
Lead Digital Project Manager
Caterpillar Inc.
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Office
Location: Peoria • Illinois • Texas • United States
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Salary
💰 $128,470 - $192,710 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Drive project cadence and delivery, ensuring milestones and dependencies stay on track
- Model exceptional communication and stakeholder engagement, providing clear updates, decisions, and alignment across cross‑functional teams
- Drive team accountability, reinforcing commitments, removing blockers, and maintaining focus on outcomes
- Maintain high organizational discipline, managing backlogs, schedules, risks, and documentation in alignment with PMO standards
- Facilitate cross‑functional collaboration, building strong relationships across business, technical, and partner teams
- Balance servant leadership and project control, coaching the team while also guiding priorities, timelines, and scope
- Design, implement, and reinforce delivery processes and standards that improve efficiency, strengthen predictability, and ensure consistent alignment with PMO practices across the program
Requirements
- Extensive experience in program/project management concepts including project charters, scheduling and milestones, scope management, risk/issue management, governance and reporting
- Thorough understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and proven experience applying agile methodologies (Scrum, SAFe)
- Proven ability to engage stakeholders and communicate effectively, with a strong emphasis on cross-functional collaboration.
- Strong leadership presence, able to motivate teams, hold them accountable to commitments, and drive clarity and momentum in ambiguous situations.
- Strong cross‑functional collaborator, comfortable navigating multiple partners (internal and external) and resolving issues that span business, product, and engineering.
- Highly organized, detail‑driven, and structured, with a track record of managing backlogs, schedules, risks, and dependencies across multiple teams.
- Demonstrated experience building or refining delivery processes, with the ability to create predictable, efficient, and scalable ways of working that align to PMO standards
- Proficiency with Azure DevOps (ADO) and experience with tools such as Confluence, Miro and Aha!
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision benefits*
- Paid time off plan (Vacation, Holidays, Volunteer, etc.)*
- 401(k) savings plans*
- Health Savings Account (HSA)*
- Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)*
- Health Lifestyle Programs*
- Employee Assistance Program*
- Voluntary Benefits and Employee Discounts*
- Career Development*
- Incentive bonus*
- Disability benefits
- Life Insurance
- Parental leave
- Adoption benefits
- Tuition Reimbursement
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
project managementagile methodologiesScrumSAFeSoftware Development Life Cycle (SDLC)risk managementscope managementgovernancereportingdelivery processes
Soft skills
communicationstakeholder engagementteam accountabilityorganizational disciplinecross-functional collaborationservant leadershipmotivational leadershipproblem-solvingdetail-orientedstructured thinking