Lead Value Engineer

Career Area:

Product Support

Job Description:

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IT IS YOUR TIME

Caterpillar Inc. is the world’s leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, off-highway diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines and diesel-electric locomotives. For nearly 100 years, we’ve been helping customers build a better, more sustainable world and are committed and contributing to a reduced-carbon future. Our innovative products and services, backed by our global dealer network, provide exceptional value that helps customers succeed.

If you are looking for personal and professional growth, in a company with an inclusive culture, which seeks equity, respects differences and believes in people's potential, this is the right place. We consider people with disability candidates and those with diversity in gender, culture, ethnicity, religion, age, generation, race, nationality and sexual orientation.

The Lead Value Engineer is the regional value engineering lead, responsible for building the value case behind Caterpillar's mining technology solutions in AmS. Reporting to the Global Manager, Performance & Value Intelligence, this role establishes value baselines, models future-state performance and sets the customer business case that defines success for every deployment.

In this role, you will apply deep mining operations and mine planning expertise to understand how a customer's operation performs today and quantify the value MineStar™ technologies, including Autonomous Haulage Systems (AHS), Fleet Management, Onboard and Underground solutions, can unlock. You will work with Commercial teams during pursuits, and with regional Customer Value Enablement teams during delivery, to make sure the business case is credible, evidence-based and achievable.

You will work closely with peers in Performance Intelligence and Performance Monitoring to baseline existing operations. You will then apply those insights and benchmarks to assess the value potential of new sites and customers.

What You Will Do

• Lead value engineering for the region, serving as the go-to expert for customer business case analysis across new pursuits and existing customer sites.

• Establish value baselines for customer operations using operational, production, cost and performance data.

• Build value simulations and business case models that quantify the productivity, cost, safety and utilization impact of MineStar technologies.

• Apply mine planning and operational expertise to evaluate haul cycles, fleet sizing, equipment utilization, material movement and operating constraints that drive value.

• Partner with Commercial and Sales teams to shape customer value propositions, support pursuits and provide domain expertise in customer discussions.

• Work with Performance Intelligence and Performance Monitoring peers to baseline existing operations and translate performance insights into benchmarks for future sites.

• Apply global benchmarking from existing deployments to assess value potential and readiness at new and prospective customer sites.

• Define the value targets and assumptions that regional Customer Value Enablement teams use as the definition of success during deployment.

• Support value realization reviews by comparing actual performance to the business case, explaining gaps and recommending what will close them.

• Present value findings and business cases to customer operations, mine planning, finance and executive stakeholders.

• Contribute to global value engineering standards, methods and tools, and share lessons learned across regions.

Scope & Impact

• Regional individual contributor, and the recognized value engineering authority for the region.

• Sets the customer business case that anchors commercial commitments and deployment success.

• Significant engagement with customer operations, mine planning and executive leadership, as well as dealer and Commercial teams.

• Informs where and how Customers will obtain return in their investments with new site deployments by connecting proven perf