better world, so we can all enjoy living in it.
** Position Summary
** The Engineering Manager for Site Planning, Verification, and Validation (SPVV) will lead a multi-disciplinary team responsible for ensuring that Site Energy Solutions technologies meet the highest standards of reliability, durability, and performance in real-world applications.

This role combines deep technical expertise with strong people leadership to define and execute validation strategies across laboratory and field-follow test environments. The SPVV Manager will be accountable for developing robust validation plans, designing test methodologies, and ensuring that products are thoroughly verified prior to deployment and production.

A critical aspect of this role is fostering a culture of safety, quality, and continuous improvement, while partnering cross-functionally to accelerate innovation and ensure successful product delivery.
** Key Responsibilities
**** People Leadership & Team Development
*** Build, lead, and develop a high-performing engineering ream focused on site planning, verification, and validation
* Set clear goals, expectations, and development plans aligned with organizational priorities
* Foster a culture of technical excellence, accountability, collaboration, and continuous learning
* Recruit, mentor, and retain top engineering talent across validation, testing, and analysis disciplines
* Promote a strong safety-first mindset and ensure team adherence to all safety protocols and best practices
* 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.
** Validation Strategy & Testing
*** Define and execute comprehensive validation strategies to ensure system performance, reliability, and durability across diverse applictions and operating conditions
* Ensure the creation of scalable, repeatable, and data-driven test methodologies supporting development and deployment
* Oversee both laboratory and field-follow validation activities, including test site planning and readiness
* Drive continuous improvement of validation processes, tools, and infrastructure
* Communicates complex ideas and concepts in a clear and concise manner so that others can understand.
* Exhibits depth and breadth of knowledge, skill, and experience in the relevant field.
* Provides relevant, timely and objective subject matter/process expertise and key insight regarding multiple client business areas and affiliated fields.
** Root Cause Analysis & Issue Resolution
*** Lead structured root cause analysis efforts for system failures, performance gaps, and field-follow issues
* Utilize data-driven methods and engineering rigor (e.g., DFMEA, fault tree analysis) to identify and resolve issues
* Partner with design, systems, and manufacturing teams to implement corrective and preventative actions
* Ensure lessons learned are captured and integrated into future designs and validation plans
* Adapts standard communication approaches when conducting dialogue with different audiences or conveying messages
* Explains others' view points and asks questions to ensure mutual understanding.
** Stakeholder Management & Cross-Functional Leadership
*** Collaborate closely with engineering, product management, manufacturing, and operations teams to align validation efforts and program objectives
* Act as a key technical interface between internal teams and external partners, suppliers, and customers
* Communicate validation progress, risks, and outcomes to senior leadership with clarity and transparency
* Influence design decisions by providing validation insights and field-follow feedback
* Implements improvements to methods for maintaining customer responsiveness.
* Recommends new products and services based on changing customer needs and success criteria.
** Laboratory & Test Site Safety, Compliance, and Operations
*** Champion a culture of safety as a top organizational priority across all lab and field-follow testing environments
* Ensure all validation activities comply with applicable safety standards, regulations, and internal policies
* Oversee safe operation of laboratory facilities and test sites, including hazard identification, risk mitigation, and incident…