Manufacturing/Distribution Engineer

Caterpillar Inc.•Peoria, IL

2d•Onsite

About The Position

Caterpillar's Earthmoving Division is seeking a Manufacturing/Distribution Engineer to join the Global Supply Chain Center of Excellence (SC COE) team. This role is crucial in providing operations and value chain solutions that transform product strategy into reality. The engineer will lead initiatives to enhance agility, flexibility, and visibility across the network, ensuring the highest standards of safety, quality, velocity, and cost-competitiveness in product delivery. Key contributions will also involve product distribution, availability, and late product differentiation throughout business cycles. This position requires collaboration with a diverse, geographically dispersed team to achieve OPACC results.

Requirements

Manufacturing Engineering: Knowledge of functions, principles and techniques used in product manufacturing; ability to develop and implement strategies, practices and tools for controlling the whole processes.
Project Management: Knowledge of effective project management strategies and tactics; ability to plan, organize, monitor, and control projects, ensuring efficient utilization of technical and administrative resources to achieve project objectives.
Decision Making and Critical Thinking: Knowledge of the decision-making process and associated tools and techniques; ability to accurately analyze situations and reach productive decisions based on informed judgment.
Quality & Change Management: Basic knowledge of the processes, practices and systems used in product quality issue and design change management.
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.
Strategic Thinking: Knowledge of the importance of "big picture" thinking and planning; ability to apply organizational acumen and competitiveness to identify and maintain focus on key success factors for the organization.

Nice To Haves

Experience in Manufacturing Engineering, Operations, Supply Chain and/or Quality
CPS, Six Sigma Black Belt or project management experience
Previous experience with or exposure to Earthmoving products
Experience as a strong collaborator including interpersonal and negotiation skills to drive common processes across multiple EPC facilities within a product.
Superior analytical and problem-solving skills, and the ability to creatively solve very complex problems
Caterpillar Product knowledge

Responsibilities

Implement distribution solutions in alignment with the product strategy.
Manage the deployment of projects centered around OPACC Improvement Agenda (OIA) as applicable.
Develop and coordinate projects from strategy to execution regarding product distribution.
Work with Global Transportation and Logistics teams to implement transportation and logistics solutions that impact product manufacturing, quality, cost, and availability.
Lead collaboration and communication across multiple business division functions, which may include implementing changes to product Value Add work and assembly processes.
Develop assembly and validation standards for Value Add work performed within the product distribution and storage process.
Coordinate quality and engineering change management regarding EMD product offerings distributed through the EPCs (Equipment Processing Centers).