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Robert T. Williams is vice president of Caterpillar Inc. with responsibility for U.S. Operations Division. This includes all manufacturing operations in Aurora, Illinois; Decatur, Illinois; East Peoria, Illinois and Ffocus Ffacilities in Franklin, North Carolina, Toccoa, Georgia and Danville Kentucky. The division manufactures motor graders, wheel tractor scrapers, large mining and quarry & aggregate trucks, hydraulic excavators, wheel loaders, track-type tractors, pipelayers, undercarriage systems and various machine components.
In his most recent position prior to being named vice president by the Caterpillar Board of Directors, Williams was director of manufacturing research and development in Caterpillar's Technology and Solutions Division. He began his Caterpillar career in 1966 as a machinist apprentice in East Peoria. He became a shop foreman in 1974 and went on to a series of leadership positions in manufacturing and technology. In 1989, he became a factory manager in the Track-Type Tractors Division. He moved to Decatur in 1993 to assume the role of technical resources manager in the Mining & Construction Equipment Division. Williams became the general manager of Mapleton foundry operations for the Performance Engine Products Division in 1998. He was appointed director of manufacturing in the Operations Support and Technology Department of the Technical Services Division in 2002. He assumed his current role in 2004.
He graduated from Caterpillar's Machinist Apprentice Program in 1970 and attended the Caterpillar Advanced Management Program in 1996. He completed the Global Management for Engineers Executive Program at the Carnegie Bosch Institute of Carnegie Mellon's Tepper School of Business in 2003. | 