Caterpillar Inc.

Manager

• Leads the definition, governance, and continuous improvement of quality management practices across the Cat® Foresight and Cat® Inspect product portfolio.
• Ensures quality is proactively built into product development, release, and production operations through robust controls, risk identification, and disciplined execution.
• Provides leadership and support to product, engineering, program management, and support teams to prevent defects, improve production stability, and ensure high-confidence delivery of digital products and services.
• Establishes and governs portfolio-wide quality standards, controls, and release readiness criteria to proactively mitigate risk and ensure delivery quality across all modules and capabilities.
• Partners with product, engineering, and program teams to identify quality risks early and integrate mitigation strategies into development and release plans.
• Leads incident response and coordination for quality-related issues, including triage, stakeholder communication, root cause analysis, and corrective/preventive actions.
• Defines, tracks, and analyzes quality metrics (e.g., escaped defects, incident trends, production stability) to drive data-informed decision making and continuous improvement.
• Oversees quality support for critical deliverables, ensuring functional, integration, regression, performance, and operational readiness standards are met.
• Establishes and facilitates quality governance forums, including release readiness reviews, defect management, production health reviews, and post-incident analysis.
• Coordinates with engineering, architecture, and support teams to ensure quality across integrations, APIs, data flows, and cross-product dependencies.
• Drives continuous improvement initiatives focused on defect prevention, testing effectiveness, and operational excellence across the portfolio.
• Ensures alignment with Cat Digital operating models, quality standards, and best practices while influencing adoption across teams.
• Communicates quality risks, status, trends, and recommendations clearly to stakeholders at all levels, enabling proactive decision making.

Principal Digital Quality Manager, Cat Foresight

Communications

• Collaborate with internal stakeholders and advise on the suitability of approaches for communication efforts.
• Track and analyze metrics to measure the effectiveness of internal communications.
• Assist in the planning and creation of content for employee communication channels; ensuring that messaging and branding are consistent across all channels.
• Develop and distribute communications materials, such as written communications, presentation materials, etc. to deliver key messages.

Corporate Intern – Communications

Learning and Development

• Counsel the business on employee and/or labor relations challenges to ensure high-performing teams and an inclusive environment.
• Deploy recruitment solutions to increase the diversity of workforce composition.
• Identify talent and create visibility and awareness to enable a cross-functional talent pipeline for the enterprise.
• Comprehensive HR data analysis to identify insights to make better decisions and drive efficiencies for the business.

Human Resources Professional Development Program

IT Support

• Create detailed negotiation strategies, including points of leverage, identification of all deal variables, and development of appropriate counteroffers.
• Working with 3rd party advisory firms to enhance Caterpillar’s market intelligence and negotiation strategies.
• Advise internal customers on the negotiation plan and gain alignment on strategy, timing, and process steps.
• Negotiate directly with Caterpillar’s technology suppliers to minimize risk and maximize value for the acquisition of SaaS, software, hardware, telecommunications, cloud, and related professional services.
• Provide thought leadership and sourcing subject matter expertise to internal IT/Business customers and matrix partners.
• Engage with internal customers and suppliers to support resolution of varying complexity disputes, and other matters requiring a balance of assertiveness, tact, business acumen, and diplomacy.
• Partner with finance to analyze deal financials and impact to annual budget processes.
• Achieve annual savings targets and other performance metrics as assigned.
• Partner with internal matrix partners such as finance, procurement, legal, etc. on negotiations and continuous process improvement.
• Establish a forward-looking demand for contract renewals and net new initiatives.
• Develop and administer frequent communications and discussions to maintain awareness and monitor progress for such demand.
• Conduct Supplier spend analysis on a regular basis to identify opportunities across our suppliers and organization.

Vendor Management Specialist – IT Negotiator

Data Engineer

• Design, document, deploy, and manage Data Center Network solutions through all phases of lifecycle management for Cisco ACI & Nexus equipment and Radware Load Balancers deployed at enterprise hosting locations and local facilities.
• Support infrastructure and deployment projects across multiple regions and locations.
• Partner with hardware, software, and vendor teams on the development of data center solutions.
• Provide project participation, advice, and counsel to IT personnel, management, and project teams on various aspects of enterprise Data Center Network hardware and software.
• Establish and implement global security and operational best practices and adhere to IT Controls.
• Adhere to IT Service Management processes, instruction, and procedural documentation.
• Work with application support teams/customer/operations management to develop plans to minimize the technical and/or business impact of network environment changes.
• Participate in an on-call rotation to support the global datacenter network infrastructure 24x7.
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and resolve complex problems within the enterprise Data Center networks.

Senior Data Center Network Engineer

Supply Chain

• You’ll join a team with diverse project responsibilities and have valuable networking opportunities with all levels of Caterpillar employees.
• The internship is a 40-hour-per-week assignment lasting 12 weeks.
• Supply Chain: Analyzes and maintains assigned processes that produce output excellence, builds expertise for the assigned process area, and contributing to continuous improvement efforts.
• Logistics: Continuous improvements for logistics processes to maximize efficiency and productivity, evaluating logistics processes and workflows, conducting root cause analysis, and implementing corrective actions for process-related concerns.
• Planning, Demand, & Orders: Participates in analyses to support businesses, determine sales and product demand supporting the sales and operations process, ensures availability of inventory for assigned products.

Summer Corporate Intern – Supply Chain

General

• You’ll join a team with diverse project responsibilities and have valuable networking opportunities with all levels of Caterpillar employees.
• The internship is a 40-hour-per-week assignment lasting 12 weeks.
• Responsible and accountable for enhancements and modifications to equipment and processes in our facilities, monitoring equipment and process reliability.
• Analyzing non-conformance data and maintaining quality system documentation.
• Collecting and researching data on customer experience with robotic platforms.

Corporate Intern – Manufacturing

Product Manager

• Works as a member of a Scrum Team to help maximize the value of the product and the work of the Scrum Development Team
• Create and manage the Product Backlog and to ensure everyone knows the priorities of the Product Backlog
• Responsible for maximizing the value of the product and the work of the Development Team
• Communicate Product Backlog priorities to the team
• Act as the key decision-maker regarding what features the product will have
• Responsible for the vision of what is to be built, and conveying that vision to the team
• Assists with the elaboration of epics, themes and features into user stories that are small enough, or granular enough, to be achieved in a single sprint
• Work closely with key stakeholders throughout the organization
• Responsible for making decisions on release dates and content
• Participate in Daily Scrum as needed
• Participate in Sprint Planning meetings, Reveals and Retrospectives
• Inspect the product progress at the end of every Sprint and accept or reject the work that has been done by the Development Team
• Act as the voice of the team, communicating status externally
• Be a good role model of Scrum values; understand the framework and the roles of each team member
• Be a champion for the agile community and help to further the community within the organization

Senior Digital Product Owner

Support Engineer

• Provide leadership and technical direction to resolve complex technical issues impacting the product and its integration into the customer system.
• Lead Continuous Product Improvement (CPI) projects to investigate and resolve product and process issues affecting Caterpillar Electric Power product.
• Complete root cause analysis and develop interim and permanent corrective actions to resolve complex product health issues.
• Develop appropriate procedures and plans to ensure product quality and evaluate results to identify functional deficiencies.
• Correct design flaws as needed.
• Evaluate production processes to identify defects in manufacturing and design.
• Modify designs to maximize production efficiency and product quality.
• Solicit and gather internal and external feedback to identify potential new products and/or improvements to existing products that improve product serviceability.
• Write technical specifications and instructions to ensure product quality and performance.
• Track and manage the status of projects from inception to release.

Senior Product Support Engineer

Procurement

• Professionals within the program will complete three 12-month rotations, which are defined based on business needs.
• Responsible for directing the development, and/or communication and implementation of a site, regional, or worldwide sourcing strategy.
• Manages supply network procurement related activities for a facility to deliver procurement excellence and integration between Procurement organization and the team supporting Facility / Divisional Leaders.
• Responsible for collaboration and advisement for assigned supply base to provide technical expertise and leadership in the execution of a robust quality plan within the supplier network.
• Analyzes and maintains assigned processes that produce output excellence, builds expertise for the assigned process area, and contributing to continuous improvement efforts.
• Leads project management of process improvement, process development, and process execution for Procurement team.

Leadership & Technical Development Program – Procurement

• You’ll join a team with diverse project responsibilities and have valuable networking opportunities with all levels of Caterpillar employees.
• The internship is a 40-hour-per-week assignment lasting 12 weeks.
• You can focus on building professional abilities in roles including Category Buyer, Facility Procurement Professional, Supplier Development Engineer, and Procurement Professional.

Summer Corporate Intern – Procurement

• Develop a public affairs plan aligned to our corporate narrative that positions Caterpillar’s advanced technology story to key stakeholder audiences
• Develop content focused on innovation and advanced technology leadership, including op-eds, contributed articles and for owned channels, including web and social, as well as other materials
• Identify and develop opportunities and stories that highlight Caterpillar’s intellectual property, patents and innovation pipeline, as well as highlighting the people behind those stories
• In partnership with legal and our engineering team, lead development of innovation-focused awards submissions, including researching opportunities, drafting submissions and securing approvals
• Identify speaking and thought leadership opportunities, developing talking points, briefing materials and messaging for executives and subject matter leaders
• Identify and engage with media, influencers and stakeholders to help amplify Caterpillar’s innovation stories
• Draft proactive and reactive statements and supporting materials as needed
• Serve as a general media contact for a variety of Caterpillar-related stories and issues as needed, including supporting events and media engagements as needed
• Collaborate with the enterprise media team to ensure innovation narratives are integrated into broader media and communications efforts
• Measure and present Caterpillar’s results, as well as those of our competitors

Public Affairs Manager

• Own the Parts & Catalog Experience roadmap, focused on helping customers clearly understand products and choose the right part
• Improve how product information is organized, grouped, and differentiated so customers can quickly identify what is relevant to their need
• Ensure product information flows reliably from PIM into parts.cat.com (PCC), with consistency and accuracy across systems
• Translate customer confusion, data insights, and stakeholder input into clear, prioritized product improvements
• Drive resolution of issues that impact purchase accuracy, decision speed, and customer confidence
• Ensure catalog experiences support regional and multi-language needs, so customers see relevant and understandable information
• Lead the end‑to‑end scrum process, setting a clear agenda for engineering and UX partners while driving alignment with stakeholders to drive progress

Parts Catalog Product Manager

Human Resources

• HR interns at Caterpillar will perform challenging work while being exposed to a variety of HR functions within CAT.
• We work with our teams to ensure that every intern gains the appropriate professional and personal growth necessary to be successful in the corporate environment.
• Our interns are placed in a variety of HR specialties and locations.

Summer Corporate Intern – Human Resources

Account Executive

• Manages customers' relationships to market company products and services and assists in the development of sales capability.
• Develop and maintain effective internal partner relationships and relationships with regional customers so that sales objectives can be achieved.
• Establish relationships with business decision makers and identify business needs and problems.
• Work with senior management to develop and implement market strategies for customers as well as securing commitment of SPM Oil & Gas resources to assure continued customer satisfaction.
• Consult with various departments within SPM Oil & Gas regarding the direction and strategies that key industry leaders will be adopting in the future.
• Travel in the field to monitor and resolve issues regarding customer satisfaction and future product needs.
• Take steps necessary to assure product health in order to maintain and enhance PINS growth.
• Ensure that regional decision makers have been fully exposed to the features/ benefits available from SPM Oil & Gas products.
• Communicate effectively across product, industry, and/or customer audiences to gain understanding and acceptance of ideas and recommendations.
• Work with people from many different backgrounds and cultures, internally and externally, with the appropriate influence and ability to resolve differences.
• Make regular visits to customer and job locations.