Plant Project Engineer

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.

Manufacturing

8/12/26 – 8/26/26

Whether it be groundbreaking products, best in class solutions or creating a lifelong career, you can do the work that matters h a 95-year legacy of quality and innovation and 150 locations in countries around the world, your impact spans the globe. Wherever your passion lies—chemical, electrical, material, mechanical, metallurgical and more—you’ll find a home here. Engineers work in virtually every area of our company.

As a Plant Project Engineer in the Large Power Systems Division at Caterpillar, located in Lafayette, IN, you will have an opportunity to provide the technical expertise, leadership and guidance to ensure the economical design, construction, installation and maintenance of assigned service systems, facilities and equipment, and other large-scope projects associated with Plant Engineering responsibilities.

• Managing Construction projects for Machine Tool Installations
• Familiarity with reinforced Concrete design
• Maintaining standards and specifications, recommending changes to resolve design and construction problems, and writing periodic reports on the progress of the project.
• Providing leadership to other facilities engineers and directing efforts of contract engineering firms.
• Providing design information, reviewing and approving proposals and serving as the primary company contact.
• Estimating costs for equipment, materials and installation as a basis for determining the feasibility of alternatives and return on investment.
• Approving drawings, specifying equipment and writing purchase requisitions.
• Supervising work of outside contractors.
• Acting as a troubleshooter and investigating and determining causes for failure, lack of efficiency and need for repairing or improving systems or equipment.
• Resolving problems in designing the most economical, efficient systems, deciding what or which equipment should be purchased, making recommendations and keeping up-to-date on technical advances in the design field.
• Design of lifting devices
• Technical support for engine handling systems, cranes, structures and manufacturing equipment.
• Creating technical specifications and functions requirements for facilities related projects.

• ABET accredited Engineering or Engineering Technology degree and 3 years of experience as a Facility Engineer/Plant Engineering Supervisor
• CAD proficiency

• Project Management:
  Working knowledge of effective project management strategies and tactics; ability to plan, organize, monitor, and control projects, ensuring efficient utilization of technical and administrative resources to achieve project objectives
• Plant Facilities Management:
  Extensive knowledge of safety measures for physical facilities; ability to maintain, care for and develop commercial and physical facilities.
• Service Excellence:
  Working knowledge of customer service concepts and techniques; ability to meet or exceed customer needs and expectations and provide excellent service in a direct or indirect manner.
• Problem Solving:
  Extensive understanding 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.
• Collaborating:
  Working knowledge of collaborative techniques; ability to work with a variety of individuals and groups in a constructive and collaborative manner.
• Troubleshooting Technical Problems:
  Extensive knowledge of troubleshooting approaches, tools and techniques; ability to anticipate, detect and resolve technical…