Lifecycle Specialist

Caterpillar•Irving, TX

2d•Onsite

About The Position

Cat Technology collaborates with partners across the Caterpillar enterprise to advance technologies including autonomy and automation, which helps enhance site safety, productivity and efficiency across customer operations worldwide. Cat Technology also owns enterprise-wide initiatives in innovation, research and development, manufacturing automation and advanced materials, ensuring Caterpillar continues to lead the industry in technological excellence and engineering innovation. The Lifecycle Specialist coordinates the implementation of engineering changes for current production aftermarket products, managing inventory transitions, part obsolescence, and new part introductions across the supply chain. This role partners with Engineering, Operations, Product Support, and Distribution teams to plan and execute rework activities, minimize scrap and inventory risk, control costs, and ensure customer delivery commitments are maintained throughout the product lifecycle.

Requirements

Accuracy and Attention to Detail: Understanding the necessity and value of accuracy; ability to complete tasks with high levels of precision.
Data Gathering & Analysis: Knowledge of data gathering and analysis tools, techniques, and processes; ability to collect and synthesize data from a variety of stakeholders and sources in an objective manner to reach a conclusion, goal, or judgment.
Inventory Management - MFG: Knowledge of processes and methods of inventory management; ability to effectively manage local or distributed inventories of raw materials, work-in-progress and finished goods.
Problem Solving: Knowledge of approaches, tools, techniques for recognizing, anticipating, and resolving organizational, operational or process problems; ability to apply knowledge of problem solving appropriately to diverse situations.
Service Excellence: Knowledge of customer service concepts and techniques; ability to meet or exceed customer needs and expectations and provide excellent service in a direct or indirect manner.

Nice To Haves

Process Improvement: Understanding and insight into evaluating current product quality and production methods and ability to maintains focus on the continuous improvement of processes, products and services.
Effectiveness Measurement: Knowledge of effective measurement techniques and ability to measure the quality and quantity of work effort for the purpose of improvement.
Standard Operating Procedures: Knowledge of established standard operating procedures (SOP); ability to design, implement and evaluate standard operating procedures affecting daily and strategic business operations in order to increase operational efficiency.
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
Product knowledge of earthmoving equipment and excavators
Prior collaboration experience with global teams

Responsibilities

Coordinating the implementation of engineering changes for current production aftermarket products.
Managing inventory transitions, part obsolescence, and new part introductions across the supply chain.
Partnering with Engineering, Operations, Product Support, and Distribution teams to plan and execute rework activities.
Minimizing scrap and inventory risk.
Controlling costs and ensuring customer delivery commitments are maintained throughout the product lifecycle.
Identifying, defining, and implementing integrated supply chain solutions and performance improvements, including building internal and external alliances to explore opportunities.
Establishing effective linkages, partnerships, and best practices with business partners and internal functions.
Investigating and incorporating industry benchmarks, metrics and best practices to develop optimal supply chains for suppliers and/or product sets.
Developing and analyzing data and information to identify and prioritize opportunities for improving performance and creating more cost-effective supply chains, inventory utilization, and business partnerships.