Career Area:

Human Resources

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.

Role Definition
Manages a team to identify, recruit, select and place qualified candidates for management, professional and technical positions. Develops and implements recruitment programs. Works closely with the TA Leadership to ensure compliance and adoption of leading practices.

Responsibilities
• Directing, motivating and developing staff, maximizing individual contributions and supporting professional growth.
• Managing recruitment programs; implementing improvements to staffing processes, including sourcing and selection.
• Developing recruitment best practices which support the organization's goals and direction.
• Working with management to ensure the timely understanding of current and future workforce needs; evaluating and providing advice on these needs.

Skill Descriptors
Effectiveness Measurement: Knowledge of effective measurement techniques and ability to measure the quality and quantity of work effort for the purpose of improvement. Level Working Knowledge:
• Under guidance, reports measurement results in actionable form to management.
• Interprets and analyzes results vs. established benchmarks.
• Establishes short-range and long-range improvement goals for own function.
• Uses assigned measurements for own function or specialization.
• Under guidance, develops action plans to achieve those goals.

Process Management: Knowledge of business process improvement tools and techniques; ability to understand, monitor, update, control, or enhance existing business or work processes.
Level Working Knowledge:
• Employs process flows, cycle time, process time and waste concepts as appropriate.
• Walks through steps, decisions, measurements, dependencies and hand-offs for a specific process.
• Creates process flow or work flow diagrams.
• Documents types of process decisions and potential impact of each decision.
• Identifies and monitors common process bottlenecks.

Influencing: Knowledge of effective influencing tactics and strategies; ability to impact decisions within and outside own organization.
Level Extensive Experience:
• Achieves influence and impact even when holding a position contrary to the majority.
• Discards examples of persuasive arguments lacking substance or impact.
• Leads and presents collaborative assessments that persuasively influence decision makers.
• Advises on techniques to build rapport and commitment to common purpose.
• Determines and leverages the decision-making style of the individual or group being influenced.
• Delivers well-received presentations of cost, benefits, risks, and other considerations.

Customer/Market Focus: Understanding of the importance of remaining aware of shifting market priorities and ability to respond to internal and external customer needs in a manner that consistently adds value.
Level Extensive Experience:
• Implements improvements to methods for maintaining customer responsiveness.
• Recommends new products and services based on changing customer needs and success criteria.
• Responds proactively to market and competitive shifts so as to maintain advantage.
• Delivers superior customer value consistently and within targets.
• Negotiates successful outcomes on behalf of difficult or dissatisfied customers.
• Coaches others to improve focus on the customer.

Leadership: Knowledge of leadership practices and processes; ability to use strategies and skills to enlist others in setting, embracing and achieving objectives while having a long-term perspective of the future state of things and how to get there.
Level Working Knowledge:
• Utilizes an appropriate style of leadership: autocratic, democratic, laissez-faire/free rein, etc.
• Utilizes positive reinforcement to motivate & attain desired behaviors; increases productivity.
• Demonstrates leadership qualities: intelligence, dominance, persistence, integrity, confidence.
• Employs leadership theories, such as contingency and transactional, and associated techniques.
• Manages own behaviors during interactions, such as feedback giving, to shape workplace events.

Recruitment Channel Management: Knowledge of the benefit, selection, implementation, and operation of various recruitment channels (e.g., computer databases, Internet recruiting resources, cold calls, media, recruiting firms and employee referrals); ability to use appropriate channels to achieve objectives of organizational talent strategy.
Level Extensive Experience:
• Coaches others on the selection of cost-effective suppliers or service providers for job recruitment.
• Advises on how to select appropriate recruitment channels to fill different job vacancies.
• Monitors and updates the guidelines and standards for recruitment channel selection to others.
• Evaluates the effectiveness of recruiting via recruiting firms and Internet job sites.
• Controls yearly budgets related to recruitment channels development and maintenance.
• Oversees the alignment of recruitment channel management with recruitment strategies.

Staffing and Recruiting: Knowledge of standards, processes, techniques and methods used in staffing and recruiting; ability to identify, select, retain and relocate qualified personnel, both internally and externally, for a wide range of positions.
Level Extensive Experience:
• Resolves complex problems in the recruiting and staffing processes for various positions.
• Facilitates the utilization of recruiting and retention best practices and benchmarking.
• Evaluates the effectiveness of current recruiting system, techniques and methods.
• Consults on all aspects (e.g. relocation or recruiting) of the staffing process.
• Coaches others on staffing for multiple functions or departments in the organization.
• Monitors the staffing marketplace and competitive environment.

Workforce Analytics: Knowledge of human resources (HR) and workforce issues and trends; ability to analyze workforce data, information and metrics and apply the results to support business decisions.
Level Working Knowledge:
• Gathers data and conducts research to monitor workforce trends.
• Follows policies and standards to measure workforce performance.
• Generates reports to senior colleagues to support ad hoc projects and dashboards.
• Implements appropriate analytical tools and applications in workforce project operations.
• Reports problems that arise in the workforce data collection process.

This Job Description is intended as a general guide to the job duties for this position and is intended for the purpose of establishing the specific salary grade. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as an exhaustive summary of all responsibilities, duties and effort required of employees assigned to this job. At the discretion of management, this description may be changed at any time to address the evolving needs of the organization. It is expressly not intended to be a comprehensive list of ”essential job functions” as that term is defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act.

This position requires working onsite five days a week.

Relocation is available for this position. Visa Sponsorship is not available for this position.

Posting Dates:

July 16, 2026 - July 29, 2026

Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants of any age are encouraged to apply

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