Batteries Value Chain Engineering Senior Manager

Caterpillar Inc.•Mossville, IL

3d•Onsite

About The Position

Join our E&ES team as a Batteries Value Chain Engineering Senior Manager, leading efforts in the rapidly evolving battery space. This role will drive strategies for battery cells, modules, and packs, building a strong network of suppliers and creating innovative solutions to meet technology and speed challenges. Ideal candidates bring supply chain expertise, strong collaboration skills, and a curiosity-driven mindset to connect teams and deliver high-performance results.

Requirements

Business Acumen: Extensive experience and knowledge of business concepts, tools, and processes that are needed for making sound decisions in the context of the company's business; ability to apply this knowledge appropriately to diverse situations. Requires a deep knowledge of the battery industry and the related supply chain environment.
Planning: Tactical, Strategic: Extensive experience and knowledge of effective planning techniques and ability to contribute to operational (short term), tactical (1-2 years) and strategic (3-5 years) planning in support of the overall business plan.
Process Management: Extensive experience and knowledge of business process improvement tools and techniques; ability to understand, monitor, update, control, or enhance existing business or work processes.
Decision Making and Critical Thinking: Expert experience and knowledge of the decision-making process and associated tools and techniques; ability to accurately analyze situations and reach productive decisions based on informed judgment.
Industrial Engineering - MFG: Working knowledge of industrial engineering processes, techniques and methods; ability to design and implement various processes and support infrastructures that safely realize a desired objective or invention.
Strategic Sourcing: Extensive experience and knowledge of strategic sourcing methods, technologies and processes; ability to analyze, improve and re-evaluate organizational procurement process continuously.

Nice To Haves

Previous engineering experience or understanding of the engineering process

Responsibilities

Manages staffing, development, and performance management programs for value chain engineering teams; developing project and coaching team leaders.
Designs and implements the end-to-end value chain for a product with a keen focus on inventory, assurance of supply, cost and quality
Manages high-impact, long duration value chain engineering continuous improvement initiatives and projects; ensuring achievement of engineering plan and product quality.
Manages risk and recovery related to foreseeable and unforeseeable value chain disruptions.