Career Area:

Product Support

Job Description:

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Job Summary:

As a Product Support Manager, you will report to the Hydraulic Mining Shovel (HMS) Product Value Stream Manager, and be primarily responsible to provide in-depth technical support and lead problem solving and quality implementation efforts for the HMS product line. As the leader of the Product Support team, you will need to have a growth mindset, promote continuous improvement, and help build a defect-free culture. We have a fabulous team that does some of the most exciting work at Caterpillar, and we can’t wait for you to join the team!

What you will do: (this section is completely customizable too)

• Set challenging performance goals and provide daily leadership to staff of 17 to 20 employees who are actively engaged in delivering customer uptime

• Reporting to the incumbent are product service engineers, CPI Supervisor and Lifecycle Supervisor.

• Determine service level standards for customer service requests for HMS.

• Provide guidance and answer technical questions for complex issues and procedures or handle technical problems with customers' products.

• Prioritize and implement product improvements related to customer issues and manage cost impact.

• Implement service strategies to improve repairability and maintenance.

• Develop in-depth knowledge of organizational products and programs, as well as capabilities of team members within the department.

• Lead a large portfolio of CPI projects from development to resolution.

What Skills you will have:

Customer Focus: Knowledge of the values and practices that align customer needs and satisfaction as primary considerations in all business decisions and ability to leverage that information in creating customized customer solutions.
Level Extensive Experience:
• Facilitates creation of the 'right' products and services to resolve customer business issues.
• Fosters strong customer relationships via delivery on commitments, open communication, and on-going feedback/improvement.
• Advises others on creating customer focused environments in various scenarios.
• Anticipates customer needs, focusing efforts to proactively meet needs and exceed customer expectations.
• Measures and observes customer satisfaction levels to ascertain and implement service improvement alternatives.
• Communicates and models the criticality of customer focus as an organizational strategy.

Service Excellence: 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.
Level Extensive Experience:
• Anticipates customers' needs and satisfies them proactively.
• Resolves complex customer complaints or problems.
• Teaches others how to deliver excellent customer service in a variety of settings.
• Applies the concept of 'Moments of Truth' to customer service.
• Participates in developing a variety of effective ways to deal with difficult customers.
• Recovers from a service failure in a way that enhances customer's esteem of the organization.

Problem Solving: Knowledge 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.
Level Extensive Experience:
• Ensures capture of lessons to be learned from a problem-solving effort.
• Organizes potential problem solvers and leads problem resolution efforts.
• Uses varying problem-solving approaches and techniques as appropriate.
• Contributes to standard practices for problem-solving approaches, tools, and processes.
• Analyzes and synthesizes information and devises alternative resolution strategies.
• Develops successful resolutions to critical or wide-impact problems.

Relationship Management: Knowledge of relationship management techniques; ability to establish and maintain healthy working relationships with clients, vendors, and peers.
Level Extensive Experience:
• Communicates to clients regarding expectations of all parties.
• Participates in negotiating the terms of the business relationship.
• Conducts periodic reviews of work effort, progress, issues, and successes.
• Maintains productive, long-term relationships with clients or vendors.
• Creates opportunities to educate support teams on client priorities.
• Empowers others to establish collaborative, healthy relationships.

Top Candidates will also have:

• Proven leadership experience in a Caterpillar

• Excellent communication skills (written, oral and presentation)

• Proven ability to engage a team and skills for effective collaboration with various internal and external partners

• Self-starting individual with high motivation to produce a high-quality product

• Strong ability to apply engineering principles to quickly solve complex technical problems

• Results oriented person with flexibility to accommodate a fast paced and everchanging environment

Additional Information:

The primary location for this position is Tucson, AZ.

Domestic relocation assistance is available.

This position may require 25% travel.

Sponsorship is not available.

What you will get:

Our goal at Caterpillar is for you to have a rewarding career. Our teams are critical to the success of our customers who build a better world.

Here you earn more than just wage, because we value your performance, we offer a total rewards package that provides:

• Competitive Base Salary

• Annual incentive bonus plan*

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage

• Paid time off plan (Vacation, Holiday, Volunteer, Etc.)

• 401k savings plan

• Health savings account (HSA)

• Flexible spending accounts (FSAs)

• Short and long-term disability coverage

• Life Insurance

• Paid parental leave

• Healthy Lifestyle Programs

• Employee Assistance Programs

• Voluntary Benefits (Ex. Accident, Identity Theft Protection)

*Subject to annual eligibility and incentive plan guidelines.

Final details:

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Posting Dates:

July 31, 2024 - August 11, 2024

Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen.

EEO/AA Employer. All qualified individuals - Including minorities, females, veterans and individuals with disabilities - are encouraged to apply.

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