Caterpillar is building a new advanced manufacturing facility in Sanford, North Carolina, and the Facilities Project Civil Engineer role supports the civil side of that effort from early requirements through delivery and operational handoff. You will coordinate technical integration across stakeholders to help ensure the facility is constructible, compliant, and ready for safe, high-quality production.
In this onsite position, you will guide civil facilities engineering work, partner with internal teams and external engineering providers, and help manage acceptance testing, commissioning, and startup planning as the project transitions into operations.
Key Responsibilities
- Review, challenge, and approve technical drawings, specifications, calculations, design packages, and design changes from external engineering partners.
- Confirm the technical scope is accurate, constructible, compliant, and aligned with operational needs.
- Manage scope, schedules, estimates, risks, changes, action items, commissioning plans, and operational readiness.
- Coordinate decisions and deliverables across internal functions, engineering partners, contractors, suppliers, utilities, and regulatory authorities.
- Resolve issues using containment, root cause analysis, corrective action, testing, verification, and documented closure.
- Translate evolving manufacturing requirements into facility designs, technical standards, utility strategies, acceptance criteria, and scalable solutions.
- Integrate connected facility technologies, including building management systems, utility monitoring, advanced metering, sensors, automated controls, alarms, equipment connectivity, and condition-monitoring data.
- Use building information modeling and digital coordination, along with system data, commissioning records, and readiness metrics, to identify conflicts and support improved startup performance.
- Coordinate planning and execution of acceptance testing, system energization, integrated systems testing, commissioning, turnover, and startup.
- Provide concise verbal and written progress updates to leadership covering integration status, key decisions, emerging risks, cross-functional dependencies, and required actions.
- Lead development of site and facility infrastructure, including civil systems, utilities, drainage, transportation access, and building interfaces.
- Coordinate utility networks, security systems, telecommunications, site lighting, digital technologies, and future expansion planning.
- Drive permitting, construction execution, commissioning, and issue resolution to support operational readiness and successful project delivery.
Required Qualifications
- Working knowledge of relevant civil, structural, utility, and manufacturing interfaces.
- Ability to evaluate external engineering work, ask informed questions, and make sound approval decisions.
- Ability to lead engineering work across multiple functional areas and across external firms, contractors, and internal partners while managing technical dependencies and system integration.
- Ability to evaluate developing technical and business information, assess alternatives and consequences, and recommend practical solutions that support launch and long-term operations.
- Ability to organize work into actionable steps, anticipate bottlenecks, align cross-discipline dependencies, and maintain focus on construction, commissioning, and production-readiness milestones.
- Ability to align technical and business stakeholders, including internal functions, engineering partners, consultants, contractors, suppliers, utilities, and regulatory authorities.
- Ability to understand internal customer requirements and respond with urgency, ownership, and practical solutions as operations transition from project delivery into production.
- Strong knowledge of structured troubleshooting methods and the ability to drive complete, sustainable solutions across complex, connected, multi-vendor systems.
Technologies
- Building information modeling (BIM)
- Building management systems
- Utility monitoring
- Advanced metering
- Sensors
- Automated controls
- Alarms
- Equipment connectivity
- Condition-monitoring data
- Digital coordination
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
Top Candidate Profile
- Demonstrated experience supporting facilities, building systems, or industrial engineering projects.
- Demonstrated executive-level written and verbal communication skills, including translating complex engineering and integration topics into clear progress updates, risks, decisions, and recommended actions for leadership.
- Experience supporting an advanced manufacturing facility, plant startup, major expansion, or complex capital program from early design through operational handoff.
- Professional Engineer (PE) licensure.
- Experience with LEED requirements or certification.
- Experience working within facilities with high standards related to overall building conditions, environmental stewardship, safe work practices, and continuous improvement.
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering.
Location: Sanford, North Carolina (onsite). Work arrangement is onsite, five days per week, with possible location flexibility between temporary offices while transitioning to the new facility.
Travel: A high percentage of travel (50-75%) may be required at certain times during construction planning, supplier reviews, equipment installation, commissioning, startup, and production ramp-up.
Schedule: A demanding and very rewarding role requiring schedule flexibility to meet project requirements.
Relocation: US domestic relocation is available. Visa Sponsorship: Not available.
Salary: USD 128,470 - 192,710 per year.
Posting dates: October 23, 2026 - November 5, 2026.
